Category Archives: Tours

Seattle Day 2 – Underground and Up in the Air

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Andrew Coates

For our last day in Seattle we organised a late checkout so we could leave our gear at the hotel while we went on Seattle’s famous Underground Tour. We got up early(ish) and walked down to Pike Place Market. The … Continue reading →

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Seattle Day 0 – The world’s biggest building

Posted on July 16, 2011 by Andrew Coates

After we left the Clarkes, we drove down the I5 to the biggest building in the world (by volume), the factory where Boeing manufactures (or, more accurately, assembles) its wide-bodied aircraft, the 747, 767, 777 and 787. We’d booked a … Continue reading →

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Another terrific day

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Samantha Coates

I’m now a day and a bit behind in my blogging, and I can’t see how I’m going to catch up. Oh well. So this is a description of the day before yesterday (Saturday). We woke early again due to … Continue reading →

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Edinburgh Day 2 – Castle, Catacombs and Camera

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Andrew Coates

OK, I’ll admit to taking a little license with the subtitle for the sake of alliteration, there were no catacombs, but they were underground (I also considered crypt), but of this, more later. We started with a cooked breakfast (fried … Continue reading →

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London Day 4 – Getting yelled at is better than being boasted to

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Andrew Coates

The last two things on our Must-Do list for London were St Paul’s cathedral and the Tower of London. We looked up tours of St Pauls and discovered that they are run every 15 minutes or so and are included … Continue reading →

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London Day 1 – a little taste and then a big meal

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Andrew Coates

Having left Mum and Dad in Barcelona (albeit briefly), we arrived in Heathrow 20 minutes ahead of schedule and cleared customs/immigration in record time – less than 15 minutes! This meant that the driver who was supposed to be waiting … Continue reading →

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Barcelona Day 2 – Too Much Gaudi is Never Enough (Part 2)

Posted on July 2, 2011 by Andrew Coates

In Part 1 of this post, I covered the morning and lunch of our day of Gaudi. Immediately after lunch, we walked back up to Plaza Catalunya to join the Gaudi tour. There was some jostling for the front seats … Continue reading →

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Barcelona Day 2 – Too Much Gaudi is Never Enough (Part 1)

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Andrew Coates

On the morning of Day 1, we booked a pair of Gaudi tours. These promised to saturate us in Gaudi and also (importantly) to help us skip the queues at the major sites. We’d agreed to meet Mum and Dad … Continue reading →

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In the VIP lounge of Barcelona (sad to be leaving)

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Thomas Coates

We had fun in Barcelona. We saw lots of Gaudi, Even some still being built. –> This building we saw at the end of our wonderful 2 Gaudi tours. We enjoyed the tours and got a lot out of them. … Continue reading →

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A day of learning

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Samantha Coates

Wow. We did two really fantastic tours today, the Gaudi tour and the Gaudi Plus tour. We were out from 8:30am to 7pm! Gaudi was this amazing architect, with incredible forward-thinking design and engineering skills, who happened to meet and … Continue reading →

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