Abbey or Cathedral – Page 4

Ely Cathedral

2018-05-26 Thom Bedford 2018-05-26 - Cambridge

Arrival Date: 2018-05-25
Departure Date: 2018-05-28
Accommodation: Premier Inn, Cambridge City East, Cambridge

For our first year Wedding Anniversary weekend, we decided on a trip to Cambridge, as we’ve not explored much of East Anglia before. We set off on the Friday night after work, arriving at our hotel at around 10pm. The Premier Inn stood in a retail park around a 30 minute walk from Cambridge city centre, it’s a basic hotel room, but is has all the essentials.

Bubble and Squeak, Drogheda, and Returning to Home Soil

2018-04-13 Thom Bedford 2018-04-09 - Dublin

Continued from Part 4…

Our last morning in Dublin started like the others, with a big breakfast and saying hello to the lobby birds, but then we packed up and checked out early on to have one last adventure before heading to the ferry. We said goodbye to Bubble and Squeak (the lobby birds), and set off in the car.

A Cheeky Monkey and the Rock of Cashel

2018-04-11 Thom Bedford 2018-04-09 - Dublin

Continued from Part 2…

This morning after a quick trip to the local shopping centre for some essentials, we set off to visit Phoenix Park and Dublin Zoo which is less than 15 minutes from our hotel. Phoenix Park is the biggest inner-city park in Europe, and it is definitely very big, it’d probably take around an hour to walk from one side to the other.

Carlow, Kilkenny, Castles, Cathedrals, and Consuls

2018-04-10 Thom Bedford 2018-04-09 - Dublin

Continued from Part 1…

Today we learnt that a huge number of the roads around and heading away from Dublin were built in the last 10 years, so according to the satnav in my car we spent most of the day driving through fields! Since it’s Helen’s birthday today, we started by visiting an Inglot shop (a high-end makeup brand) in Ireland’s largest shopping centre (that’s about a quarter of the size of the Trafford Centre for comparison).

Dublin, Our First Trip to Ireland

2018-04-09 Thom Bedford 2018-04-09 - Dublin

Arrival Date: 2018-04-09
Departure Date: 2018-04-13
Accommodation: Crowne Plaza, Blanchardstown, Dublin

Our first trip abroad together (and my first time abroad in well over a decade) started with a drive to Holyhead in Anglesey, a short ferry ride across to Dublin, and a quick loop around Dublin to our hotel. The ferry was small but fast (only taking around 2.5 hours to cross the Irish Sea), the water was very calm, but out on deck it was extremely windy!