england – Page 7 – Meditations

December 16, 2017

Denton Castle

When one goes to investigate a place which no longer exists, the sense of self must be strong and rooted in the present. It…

December 5, 2017

Bodiam. The name had been in my mind for a long while by the time I got around to visiting this place. I think…

December 2, 2017

The Norman keep, located within a larger Roman-era settlement, is another one of the places which I managed to visit at a very poor…

November 25, 2017

The new house at Scotney (vis-a-vis the old one) is not the most remarkable of country houses to visit although the obvious reason to…

November 21, 2017

My first look at the Old Castle in Scotney, as they call it, was one of wonder and beauty. It looked absolutely amazing in…

November 19, 2017

Caister-on-the-Sea is regrettably one of those places which has not survived very well — though one can scarcely say that after fifteen centuries or…

November 16, 2017

I didn’t actually get to step into this one. I went there early this morning, hoping to go by the place before work and…

August 20, 2017

No, not the one in St Petersburg. Nor the one in Perthshire. The Hermitage in the Borders is what we’re talking about today… Oh…

July 17, 2017

Moving southwards on the coast, there’s Dunstanburgh. Or, rather, what was Dunstanburgh. With the castle being so closely tied to the fate of its…

July 15, 2017

I wish I could say I visited Bebbanburgh, but regrettably as yet we can still travel only in space and not in time. If…