Maz Kanata herself - as real as her CGI castle! It's fair to say that ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ has inspired quite a few of our holidays since its release in 2015, with my husband and I visiting several of the filming locations in the intervening years. Our first holiday together was to the … Continue reading Searching for Maz Kanata’s castle in the Lake District
Category: Tourism
“The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”― Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express When is the Orient Express not the Orient Express? Now this is a conundrum that might even be worthy of Hercule Poirot's little grey cells... On a trip up to the Lake District in … Continue reading Breakfast on the Orient Express
Liverpool has some great museums, and despite being local I probably don't visit them as often as I should. At the start of this year I heard about a new display at the Museum of Liverpool all about filming in the city and of course I needed to pay it a visit. I was very … Continue reading Museum of Liverpool special exhibition – a celebration of filming in the city
Happy New Year! Welcome to 2026 and all the adventures that it may bring us! I very much enjoyed 2025. Myself and my husband had several short breaks, which of course involved the odd location or two. Some I actually managed to write about for this blog - the pub from 'Trainspotting' in Glasgow, and … Continue reading New Year, new focus, and the ‘Andor effect’
