NORWAY | Thursday, 16 Jun 2022 | Views [492]
THIS IS OUR SECOND NORWAY CRUISE—it’s really the only affordable way to see Europe’s most expensive country. Our first two ports-of-call were nothing special. Haugesund, once a mainstay of the herring fishing fleet, now makes its living ... Read more >
NORWAY | Thursday, 16 Jun 2022 | Photo Gallery
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UNITED KINGDOM | Saturday, 11 Jun 2022 | Views [553]
WITH THE HIGH PRICES CHARGED TO VISIT English Heritage and National Trust sites around the UK, it comes as a pleasant surprise that London’s Museums are free! You can tour the British Museum, National Gallery, Royal Academy and both Tates and not ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 9 Jun 2022 | Views [543]
WE KNOW MANY FOLKS WHO travel to London just for the theatre. It’s not why we’re here but when in Rome (or London) . . . . We’re Phantom ’d out, already seen Jersey Boys in London, couldn’t care less about Back to the ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 8 Jun 2022 | Views [474]
WITH A SIGH OF RELIEF WE RETURNED the rental car at Heathrow. Our first purchase was a pair of Oyster Cards for the Underground loaded with £20. It's our ticket to ride, just swipe and go and we can travel beneath London for the next six days. ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Tuesday, 7 Jun 2022 | Photo Gallery
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UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 6 Jun 2022 | Views [398]
SHREWTON IS A CUTE VILLAGE just a stone’s throw from the famous Stonehenge. The “Forge” AirBnB is about the same size as our former RV. It is neat and tidy, Jo has decorated it stylishly, everything is new and works! It’s convenient ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Saturday, 4 Jun 2022 | Views [420]
JANE AUSTEN IS DEAD. THIS IS OLD NEWS but good news! An old joke, too. Actually I like Jane’s novels—the films, too—but the fact remains that her remains are buried in Winchester Cathedral. Rumor has it that only three people attended ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 2 Jun 2022 | Photo Gallery
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UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 1 Jun 2022 | Views [662]
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 [429]
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 [332]
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 [640]
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 [616]
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 [332]
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 [311]
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 [318]
“ …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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