UK travel
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Context! Nottingham Castle’s biggest problem has always been the fact that it’s not actually a castle. This is a big problem for a city where so much of the tourism is based around Robin Hood – people expect to see the famous Nottingham castle, when it doesn’t actually exist. Actually this is only half true.…
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Context! Just visiting a mosque in Britain these days is nothing special as we have loads of them. It’s like just visiting a church. I’ve been to a few in the UK, including London’s Central Mosque and some smaller ones in the Midlands, but most of the mosques in Britain aren’t really tourist attractions in…
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On my trip to London I saw some interesting stuff that I’d like to briefly talk about, but aren’t interesting enough for their own articles. I’ve listed them here!! 🛸Woking’s Martian Tripod Statue The town of Woking, in addition to its mosque, is also famous as the area where HG Wells had Martians crash land…
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I wasn’t able to take many photos during this visit (I asked and was politely told no), so I’ve included some photos I found online to help illustrate this post. 14th September update! I was looking through the Happy Science YouTube channel when I realised that some of the livestreams show a lot of the…
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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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Most of the photos I took won’t include people as I wanted to avoid any privacy issues. To help best show you what the community looks like, I’ve included some photographs of members from the Bruderhof website. I’ve also avoided using specific names for the same reason. Context! The Bruderhof community is difficult to categorise.…
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![🚌 [Bonus] Kelvedon Hatch – visiting by public transport](https://coffeefrog.travel.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/image_editor_output_image261896263-1632081772818.jpg?w=804)
(This is a companion to the main post I did on Kelvedon Hatch bunker, which can be found here). Visiting Kelvedon Hatch by public transport is possible, albeit awkward. Even the website doesn’t really advise it. I made the journey myself in May 2021, and to help anyone else who wants to do it, I’ve…
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Context! At the height of the Cold War, the British Government constructed a network of sophisticated underground bunkers in the event of that a nuclear war broke out. These were designed to shield the government, scientists and other people they deemed important enough to save in the event of a nuclear holocaust, or at least…
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Context! Okay yes it’s #1 on the list of “unusual and interesting London sights” on Atlas Obscura. Highgate Cemetery isn’t that obscure these days, receiving a steady stream of Communists, goths, tourists looking for something quirky to do and (very occasionally) actual mourners. Highgate Cemetery is one of the few private cemeteries left in the…
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