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In 2019, Terence and I visited the town of Rugby in Warwickshire. This lovely town is home to Rugby School which is the birthplace of Rugby football. According to legend, Rugby football was invented in 1823 by a schoolboy from the school called William Webb Ellis.
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Robbie, what a gorgeous town. I didn’t know there was a town called Rugby or a school, either. It looks charming there. Thanks for sharing.
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It is a very interesting place to visit and I liked the idea of seeing the school where rugby was born.
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Thank you for sharing these wonderful pictures.
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My pleasure, this was a great place to visit.
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I didn’t know there was a Rugby where Rugby was invented, cool!
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Hi Priscilla, I am glad I could share that with you. I think it’s pretty cool too.
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I like rustic old doors. Lovely pictures.
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Hi Jacqui, I must admit, I have never visited a place in the UK that doesn’t have a couple of amazing places of historical interest.
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That’s the image I have of most of Europe–filled with timeless history. Not your country or mine so much.
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Mine isn’t as bad as I thought and I have the wonderwerk caves trip to look forward too [wink]
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You visited interesting places in England, Robbie.
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Thank you, Miriam. Terence and I have diverse taste in places of interest so we do end up doing quite a bit to appease both of us.
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Robbie, it’s the same with me and Lynton. For international trip, we take turns to choose the vacation destinations.
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It is the best way. Both get a diverse experience and both are happy.
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It works for us and we have been doing that for years.
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Lovely! I’ve never been to Rubgy, so I enjoyed seeing the pictures.
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Hi Stevie, I do believe you said you weren’t planning on travelling abroad again, so Rugby would be a great local place to visit. It is very interesting and the food we had at that pub was very nice.
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Such a beautiful little town!
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It really is, Jacquie. A lovely place to visit.
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You have traveled to so many different and diverse places, Robbie. I love these posts! Thank you for sharing!
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Thank you, Jan. We do like to make the most of our trips out and about. Terence always squashes as much as is reasonably possible in.
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Lovely place I know it well 💜
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Lovely to look at and I know I could lose myself there for hours… Rugby, eh? Cool!
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It is pretty cool that this is the town that invented the game of rugby. It’s very quaint.
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It looks like a lovely town. Thanks for sharing these great pictures, Robbie.
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Classic town in feel and style…thanks for sharing, hope they never “modernize”!
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The English are quite good at conserving their history and tourist attractions so I don’t expect they ever will. Thanks John.
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That’s great that they do, Robbie…here in Los Angeles anything more than 30 years off is torn down, with VERY few exceptions…
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That is interesting, John.
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It looks like such a cool place to visit, Robbie. I think I would love it!
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It was very interesting to look about this old town and famous old school, Mae.
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The school looks very stately!
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It is, Liz. We saw a few girls walking about, I assume they were doing Sixth form, and they wear the most old fashioned school uniform imaginable.
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I was fortunate to miss the school uniform experience (except for gym class).
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Lucky you. I work a uniform all my life.
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The high school I attended abolished the dress code, the main prohibition being bare feet.
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In all my travels up and down the land, I have never stopped in Rugby. I keep meaning to, but you know how it is. So I particularly enjoyed your shots of this historic town!
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I am glad you enjoyed the pictures, Mike. We stopped there for a few hours on our way to Birmingham in 2018. It was quite worthwhile to see the town and school, albeit from the outside only.
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You went to Birmingham too …! 🙂
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Wonderful embellishments on those buildings. Modern architecture generally lacks that attention to detail.
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It does, Kerfe. Modern buildings are often serviceable, climate change friendly [not a bad thing], and built on a budget. I guess we channel our funds into IT and technology now days.
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Like everything else these days, not built to last.
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That’s very interesting. We have the Basketball and Volleyball Halls of Fame up the road from us, but neither are in beautiful old world charming towns like this. I think I could spend days walking around and gawking at the architecture. Thanks for sharing these, Robbie The doors and buildings are beautiful.
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Thank you, Dan. I love visiting the UK and am holding thumbs for next year. This year its going to be the Wonderwerk Caves and Cape Town.
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looks like a nice place to visit. funny to think of a schoolbooy inventing a game that is now played worldwide…
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I know, isn’t it amazing. We also went to St Andrews [birth place of golf].
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even though I don’t golf, I’d love to see St. Andrew’s…
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So that’s what Rugby looks like. How very pleasant! I’ve only ever passed it on the Liverpool-London train where the view from the window offers little to recommend the place as I remember.
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Hi Chris, I felt like that about Rochester. It looked dirty and grim from the train windows. Rugby is delightful and very interesting.
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What stunning doors, Robbie. I enjoyed the commentary too — I didn’t know there was a town named Rugby. Cool beans! I hope you’ve had a wonderful weekend. Hugs on the wing!
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I am really glad you enjoyed the pictures, Teagan. It is a fun place to visit with its interesting history.
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Hi Robbie – it’s always fun to see pictures from your trips. I especially like that street shot in Rugby.
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What an interesting bit of history and a lovely place. Thanks for sharing, Robbie. 🙂
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Thank you, Diana, this was a great place to visit with its fascinating history.
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