Oct 9th, 2012 at 5:00PM:
Historic European churches and cathedrals are high on many travelers' to-see lists. People admire the soaring vaulted ceilings and richly colored stained glass windows. Look closer, though, and you'll see things you weren't expecting.
Like this lovely lady at the Romanesque church of Saint Mary and Saint David in Kilpeck, Herefordshire, England, shown here courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Yes, ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Naughty Women, Leafy Men And Shameful Anti-Semitism: Church Art The Church Would Rather Forget
Oct 9th, 2012 at 5:00PM:
Historic European churches and cathedrals are high on many travelers' to-see lists. People admire the soaring vaulted ceilings and richly colored stained glass windows. Look closer, though, and you'll see things you weren't expecting.
Like this lovely lady at the Romanesque church of Saint Mary and Saint David in Kilpeck, Herefordshire, England, shown here courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Yes, ...London Construction Reveals Medieval Graves, Bronze Age Road
Oct 7th, 2012 at 2:00PM: London is built on layers of its own past. Occasionally they poke through to the present, like the old Roman walls and the Temple of Mithras. Now two current construction projects have revealed glimpses of the city's previous epochs.
Work to build a leisure center at Elephant and Castle has uncovered some 500 medieval skeletons, the London Evening Standard reports. They were interred in 25 ...Photo Of The Day: Worcestershire Beacon
Oct 4th, 2012 at 6:00PM:
Kumukulanui, one of our reliable favorites, took this photo of Worcestershire Beacon in England's Malvern Hills earlier this week. It should probably be soundtracked by a chorus of angels. The region, located close to England's border with Wales, has been designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty by England's Countryside Agency.
Upload your best images to the Gadling Group Pool on ...Remnants Of World War II In The UK Countryside
Sep 27th, 2012 at 2:00PM:
During World War II, the British were sure they were about to be invaded. The English Channel seemed like nothing more than a narrow creek against the might of Nazi Germany. As the British army fought in North Africa and Southeast Asia, the Home Guard and teams of civilians prepared for the worst.
One elderly English woman told me that when she was a teenager she helped lay electric wire ...Brittany Ferries Strike Affects Travel, Business In Three Countries
Sep 24th, 2012 at 12:00PM:
A strike by the employees of Brittany Ferries is disrupting the movement of travelers and goods between England, France and Spain.
The BBC reports the French union that staffs the ferry service is striking in protest of cuts by the company, which is deeply in the red. Brittany Ferries operates several lines from England to various ports in northern France and Spain. In addition to travelers ...Photo Of The Day: Mountain Biking View
Sep 23rd, 2012 at 6:00PM:
Phew! There are few views more rewarding than the ones that have been earned after a long run, hike or bike ride. It's exactly what this group of mountain bikers, captured in today's photo by Flickr user Kumukulanui, must be thinking right now. Taken right at sunset, the silhouetted poses of the exhausted riders create a striking visual against the fading orange and yellow glow of the sky.
...GPS Guided Hikes Explore Mysterious Yorkshire Rock Art
Sep 16th, 2012 at 4:00PM: Yorkshire, in northern England, is famous for its beautiful countryside where hikers pass through remote moors and climb rugged hills. They can also explore an enduring mystery of Europe's past.
Yorkshire has some of England's largest concentrations of prehistoric rock art. Drawings of recognizable animals or objects are rare. Instead, most are abstract images like these "cup and ring marks," ...Have Archaeologists Found The Lost Tomb Of Richard III?
Sep 12th, 2012 at 12:00PM:
Back in August, we covered a new excavation in the English city of Leicester searching for the lost tomb of King Richard III. Now the University of Leicester reports that their team has discovered bones in the church where he is said to have been buried.
Richard III was the last of the Plantagenet kings and fought an epic struggle with the Tudors during the War of the Roses for control of ...Roman Cavalry Helmet To Be Star Attraction At Royal Academy Exhibition
Sep 10th, 2012 at 4:00PM:
A new exhibition at the Royal Academy in London will feature one of Britain's most stunning archaeological discoveries of the past few years.
Back in 2010, a metal detectorist found this brass helmet in a field in Cumbria, northern England. It dates from the first to third centuries A.D. and is one of a few rare ornate cavalry helmets dating to the Roman period. These helmets were worn for ...Controversial Nude Sculpture Opens In Former Coalmine
Sep 9th, 2012 at 3:00PM:
After two years of construction and a cost of $4,801,200, "The Lady of the North," an enormous sculpture of a naked woman, has opened to the public at the former Northumberland coalmine in England.
The 1,200-foot piece of art, with breasts rising almost 100 feet, is carved into the landscape, with the goal being to compete with the Angel of the North, a contemporary angel sculpture, and earn ...Hiking A Roman Road In England
Sep 4th, 2012 at 2:00PM:
At first glance this looks like a muddy field with an Australian contract lawyer walking away into the middle distance. Look again, though, and you'll notice something strange. Why is there no substantial vegetation in a big straight swath through this field?
The answer is that it's a Roman road. Only a few inches below the soil are the original stones laid down 2,000 years ago when this was ...Police Hunt For Lion In English Countryside (And Fail To Find One)
Aug 27th, 2012 at 1:00PM:
A mysterious beast stalks the fields of Essex, England.
Over the weekend local police received calls from a number of eyewitnesses who claimed to have seen a lion in the fields near the village of St. Osyth. One person even snapped a predictably blurry and inconclusive picture of the beast. I'm not a wildlife expert but it looks like a house cat to me.
Police took the sightings seriously ...A Drive Through Rural Oxfordshire And Buckinghamshire
Aug 25th, 2012 at 10:00AM:
England is so much more than its cities.
Most itineraries take in London and one or two more: Oxford or Cambridge, Brighton or Bath. While I love all these places, and live part time in Oxford, it's the countryside that I truly enjoy. Glimpsed from the motorway it makes a pretty backdrop, but get off onto the country lanes and you'll find villages filled with history, old inns with great ...Hadrian's Wall To Be Turned Into World's Longest Work Of Art
Aug 24th, 2012 at 4:00PM:
Hadrian's Wall has been the traditional boundary between England and Scotland ever since it was built by the Romans in the second century A.D. This 73-mile long structure was once the northernmost limit of the Roman Empire.
As part of the London 2012 Festival, the New York-based artists' collective YesYesNo will light up the entire length with a series of tethered balloons lit by internal LED ...London's Favorite Historic Home: The Soane Museum
Aug 16th, 2012 at 3:00PM: London has preserved the homes of many of its famous residents, such as that of Charles Dickens and the Benjamin Franklin house. One local favorite is often overlooked by out-of-towners because its owner has been all but forgotten outside of England.
Sir John Soane (1753-1837) was the most celebrated architect of his day. He worked on numerous important commissions such as the Bank of England, ...6-Year-Old Saves Manet Painting For UK (With A Little Help)
Aug 9th, 2012 at 3:00PM: Last weekend my family and I visited the Ashmolean Museum here in Oxford. My 6-year-old son loves this place because of all the headless statues, the bow you can use to shoot deer in the Prehistoric Europe room, and the gold coin of the Roman emperor Julian, who he's named after.
In the European art section we came across several paintings by Manet. One was "Portrait of Mademoiselle Claus," ...Butlin's Bognor Regis And The Summer That Changed Everything
Jul 27th, 2012 at 10:00AM: Ginny tore open the envelope, postmarked from London, a few months before we were to leave.
"Butlin's Bognor Regis welcomes you to your place of employment," she read. "Assignment: Retail catering."
The name looked regal enough, with "Butlin's Ltd. of London" embossed in gold across the top of the stationery. Elated, she continued: "Listed below is a brief description of the facilities enjoyed ...London: 10 Fun Non-Olympics Things to Do
Jul 23rd, 2012 at 1:00PM:
London is in a state. At this point in the labored lead-up to the Olympics, many Londoners would probably tell you, if pressed, that they would prefer that their city not be hosting the Olympics in the first place. The tenor of the local press has been largely negative – sluggish immigration processing at Heathrow, security firm screw-ups, anticipated traffic and public transit delays, ...Photo Of The Day: Lyme Regis Rainbow
Jul 17th, 2012 at 6:30PM:
It's not often that you see both points of a rainbow, much less capture it on film. Flickr user Matt Coats did both in today's Photo of the Day, taken in Lyme Regis, a coastal town on England's Heritage Coast. Lyme Regis is known for its preponderance of pre-historic fossils, but with phenomena like this rainbow, one has to wonder whether pots of gold also line the coast.
Do you have your ...Knocked Up Abroad: Lessons Learned From Traveling With A Baby
Jul 12th, 2012 at 11:00AM:
Long before I became a mother, people told me that the first six months is the easiest time to travel with a baby – before they walk, talk or require children's activities. Others told me to travel as much as possible before you have children, as it's too difficult to go places for the first few years. I can confirm that you don't have to turn in your passport when you have a baby, as my ...
