Bad Knees Travel

  I got a chance to visit this impressive new garden in January 2022. As the guest of one of their founding bee keeper, my son in law's father, Joe Bleasdale. This is yet another place that I will have to return to as I feel that there is so much more to it than one visit can cover. I have formatted the photos smallish.  I think that you should be able to click on the ones you want to see in more detail.  I think it will make a slide show you can scroll thru. This is a brief overview of what we could see with 2 small ones and an appointment for a formal dinner later in the day. The smalls were running at full tilt to get to all of the things on the scavenger hunt that had been handed to them as we entered the gardens. This is the walk up from the car park.   What you can't see is that there are lights along the way, each is tucked into a faux stack of firewood. Much of the garden is accessible to all wheelchairs. And do plan for the gate fee. The entry hall is a...

In January 2022, I had another chance to visit Bishop's Castle.  Please note that there is an apostrophe so as not to confuse it with a place in Colorado. My daughter has Morris practice here, and I went walkabout while she played accordion. (Feel free to fill in all of the accordion and Morris Dance jokes you know at this point.) This is not a curated walk, just my thoughts rambling around this interesting place. Their web site is very British.  Lots of modern stuff, but really not useful unless you know the local ways.  Their tourism page is also quirky.  Just imagine you are in any BBC show and it will start to make sense. Their list of walks is quite tempting.  If you are going to go on walking tours, you should start to look at the British Walking way of describing paths. It is not what you are expecting.  Do not plan to look at street/road signs for information.  They are often not their, or refer to some other name of the road. If possible, ca...