UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 2 Jun 2022 | Photo Gallery
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UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 1 Jun 2022 | Views [112]
WILLESLEIGH MANOR HOUSE IS OUR “poor-man’s Downton Abbey” for a few days. The 18 th Century Georgian home near Barnstaple could use some TLC but then, couldn’t we all. For us it is convenient to some interesting drives into ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Sunday, 29 May 2022 | Views [122]
THE ENGLISH TAKE THEIR “RIGHT TO ROAM” seriously. Well-worn public footpaths—some have been in use for more than 1000 years!—run beside busy roads, along scenic cliffs, through gates and over stiles in farmers’ fields. Signposts ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Friday, 27 May 2022 | Views [110]
ANNEXE HIDEAWAY AIRBnB IN TRURO isn’t as central as we could wish but it is far and away one of the best—trig, tidy with all the mod/cons and just a quick shot to the A30 and the rugged scenery, ancient sites and oh-so-cute villages that ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Friday, 27 May 2022 | Photo Gallery
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UNITED KINGDOM | Tuesday, 24 May 2022 | Views [107]
ADVERTISED AS “185 MILLION YEARS OF EARTH’S HISTORY in 95 miles of coast,” the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site extends from western Dorset into eastern Devon. The name comes from the best known of the geological periods found within ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 23 May 2022 | Views [113]
THE DRIVE FROM NEWHAVEN TO TORQUAY is a long one—it took nearly six-hours. We didn’t have time to stop along the famous Jurassic Coast, nor would we have wanted to—Sunday no day to compete with the locals on their day out. But we did ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Sunday, 22 May 2022 | Photo Gallery
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UNITED KINGDOM | Saturday, 21 May 2022 | Views [93]
THE ENGLISH LOOK UPON BRIGHTON THE WAY my New Jersey friends revere Seaside Heights. In truth, neither stacks up well against the “real” beaches of the world—but you make do with what you’ve got. We visited Brighton not to sit ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 19 May 2022 | Views [105]
TO BE SURE, THERE ARE HIDDEN GEMS to be discovered in the Southeast. The town of Deal, for example. It isn’t nearly as old as Canterbury nor were poems written about it. In fact, Deal in the 17 th Century was intentionally kept on the down-low—... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 16 May 2022 | Views [85]
“ …SPECIALLY FROM EVERY SHIRES ENDE/Of Engelond to Caunterbury they wende/The hooly blisful martir for to seke/That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke .” So begins Chaucer’s Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
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UNITED KINGDOM | Saturday, 14 May 2022 | Photo Gallery
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UNITED KINGDOM | Friday, 13 May 2022 | Views [112]
KATE'S AIRBnB IN OXFORD WAS HER FAMILY HOME. It has everything that we could want— plus a fabulous garden! It’s actually in Crowley, an easy mile’s walk from Oxford University and not far, as it happens, from fictiously famous county ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 9 May 2022 | Photo Gallery
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IRELAND | Monday, 9 May 2022 | Views [120]
THE FIRST PART OF THE CRUISE was for transportation—we had to cross the Atlantic in some fashion. The rest of the trip was selfish indulgence, pure and simple. We had never been to the Channel Islands and we were looking forward to seeing an old ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Sunday, 1 May 2022 | Views [111]
EVEN IF, LIKE US, YOU’VE VISITED ALL THE PORTS-of-call before, a trans-Atlantic cruise from the States to Europe is a great deal—if you have the time, that is. At a “school zone” cruising speed of 20 knots, it took us 15-days ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Saturday, 30 Apr 2022 | Photo Gallery
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USA | Saturday, 9 Apr 2022 | Views [162]
SOME WOULD CALL IT INSANITY, doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. But sometimes perseverance pays off. You may question the sanity of us birders—even we ourselves admit to a certain amount of quirkiness. After all, ... Read more >
USA | Friday, 8 Apr 2022 | Views [168]
SABINE WOODS IS AN IMPORTANT REST STOP on the Texas/Louisiana border for birds migrating to and from Central America, 27 acres of live oaks gnalred by hurricanes. Sabine is privately owned and managed by the Texas Ornithological Society but the trails ... Read more >
USA | Saturday, 2 Apr 2022 | Views [184]
THE MORRIS-BROWN HOUSE IN BROWNSVILLE was built in 1909 and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The Morris-Brown Cottage—where we stayed—is not. Our host Steve, who owns both plus another six apartments in a separate building ... Read more >
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