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On Friday I visited Lancaster to take a look around, a few pics from Lancaster...
Lancaster Castle, which, to my understanding, is used as a Crown Court as well as for tours? Well that might explain the vast amount of CCTV cameras and barbed wires lining the turrets!





Lancaster Priory, adjacent to the Castle...



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Today we drove some distance from the southern Lakes peninsula (where we were staying in a caravan) to Keswick in the northern half of the Lakes.

The journey offered some really good views of the Cumbrian mountain range and also of the various lakes.

These photos were taken at various places along this stretch of road.










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(Please note all photographs were taken from the car)

To get away from the stress of A Level exams i thought I'd head to one of my favourite places in Kent - the Isle of Thanet. Situated in the northeast corner of Kent, it is home to the three main towns of Margate, Ramsgate and Broadstairs and offers both pebble and sand beaches. I spent many...

Extratropical Cyclone 'Klaus' (meaning 'outside of the tropics') originated from the sub-tropical Atlantic (west of North Africa) on Thursday night (22nd) and quickly pushed northeastwards throughout Friday (23rd).
At midnight on Friday it had a centre of 1001mb, but deepened very rapidly, to a centre of 969mb at 1800GMT Friday. That's an...

A series of cold fronts swept southeastwards on Sunday (26th), clearing the southeast by evening. This left a much clearer, but cooler northwesterly airflow, bringing an unstable polar maritime airmass.

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