The Churchill Museum and the Cabinet War Rooms museum are both located in central London. You will have to purchase tickets which will give you entry to both the museums. Remember that the ticket will provide you with a free audio guide, making your visit more interesting and informative.

Churchill Museum: This museum is dedicated to the life and achievements of Sir Winston Churchill. It covers the whole of the British prime minister’s life and works. There are on display plenty of iconic objects, clothes, documents, and films connected with the life of the statesman. A special attraction of this museum is its “Lifeline”, which is a 15 meter-long interactive table dominating the museum space. It is interesting to interact with it to find out what Churchill did on a month or day through the 90 years of his life.

The Cabinet War Rooms: These are the underground rooms where Churchill and his war cabinet sat and made schemes for the war, operating round the clock from the start of the war in 1939 to its end in 1945. The rooms are kept as they were, and they give you a feel of stepping into the time.

The museum has a Remembrance weekend program when people with direct war experience talk to the visitors about their personal experience of the war.

A visit to the two museums will surely bring to life before your very eyes the stressful days of World War II.

There are some places that have an air of mystery and mystique about them. These places also have stories that are told about then which border on the paranormal and the super natural. It is thus quite natural to expect something out of the ordinary from places like Pendle which is said to have had witches and there were the ones with trials too, in days of old. The place is located within the Ribble Valley as well as East Lancashire and the story is centered on two witches known as Demdike and Chattox. These witches used to offer cures to local villages. There were a series of events that took place then which culminated in the hanging of nine women as witches.

If you go to Pendle now, you can see the Pendle Heritage Center which is there is Barrowford. It is well renovated as a museum and had a great deal of info about the whole place which you might like t check out. You can also explore the landscape surrounding the area, with stone clad walls, outhouses as well as fields. All of this makes for a heady mix of adventure and beauty, nature and history that is the essence of Pendle.

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There are so many cities in England where you can enjoy yourself and have a whale of a time. While most people know about London, there are other places you can visit too. Leicestershire is a delightful place where you have lots to see and even more to do, and have a great time either solo or with family and friends. For city lights you can visit Leicester and for country delights you always have the charms of Leicestershire. Leicester has wonderful architecture that transports you back to days of old and you can check out many of the old buildings and museums too. In addition there is Highcross Leicester which gives you wonderful shopping and great eating experiences to steal your heart way.

If the countryside fascinates you, just step out to Leicestershire, where you have beautiful rolling landscapes as well as market towns that can charm you with their quaint cottages and small markets filled with goodies. Enjoy the famous Melton Mowbray Pork Pie and explore the Bradgate Park Country Park that is all so wonderful. You will not miss your crowded or cramped city one but and when it is time to pack up and get back home, you will wish you were a resident of this place.

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Visitors to Lake District may feel curious about some of the unique things there. Some of the common queries are answered here:

1. Why are so many cottages painted white? – It is because of lime wash that the Lake District inhabitants have been using to paint their house with for a pretty long time to keep out the lake damp.

2. Why are there so many dry stone walls? – Dry stone walls are used to divide up the farming landscape and clear the fields of stones.

3. Why are there old fireplaces in fields and walls? – Some of these old fireplaces may belong to ruined cottages, but many of them are lime kilns. Lime is a chemical compound made from heating limestone. It helped in the shaping of the Lake District by sweetening the acidic soils and fertilizing farmland. Farm and field kilns were built close to where lime was needed.

4. Why are some of the sheep grey? – These are hardy Herdwick sheep. It is believed that these sheep were brought by the Vikings. They are able to cope with extreme natural conditions.

5. Where are Cumberland and Westmorland? – These are names of old counties which contained the Lake District. They were merged with parts of Yorkshire and Lancashire to become Cumbria in 1974.

The Zeppelin flight is something that you can enjoy in the city of London if you have a taste for the great outdoors and also for a flight out of the ordinary. This is a flight that is offered by the Star over London Airship and the company that hosts it is Stella Artois. A zeppelin ride is something that is sure to catch your fancy and you would do well to know that it is a blast from the past. To start off you can enjoy the canapés as well as the orange juice before the flight, in a tent that is meant for the passengers. In addition, you have to go through a security check just before the flight comes in for the next set of passengers.

The zeppelin takes in 12 passengers at a time and even as you get into the flight, you have flashes of Independence Day that race trough your mind. The flight take off is slow as it is after all a hot air balloon, and it does resemble an aircraft with seats buckles and even a toilet. The windows are huge, so you get an excellent view and while you get an adrenalin rush, it seems s if fear is also quite nearby.

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Getting on a pirate walk is something that I was not too keen about. After all, the only experience I had with pirates earlier was on a school fancy dress competition that had not suited me very well. It still gives me the sort of shivers you get when you think of something really repulsive. This is why the when the offer to get on a pirate walk in Bristol came up, I was not too keen, but when I did get there, I saw a man who looked rather cheery with a pirate cap and suddenly my spirits lifted. He was quite jocular and also talkative to say the least, but it suited him fine. His name was Peter and as he talked about Bristol’s famous pirate history, we could see that Peter was quite someone in Bristol, someone who had become a kind of institution in the city.

This was all very fine, because people like Peter are an asset to any organization that wants to have people take interest in their history and the like. There are so many aspects to Bristol’s history that is replete with excitement, and Peter is able to bring out these elements quite in a lively manner.

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The Broads in Norfolk is a vast wetland surrounded by beautiful countryside and accessed via narrow lanes with hedgerows on either side. If you are interesting in birdwatching, the Broads will give you some blissful time because birds of variegated color and shape and sound abound there.

Here are also a number of family friendly pubs there where you can enjoy a hearty dinner and a wholesome drink.

From the Norwich railway station River Wensum is just a short walk. Therevyou can take a boat to Whitlingham Country Park. Here you can take part in water-based activities like sailing, windsurfing, kayaking, rafting and canoeing. There you can also see a historic flint barn, which has been converted into a visitor information centre, cafe and WC.

At the edge of the Wroxham Broad there is The Broad House Hotel, a luxury boutique hotel with a magnificent exterior. Its 24 acres of secluded parkland offers you an escape from the stresses and strains of modern living.

Another attraction of the Broads is Woodbastwick, one of the broadlands’ prettiest villages where you can book your table beforehand for a quiet nice lunch at The Fur and Feather Inn. This is a pub with a beautiful setting. The food is great and the atmosphere is friendly.

Yorkshire is a delightful place and if you get the right kind of place to stay at, you can have the time of your life. One of the best places to stay here is the White Swan Inn which is located at Pickering. This is quite old and parts of this place date back to the 16^th century. It is now refurnished and also refurbished so that it has now become a three star hotel, in its own rights. There is something amazing about the place. It has 12 rooms in the main house. The main house is quite traditional but it has a contemporary side to it. The stables had also been converted into rooms and there were 8 rooms and a suite in the converted stables part of the house. The room I stayed in was in the converted stables, but it was quite beautiful and there was a lot of be seen in the house and all around. The food was lovely too, not to mention the whitest bathroom I had ever chanced to see in a hotel. This was quite remarkable.

We also had a chance to savor the Black Swan Hotel in Helmsely, which is quite famous for its patisserie. This was quite lovely indeed.

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If you are interested about the background of the famous Beatles, you have to come to Liverpool. In Liverpool there is the Hard Days Night Hotel, associated with the Beatles. It is actually dedicated to their memory. It is a boutique hotel beside the Cavern Club. Book a room here in advance. The rooms with their modern décor and the nice friendly attitude of the staff will make you wish to come back.

Get a good night’s sleep. Visit The Beatles Story in the morning. It is a famous museum dedicated to the “Fab Four”. It is located within Liverpool’s Albert Dock. It is a special museum unique in itself for its enlightening and atmospheric journey into the life, times, culture and music of the Beatles. This museum will give you the rare experience of what it was like to a Beatles fan back in the 1960s.

After the Beatles Story experience you must take The Magical Mystery Tour. It is a bus trip around the city that will help to give you an idea of how the Beatles lived before they became famous. The guide provided by the Cavern City Tours is a professional who will entertain you with the stories of the Beatles associated with the city and the suburbs who were destined to become world famous musicians.

The tour comes to an end at the Cavern Club where the Beatles started their musical fame. This tour is really a pilgrimage for the Beatles Fans.

Visiting pubs is quite a passion for me and also kind of a vocation for me as I do review pubs of various kinds across the country. This is a joy that I really cherish which is why I do not tire of telling people about the salient features of many of the pubs that I have the chance of savoring and then analyzing. Visiting pubs is not always about pub lunches and it can be rather humdrum sometimes. But when you come to The Bat and Ball pub in Hambledon, it’s not such a bad thing after all. To get to the place itself you will have to cross and get a sight of the fine English countryside which is another of my all time endearing passions.

The name The Bat and Ball comes from the fact that this pub stands just next to a cricket field, there is some history to this pub as when the Lords used to finish playing a spot of cricket, they would amble into The Bat and Ball for a spot of beer to round it all off on a hot summers day. That is why there is an old world charm about this pub and given the warm friendliness that you encounter here, it may be a great idea to check it out. The beer and the food are also above par which can entice you in, time and again.

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