Stopping for lunch and a walk leads to new research discoveries My first solo post for our new Travel and Culture newsletter went live today: https://open.substack.com/pub/travelandculture/p/accidental-pilgrims-a-serendipitous Sometimes you "follow your nose" and discover more than you expect. In this case, my on-site research for a new novel led to a village in northern England. As … Continue reading Accidental Pilgrims: A Cultural Journey in Corbridge, UK
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Ann Marie and I met during a cooking course called Eat Medieval, first online and then in person at Blackfriars Restaurant in Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK...
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...We were visiting a small castle called Dolwyddelan, known to have been built and used by the Welsh princes in the 13thCentury. Placards set around the castle provided a self-guided tour into the history of that castle and the fall of independent Wales in 1282-3. Then I walked up the stairs to the wall walk, and looked out over the landscape. I started wondering what it must have been like for them...
Marie Powell 