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Day 59: 7th May – That’s it Folks
Today’s trivia is on Heathrow vs KSA airports: London Heathrow: Operates with four active passenger terminals (2, 3, 4, and 5). Heathrow is one of the busiest international airports in the world, often handling over 80 million pass Heathrow is well-served by the London Underground (Piccadilly Line), often called “The Tube,” which is the oldest…
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Day 58: 6th May – Where to go
Today’s trivia is where do we go: Cambridge offering a romantic, picture-perfect, and quiet day trip. Oxford has a more substantial, bustling, and museum-heavy experience along with Harry Potter movie sites. It was a hard choice . . Probably should have chosen Oxford, as Cambridge seems still to be stuck in the covid-19 period .…
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Day 57: 5th May – Dear oh Deer
Today’s trivia is on Richmond Park: London’s largest Royal Park, at 2,500-acre. Established in 1625 (fenced 1637) by Charles I to escape the London plague. Famous for its 600+ free-roaming red and fallow deer. Deer are crepuscular, making dawn and dusk the best times to spot them feeding. The park is a hotspot for wildlife.…
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Day 56: 4th May – May the 4th be with Us
Today’s trivia is on May the Forth: It’s 235 days till Xmas or more sobering, 124th day of the year, 125th if a leap year. Emperor Napoleon arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile in 1814. In 1919 the May Fourth Movement, student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square, protesting…
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Day 55: 3rd May – Look at me Look at Meeeeeee
Today’s trivia is Portobello Markets: The market is named after Portobello Farm, which was named in 1739 to honor a British navy victory at Porto Bello, Panama. While it began as a fresh food market in the 19th century, it became famous for antiques and bric-a-brac in the 1940s and 1950s. Although open daily (Monday–Saturday),…
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Day 54: 2nd May – Southend-on-sea
Today’s trivia is Southend-on-sea: Is the world’s longest iron pleasure pier, at 2.158km long. The Pier was originally a wooden structure built in 1830. It has been rebuilt several times over the years. In May 1915, Southend was a one of the first air raid victims of the First World War. Bombs were dropped by…
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Day 53: 1st May – Mr or Sir Soane
Today’s trivia is on Soane’s House: The basement houses the vast, 3,000-year-old limestone sarcophagus of Egyptian King Seti I, purchased for £2,000 in 1824 after the British Museum turned it down. The Picture Room has movable, hinged panels that allow 118 paintings to fit into a tiny space, including Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress. The dome…
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Day 52: 30th March – That’s it with Capri
Today’s trivia is on our hire car: Designed by American Philip T. Clark, who also worked on the Ford Mustang, the Capri was deliberately designed to have the “visual appeal of speed while stationary”.The Name: Originally, Ford planned to call it “Colt,” but Mitsubishi held the rights to the name. Over its 18-year lifespan, roughly…
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Day 51: 29th March – Not a day to be a Pheasant
Today’s trivia is on pheasants: Males have iridescent plumage, a red facial wattle, and can reach 24–35 inches in length. Females are smaller and cryptic, designed to blend into their surroundings to avoid predators while nesting. They are omnivores, feeding on seeds, grains, berries, leaves, insects, and small spiders. They prefer woodlands, farmland, and grassland…
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Day 50: 28th March – Trains and . . .
Today’s trivia is on poo: Wombats produce cube-shaped feces for territorial marking, as the shape prevents rolling. Dried elephant and human manure have historically been used as fuel for fires. The white part of bird droppings is actually their urine (uric acid). Young Komodo dragons roll in their own feces to protect themselves from being…
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