heritage – Luphen reborn

Bodø to Stockholm by train, almost

Bodø to Stockholm via Narvik by bus and train, with a visit to the Vasa Museum.

A visit to the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo, seeing three burial ships and associated artefacts.

A tour of Honister Slate Mine in Cumbria, England’s only working slate mine.

A visit to Woolpit Steam with its traction engines and other machinery of yore.

Visits to HMS Victory, HMS Warrior, the Mary Rose, the Spinnaker Tower, and other activities in a weekend in Portsmouth.

A walk on the Cromford Canal and High Peak Trail, trips on the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway including to Ravenstor, a long run, and steam in action.

My London Marathon training plan called for a half-marathon about now, and somehow the plan arose of popping for a visit to the Cyprus Half-Marathon.

A weekend in Northumberland with parkrun, Holy Island, and a walk by the River Coquet.

Tilberthwaite to Levers Water; Lingmoor Fell from Hodge Close; Foulney Island; and Helvellyn from Glenridding.

A walk along Hadrian’s Wall from ditch turret 39B to Housesteads fort and back.