Donna Maree Hanson, Author and PhD Candidate

Sorry life intervened since the last post. Too many hassles, work, family, you name it I dodged it not so successfully. So where were we? York I believe.So in York we went to Leeds, to the Royal Armories, then  Nottingham and Bath. It was not much more than five weeks ago and now it’s minus temperatures and lots of snow. The poor peeps.

So to the Armories. Lot’s of armour and stuff, lots of photos.

Nottingham and caves.

Then a quick trip to Chatsworth House where the camera had a dead battery. Lucky I had an iphone.

You would have seen this in the Keira Knightly version of Pride and Prejudice. I had a nice fanish ooh moments all over the place.

There was also lots of statues, Greek, Roman and Egyptian.

Oxford. We stayed in Woodstock, right next to Blenheim. No pictures of the inside of this palace was allowed but I have a few of the outside and the town of Woodstock and the bloody noisy carnival that was outside our room at the pub!

That’s Matthew and James gasbagging in front of the palace. This was my second time to Blenheim Palace. I am fascinated by Consuelo Vanderbilt’s story so this time I bought her autobiography. There is also a lot of Winston Churchill paraphernalia here too as he was born here, proposed to his wife here and was related to the Duke of Marlborough family. The grounds are lovely too.

There was a film crew there at the time of our visit. No intelligence on what they were filming nor any famous actor spotting. We did visit a film set in Leeds, but that’s another, damp story.

More countryside porn coming up as we did a walk around the gardens, got lost a bit and then took the side entrance out to Woodstock.

Too many photos. Next one is the detail from the arch on the way out.

Street view and that darn carnival which played very loud 80s music till late.