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Visiting Weymouth I am going to start blogging about the towns and cities that I have visited on my travels around the UK, to those that live there, most of these places don't seem that special and true these days there are very few destinations that can offer something totally unique to the traveller but in their own right each town and city is special. A popular 'calling' for me is the coast, growing up in the midlands, the furthest you can get from the seaside in the Uk, it's not surprising that the watery shores of our fair isle have always interested me. The connection to family holidays when growing up is obvious and so the association with enjoyment and happiness will probably be forever buried in my psyche. Most recently I spent my first holiday at the popular seaside town of Weymouth, nestled on an attractive stretch of the Jurassic Coast in Dorset. Weymouth I had always been told was a nice place to visit, no one I had spoken to had ever told me that they

History Of The Royal Naval College The Old Royal Naval College in London is the centerpiece of a World Heritage Site in Greenwich, London, originally built as a hospital in 1696 The Greenwich Hospital, designed by architect Sir Christopher Wren ( he also designed the amazing St. Paul's Cathedral, London) was a place for retired sailors of the Royal Navy and has been described by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) as being of  'outstanding universal value' and considered to be the 'finest and most dramatically sited architectural and landscape ensemble in the British Isles', it is also in my humble opinion a great place to spend a sunny afternoon in London and certainly an interesting place to visit. Not Just Any Old College But A Royal Naval College And A World Heritage Site Too The Greenwich Hospital which had originally built between 1696 and 1712 closed in 1869, four years after it's closure in 1873 the si