Category | England

Escape the monotony of the Tube - London

Posted on 14 May 2008

Ok, so if you’re running late in the morning, buying your favourite newspaper is the last thing on your mind, and fighting for the last Metro beneath you. But [...]

The best and the worst tube stations

Posted on 19 March 2008

Best station to see God

Medal of honour
Canary Wharf
Comments from cadets
“Coming over the water and into that high skylit ceiling [...]

Jorvik York

Posted on 03 January 2008

For a really different prehistoric experience, consider time travel at the Jorvik Viking Centre in York, England, devoted to the Viking City that was, in theearly Christian period, York, or Yorvik. Here you seat yourself in an electric cart and move quickly through the scenes typical, first, of 1976, when the archaeological digbegan, then the [...]

Ludlow Man

Posted on 02 January 2008

Once inside, visitors could marvel over "Ludlow Man," the body of a Kelt ritually murdered and preserved in a bog, a man whose stomach was found to contain mistletoe pollen from the drink administered, probably by Druids (to whom mistletoe was sacred), before his death. He was stunned by blows to the head, then garroted, [...]