Dinosaurs
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Context! Dinosaurs are the single best thing ever to exist and anyone who claims otherwise is lying to themselves. Wollaton Hall, despite being a major natural history museum, sadly doesn’t have any on permanent display. However they’ve been rectifying this with temporary exhibits showing dinosaur skeletons from other museums. Back in 2018, the museum held…
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This was originally going to be a small part of my Bulgaria roundup post, but the story got long enough that I’ve turned it into a separate blog entry. I hope you enjoy! Context! Unless you’re a complete sociopath you probably like dinosaurs – there’s something about skeletons of massive, long extinct animals that brings…
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As someone who runs a blog specifically about weird/offbeat attractions, I have to confess that I found Edinburgh a lot more… pedestrian than Glasgow. It’s still a great city, don’t get me wrong! I loved Edinburgh Zoo and the Harryhausen exhibition, but I found it a bit tricky to find anything in Edinburgh that wasn’t…
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Context! If you’ve never heard of Ray Harryhausen, you may well have seen some of his work. If you haven’t seen any of his films, you’ve definitely, absolutely seen something influenced by him. Or maybe you’ve just seen snippets in the Malcolm in the Middle intro. Ray Harryhausen wasn’t an actor, writer or director –…
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Context! The Hunterian Museum, part of the University of Glasgow, is the best University museum I’ve seen outside of Oxbridge. It’s a really beautiful building, free to enter, and has exhibits on basically everything. The Hunterian Collection is over two hundred years old, and has picked up some wild exhibits in its time. Some of…
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Context! As huge as London is, I think the Crystal Palace dinosaurs are my favourite thing in the whole city. They’re obscure, out the way and basically falling apart these days, but there’s really nothing like them anywhere else in the planet. The dinosaurs (and other prehistoric animals) were built in Crystal Palace Park way…
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