Read for the RIP VIII Reading Challenge. Gwen’s father is a bard, and has been summoned back to the court of King Owain Gwynedd to perform at the wedding of the king’s daughter to one of the neighboring kings. On the journey there, they find the wedding party of King Anarawd slain on the road,
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Read for the RIP VIII Reading Challenge. In picking books for my vacation reading, since I knew I was going to try and concentrate on RIP theme related books, I did try to make sure I picked a few lighter books. This one seemed ideal – it’s set in London (one of the locations I
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On Day 4, we headed back out to Heathrow to pick up our car, so we could drive to Cornwall. And since it was right on our way, we decided to stop at Stonehenge. Stonehenge has changed a lot since I was there last. It used to be in the Y formed from the junction
Our last full day in London had the worst weather, so no pictures, or I would have killed my camera. We started the day at the British Museum, which was having a special exhibit on Pompeii and Herculaneum. It was a fascinating exhibit. The early part was arranged as if it were a Roman house,
Within Kew Gardens, is Kew Palace, an actual royal palace, most closely associated with King George III (it’s where he was kept when he was having his spells of madness, but was also the family summer home). It’s a surprisingly small place (and that’s even knowing there was another wing there when the king was
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Our Thursday in London ended up being the day with the best weather, which was fortuitous, as we’d already planned to go to Kew on that day. I’ve wanted to go to Kew since I was aware it existed, and since this was my mother’s birthday trip, and she’s also a garden person, that meant
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For any of you that have been to Europe, you know that first day is all about jet lag. The first time I went to England (with the BF that time), our friend K brought us on what we have affectionately came to call the Forced March. I remember little from that day, but it
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Read for the RIP VIII Reading Challenge. I do watch the tv show Bones, so I was aware that it’s very loosely based on a series of books about an anthropologist names Temperance Brennan. She does help the police solve murders, but that really is about as connected with the show as the books get.
Deja Dead – Kathy Reichs Read More »
This is a novella from the 500 Kingdoms series, in which the Tradition forces people into certain paths based on fairy tale characters, sometimes to good, sometimes to bad. In this story, we’re dealing with the Greek pantheon, and it turns out that they’re half-Fae, and as soon as they have enough people that believe
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I’m back from my epic vacation with my mother and sister, to England and France, for about two weeks. Still a little jet laggy at the moment, and I have about 2110 pictures to wade through, so there will be pictures, and some write ups, but they’ll be coming out over the next several days.
The Big Trip – the UK and France, September 2013 Read More »
