National Trust Daytrip: Kinver Rock Houses The term caveman conjures such a distinct image, a whole existence sporadically generates in our imagination of primal humans wearing some exotic animal's hide around their goods. Olive skin thick with grease and that unwashed shine patches of black dirt almost ingrained in their pores. We think of dank, musty and barren cave dwellings that reek of living odours. A billow of grey smoke snaking through a dark enigmatic...

Daytrip Number Three: Greyfriars The street is a mess with people holding their heads in their hands as the day's progression attacks the sanity of the human race. As conformity and monotonous lifestyles culminate in a great load of nothing. And as two people step in line with the rest of the world a small gem hides stuck between commercial buildings a warm and cosy tudor period house dripping with a rustic charm. This third expedition was actually an effort ...

National Trust Day Trip: Whitley Court Here I sit at the desk of my current lodgings the Bishop-Cook Flat at 11:55 pm, before I retire to the comfort of the bed I am determined to shed some light on more of my travel activites with a look into the second National Trust Day Trip to the grande ruins of Whitely Court. The most admirable element to this fine building that sets it wonderfully apart from the previous abodes I walked the hallowed halls of is that thi...

National Trust Daytrip: Coughton Court For those that are unaware I have now moved back to London to start working again. I have picked up a job in the Zavvi Megastore (formerly Virgin Megastore) on the corner of Oxford St. and Tottenham Court Rd. and for those that are unaware of where that is, I think "the centre of London" will suffice as an explanation. You should all be very proud of my endeavour of walking in London, I have now perfected the fi...

Parsons Way of Life: The thing that I must be overly grateful for on this trip to discover my roots, my heritage and see some amazing things is the gracious hosts that have showered me with hospitality. Kathy & Bryan King in Bedfordshire, Kellie & James in the heart of the city that makes me leap and my current lodgings in Stourbridge, West Midlands with Auntie Tricia, it is unfathomable how much they have helped me get by, a roof and a plate with so...