Just under three months to go!

Three months!
12 weeks!
82 days!

I'm excited and apprehensive at the same time.
These weeks will fly past so fast and then I will be boarding a plane and heading overseas.
What are my "not to be missed" spots while I am in England and Scotland?
Any suggestions?

Honoring the Dead - even the sullied ones!

So the plan now is to gather a list of interesting places to visit while we are in the UK.
The list is getting longer and longer  - I know that we will just not have enough time to see all that we would like to see - but we will give it our darndest best shot.
A site that was sent to me for further perusal sounds very interesting.

                              
 THE CROSS BONES CEMETERY - SOUTHWARK 

Author John Constable, a local poet and playwright, has begun his own work at Cross Bones. As Constable tells it, he was writing late one night in November, 1996, when he felt overtaken by a character he calls “The Goose,” the spirit of a medieval prostitute. She began dictating what would later become the first poem in Constable’s Southwark Mysteries:

For tonight in Hell
They are tolling the bell
For the Whore that lay at the Tabard,
And well we know
How the carrion crow
Doth feast in our Cross Bones Graveyard.

Constable says that later the same night, “the Goose” took him on a walk through the Southwark streets, whispering more poems, plays and songs in his ears, until the strange tour ended in a vacant lot. According to Constable, he didn’t know the lot contained Cross Bones until several years later. In fact, Constable insists that on that night in 1996, he had never heard of Cross Bones at all. 

Something rather unique about paying your last respects to the "Outcast Dead" of old London town ~ I think they will be nice to us and give us their blessings. I will love to hear their stories - maybe "the Goose" will come and say hello to me too.

Done!

I am very happy to report that all of our accommodation is now set in place - booked.

I have a slight feeling that maybe....just maybe, not all choices were the best, but its been a bit of a nightmare.

First you try and use the best search engines and booking sites....then you have to narrow your choice because what they are showing you is too bloody expensive - then you find you really dont have much to choose from within your budget range anyway.
200 hotels comes down to about 4!
Then its time to try Trip Advisor - and you realise that the only places you can afford are  dumps on the edge of a town that is 20kms from where you want to be with no parking, no breakfast and, in many instances, a bad case of mold on the ceiling.

Right now staying in a place that is haunted may not be the biggest thing to be frightened of! 

It might be the argument on arrival when you find out that your twin reservation is now a double in a room where you cannot even open the door because the bed is in the way and the only toilet/shower is shared amongst 15 rooms and down a dark, smelly corridor and the place is booked out with a local hen's party.

I guess what is now left is to trust that I have made the right choices and that all will be good - I might take my blue light anyway just to check the sheets before we lay our heads to rest at night.. mmmm....maybe not?

Sometimes ignorance is bliss!