The New Year’s Resolution

January 2022

Took me a little while to find my mojo to write again after an unpleasant encounter with the global lurgy, yet here I am, one day being back at work and already itching to travel. I guess that’s a side effect from being confined to my little home while I got myself better.

Now rewind to the beginning of the year, usually I don’t bother myself with New Year Resolutions, I find them all very similar and impossible to maintain when lacking any real motivation. Basically I give up before I start. However this year, after the chaos of recent events, I wanted to do something different, something I knew I would want to do and not quit so easily.

The Resolution: To visit a different city, outside my home city once a month for a whole year. So basically 12 trips this year to somewhere other than Leicestershire.

That was the idea – This is my mid-year review …

January

London – Sistine Chapel Exhibition & British Museum for Hokusai Exhibition

Nottingham – Nottingham Castle

February

London – LUX at 108 The Strand – Albrecht Dürer at The National Gallery – Francis Bacon at The Royal Academy of Arts

Edinburgh – Ray Harryhausen Exhibition at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art – Surgeons Hall Museum (no photography allowed in the museum to respect human remains)

York – York Minster & The Shambles

March

Oxford – The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology – The Oxford University Museum of Natural History – The Pitt Rivers Museum – Hertford Bridge, better known as the Bridge of Sighs.

Birmingham – Kitty Cafe

Lincoln – Lincoln Cathedral & Coffee Cats

April

Lincoln – Gaia Exhibition at The Collection Museum & Lincoln Castle

April / May

Scottish Road Trip – Gretna Green – Aberfoyle – Callander – The Trossachs – Oban – Loch Linnhe – Glencoe – Rannoch Moor – Falkirk Wheel – The Kelpies – Loch Lomand

May

Nottingham – Reenactors Festival & City of Caves

June

York – Clifford’s Tower – Dick Turpin’s Grave – York Castle Museum – Van Goth Immersive Experience – The Tyburn – York Dungeon – Jorvik Viking Centre.

Nottingham – Wollaton Hall – T-Rex Exhibition

June / July

Edinburgh – The Writers Museum – St Giles Cathedral – National Museum of Scotland – Scottish National Gallery – Museum on the Mound – Greyfriars

Nottingham – Nottingham Contemporary

PHEW … What a ride (so Far) who knows what the rest of the year has in store for me … Apart from London on Friday! I will revisit this resolution and the final results of my travels at the end of the year.

To be Continued: