UNITED KINGDOM | Tuesday, 16 Aug 2011 | Views [3036]
The Derwent valley sits upstream from Derby on the southern edge of the
Pennines. This UNESCO World
Heritage Site contains a series of 18th and 19th century cotton mills and an
industrial landscape of high historical and technological significance.... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Sunday, 14 Aug 2011 | Views [1525]
Titus Salt had a vision for a utopian town built around his textile mill. Today Saltaire is an example of a mid-19th Century industrial village highlighting the importance of the textile industry and has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Saturday, 13 Aug 2011 | Views [918]
As any fan of Dick Francis, author and former steeplechase jockey, would know, horse racing is a big thing in the UK. Attending the sport of kings at Ripon Racetrack seemed like the perfect way to spend a Saturday afternoon. We were separated from ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Friday, 12 Aug 2011 | Views [629]
Just when we think we have it all
figured out, they threw us a curve.
Take monasteries for instance.
We have visited the ruins of Cluniac and Cistercian abbeys and priories
and know the difference between them.
We have learned about ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 10 Aug 2011 | Views [605]
We are back on the Heritage trail in
Yorkshire and our first stop was Pickering Castle. It wasn’t much to look at today but William the Conqueror
himself built the first “bailey and mote” castle on the site in 1068 to
encourage obedience to ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Tuesday, 9 Aug 2011 | Views [707]
Stephanie is the last of the
Uganda group we wanted to look up.
She is the one we knew best, because for six months she was our boss at
the Jane Goodall Institute despite being half our age.
Her new passion is dog agility
training ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Sunday, 7 Aug 2011 | Views [1194]
Visiting with Paul and Wendy was more
like a blind date than an actual reunion.
When we received their email inviting us to stay, we actually had to
consult our journal to recall when and where we had met them: last year in Peru
on a bus ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 4 Aug 2011 | Views [1621]
“There once was a comely young lass
Who
stood in the sea to her ankles”
It doesn’t rhyme now but it will when the
tide comes in!
This old limerick stuck in my mind as we
traversed the mudflats on our way to ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 3 Aug 2011 | Views [593]
It rained yesterday and the forecast for tomorrow is more of the same. But summer, glorious summer, arrived in northeast England today. The temperature topped out at 20 C, that's nearly 70 degrees F! And the sun shined all day long. We were at the ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Saturday, 30 Jul 2011 | Views [772]
We
have been staying with friends in an 18th Century cottage in Barley, a small
hamlet in Lancashire. Everyone in England, it seems, claims to live in a cottage
but theirs is the real deal. The ceilings are low, the creaky stairs are steep
and ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 27 Jul 2011 | Views [1355]
Simon must have thought us daft when I asked if this would be a dry
cave or a wet cave. Our experience
in South Dakota and New Mexico has been in dry caves. They were still formed by water, and you might get a little
muddy but Wind ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Tuesday, 26 Jul 2011 | Views [738]
Connie woke me at the ungodly hour of 5:45, understandable if not
excusable, since it was to be a 300-mile day. We left the perfectly wonderful weather of Barley for the
cold and windy cliffs of Bromley on the east coast of England. Once ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Friday, 22 Jul 2011 | Views [1199]
I confess ignorance on many fronts. My misconceptions about things British are the most recent
example. Take “Britain” for
instance. I believed that Britain,
England and the United Kingdom were interchangeable. England, I have since ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 20 Jul 2011 | Views [2415]
With all of the Roman, Saxon, Norman, and Medieval castles,
priories, abbeys and such (which a friend annoyingly refers to as "rubble") we sometimes forget that England was the birthplace
of the Industrial Revolution. The
first mills ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Tuesday, 19 Jul 2011 | Views [1221]
Richard Goldsmith was the first person we met at the Kinyara Sugar
Works near Masindi, and it wasn’t long before his girlfriend, Kara March, had
volunteered to help us with our program.
This was back in 2006 when we were volunteers with the ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 14 Jul 2011 | Views [1506]
In medieval England, before Henry VIII, when being Christian meant
being Catholic, nearly every town had an abbey or a priory. No matter to which
order the monks belonged – Cistercian, Cluniac, or other; black, white or gray
– they followed the ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 11 Jul 2011 | Views [936]
There are castles . . . and there are castles!
Tintagel has its King Arthur myth, thanks to Geoffrey of
Monmouth. Berry Pomeroy is haunted
by not one, but two, ghosts. The
story of Farliegh Hungerford is one of intrigue, murder ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Sunday, 10 Jul 2011 | Views [2542]
The Roman bath and spa in Bath was expensive and crowded with tour
groups. The audio guide wasn’t
nearly as good as the one at the castle, I have seen nicer baths in Turkey and Israel,
and I was getting bored. Then I
discovered a series ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Friday, 8 Jul 2011 | Views [1755]
The names of English villages are as interesting as they are. Barleythorpe; Gigglesweek;
Adwik-upon-Deane; Hare Hatch; Leighton Buzzard; Roan of Craigoch;
Barnby-in-the-Willows; Sheepwatch; Watton of Stone; King’s Bromley;
Milton-... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 6 Jul 2011 | Views [890]
We have been quiet for fear of jinxing the deal but our house has
been under contract for several weeks.
The deal was done yesterday!
I am not sure what other “homeless” people feel but we feel
fantastic! No more worries, no
more ... Read more >
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