Our first full day was our day trip out of London. Here’s where having a friend at our destination was a plus – we were able to drive. (Why that was helpful will become clear with our second destination for the day.) We started out in Oxford. We had a lovely look at the Ashmolean Museum, which […]
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I guess we’ve got a little case of revenge traveling this year. This is the now the third time I’ve been out of the country in 2023. We booked the trip about two months ago. We decided it would be nice to go to a bigger city for Christmas, and JetBlue is now flying to London,
This year’s day trip was to Dover, to see the White Cliffs, and the Castle. The cliffs very conveniently have a section managed by the National Trust, with parking and a couple different options for tea rooms. There are a couple different walking paths, though the one closest to the cliff-side has by far
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So my sister got married on the third. Which meant we got to go out to CA for the event. (I was a bridesmaid.) The family part of the trip is covered on Facebook, and elsewhere, because this is not a family oriented sort of blog, but the BF and I did
So I’ve back from a week in the Bay Area of California. My sister moved up there from LA last Spring, and a bunch of us decided to join her for Christmas. (A good thing too, as they’re not terribly fond if the place, and are seriously thinking about move back to LA.) There will
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This summer’s trip was to Washington DC. We built the trip around a Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds concert, which meant we were crazy enough to go venturing into the craziest humidity zone known to man. (Ok, that’s the entire South, and I did live in Florida for a summer, and I really did
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I’m back from Arizona. It’s snowing right now, and I’m finding it hard to believe that just yesterday, I was looking at cactus. I have about 500 pictures to go through, and five books read, so those will be coming out over the next several days. In the meantime, a few non-pictorial highlights: Short Leash
Versailles is an utterly amazing spectacle. It is grand on a scale that I’ve never experienced before. Standing there, looking out from the Palace to the Grand Canal is a glimpse into a very different world. Versailles is a bit of a trip outside of Paris proper. We took the RER train (basically the commuter
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Our first full day in Paris, we decided to do some shopping. Which worked out to involve a whole lot of incidental walking. We started the morning at Notre Dame, because, well, we’re in Paris, so we had to go to Notre Dame. Which is fully as fascinating as a medieval cathedral should be. We
I’m back from a lovely weekend Down East, which included this fantastic interlude at the Jordan Pond House in Acadia National Park. Because a visit to Acadia is not complete without tea and popovers out on the House’s back yard, overlooking Jordan Pond. BF and I brought our friend L along, and had a lovely,
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