I've avoided looking at the photos from this time in my life because the travel resulted from an ill conceived idea to go to graduate school in the United Kingdom. Little did I know education had already begun a dumbing down process in order to attract foreign student money. I've always been an idealist and it broke my heart to see that.
But positives can always come from negatives. As a result I was able to explore North England, Scotland, North Ireland, and Ireland. Since I traveled Ireland with all the stuff I moved to England with (just one 50lb checked bag), we had to lug around what we loving referred to as "the body bag", but luckily we were able to leave it in Glasgow when we traveled to Oban and in Dublin while we explored the rest of the country. Afterwards I then also took a trip to Nepal and India as consolation, which further opened my eyes.
So after over two years, here are the photos from that time. I'll split it up with England and Scotland here, with another post for Northern Ireland and Ireland.
I'm glad to go through these photos now. There are a lot of place I've already forgotten and thanks to the help of Google I was able to find most of them, but I do remember one place where Daniele and I had to go through an old abandoned underground tunnel to get from one side of the waterway to another. I think I took that photo with my phone and have since lost it, but I think that was over in North and South Shields. Oh wait, yes, it was the Tyne Tunnel, via Wikipedia:
I'm glad to go through these photos now. There are a lot of place I've already forgotten and thanks to the help of Google I was able to find most of them, but I do remember one place where Daniele and I had to go through an old abandoned underground tunnel to get from one side of the waterway to another. I think I took that photo with my phone and have since lost it, but I think that was over in North and South Shields. Oh wait, yes, it was the Tyne Tunnel, via Wikipedia:
Alright, and on with the rest!
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| Tower Bridge, London |
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| Found On The Tower Bridge, London |
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| Tower Of London |
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| The Orangery, London |
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| Big Ben, London |
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| Outside Buckingham Palace, London |
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| Daniele Was Seriously Obsessed With Paddington Bear |
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| Inside The British Museum |
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| The Rosetta Stone, London |
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| Around Piccadilly Circus, London |
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| Inside Hamley's, London |
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| More Paddington Bear |
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| I've Never Seen More Random Cemeteries Then When I Lived In Newcastle |
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| Newcastle Cathedral |
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| Street Art, Newcastle |
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| Tyne Bridge, Newcastle |
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| Gateshead Millennium Bridge, Newcastle |
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| Newcastle Cathedral At Night |
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| Another Cemetery, Newcastle |
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| Sunderland |
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| Sunderland |
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| A Friendly Face After A Creepy Abandoned Orphanage, Sunderland |
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| Tynemouth Priory |
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| Tynemouth |
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| Tynemouth |
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| Tynemouth Lighthouse |
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| Creepy Mosaic At Whitley Bay |
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| Whitley Bay |
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| Whitley Bay In Its Heyday |
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| Seriously, These Graveyards Were Really Disturbing, Newcastle |
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| Newcastle |
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| Alnwick Castle (The One From Harry Potter) |
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| Alnwick Castle |
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| Durham |
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| Durham |
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| Durham |
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| Durham |
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| Durham |
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| Durham Indoor Markets |
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| Durham |
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| Durham? |
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| Earl Haig Statue, Edinburgh |
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| Elephant Cafe |
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| Elephant Cafe |
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| Edinburgh |
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| Missoni Kilt |
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| Edinburgh |
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| View From Edinburgh Castle |
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| Cemetery For Soldiers' Dogs |
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| St. Margaret's Chapel, Edinburgh Castle |
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| Mary, Queen Of Scots |
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| Surprisingly Good Haggis Crisps |
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| Edinburgh Castle |
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| Edinburgh Castle |
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| St. Andrew's Church, Edinburgh |
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| 1 O'Clock Gun, Edinburgh Castle |
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| Edinburgh |
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| Endless Scotch |
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| Edinburgh |
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| Lady Stair's Close |
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| Edinburgh |
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| Bobby! |
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| Inside Greyfriar's Kirkyard |
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| Inspiration For Voldemort's Name |
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| Creepy Museum Of Childhood |
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| Pitlochry |
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| Pitlochry |
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| Pitlochry? |
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| Glencoe |
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| Glencoe |
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| Fort Augustus |
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| For Augustus |
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| Loch Ness |
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| Loch Ness |
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| Fort Augustus |
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| Glencoe |
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| Glencoe |
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| Vampire Rabbit, Newcastle |
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| Seriously, I Forgot How Many Creepy Cemeteries There Are In Newcastle |
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| Castle Keep, Newcastle |
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| Roman Ruins Near Hadrian's Wall |
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| Haltwhistle, Center Of Britian |
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| Hadrian's Wall |
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| Hexham |
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| Hexham |
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| Hexham |
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| Hexham |
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| Hexham |
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| Eeusk, Oban |
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| McCaig's Folly, Oban |
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| Jeremy Inglis, Oban (The Monkeys Are Our's) |
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| Oban |
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| Oban |
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| Oban |
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| On The Ferry To The Isle Of Mull |
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| Iona |
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| Iona |
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| Iona |
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| St. Oran's Chapel, Iona |
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| Iona |
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| Highland Cow, Iona |
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| Iona |
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| Isle Of Mull |
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| Isle Of Mull |
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| Isle Of Mull |
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| Isle Of Mull |
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| The B&B That Saved Us From Sleeping In An Abandoned Wagon |
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| Isle Of Mull |
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| Isle Of Mull |
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| Highland Ponies |
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| On The Ferry Back To Oban Thanks To A Lovely Couple That Let Us Catch A Ride |
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| Oban |
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| Oban |
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| Glasgow |
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| Glasgow Necropolis |
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| Glasgow Necropolis |
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| Glasgow Necropolis |
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| Glasgow Necropolis |
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| Glasgow Necropolis |
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| Glasgow Necropolis |
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| Glasgow Necropolis |
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