Tourist Tuesdays

In the summer of 2015 I changed jobs which also involved a reduction in working hours from full-time to four days per week. Right from the very beginning I was determined to put the extra free time to good use. Generally, the day was taken up doing the sort of stuff I’d normally do out of work hours which freed up some quality time in the evenings and at weekends. There’d also be days when I’d be doing chores or just chilling out and there was a period of many months when I spent a lot of time travelling over to East Yorkshire to help look after an aging, house-bound uncle. Nevertheless, there was still time, every now and again, to get out and about and do something a bit different. I came up with a rather simple plan to spend a day visiting a town or city as a tourist. The thought of doing it on my own didn’t seem too appealing so I put the idea to my good friend Martin who had been retired for a few years already. Thankfully he was enthusiastic about it and so the process of selecting some destinations began. The day I had chosen to take off work each week was the Tuesday and so the ‘Tourist Tuesday’ project was born.