Kylie & Simon Travels

A well used castle in Scotland for Kings and Queens and battles between England and Scotland

Loch Lomond.

Loch Restil.

Inveraray.

Loch Awe with highland cattle.

Loch Awe, the view from the hotel we stayed at.

Gran’s 90th birthday party at The Trout Hotel in Cockermouth, the main reason for this trip. All family from across the UK and 8 of us from Australia were there.

The house where the family grew up in Seascale, Cumbria.

On the beach at Seascale where our father’s family grew up, here with partners.

Magic. Snowing at Castlerigg stone circle near Keswick.

Part of Hadrian’s Wall.

Housestead Roman Fort along Hadrian’s Wall. This is the Grainary.

many bridges as well as the one we are standing on. Including a swing bridge and a rail/public transport bridge.

View from part of the New Castle, called Castle Keep. Looking toward Black gate (left) and some flats. Some of the castle was taken down as you can see the railroad tracks (bottom right).

The Norman castle has many rooms and a gallery. A Longstaffe wrote an article on ‘The New Castle’ in 1868. He lived 1828-1898.

We climbed to the top of Durham Cathedral, 300 steps. At the top it started to snow!.
It is from medievil times. Still used regulaly today. There is also a castle which is the university.

Durham city square

First leg of the journey on Emirates. Melbourne to Dubai.

Dubai Airport.
Emirates had a camera so you could view underneath the plane. This was good as it was too bright to look out over the desert through the window.
There was also a front camera so you could see the plane coming into land.