So the biggest part of our trip was to Cornwall, which my mother’s choice for her birthday trip, as she’s pretty much always wanted to visit there. We rented a cottage for a week. We ended up going with a place in Callington, which is near the border with Devon, and is pretty much on […]
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 come to call the Forced March. I remember little from that day, but it
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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.
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Since I was already on the far Uptown side of Manhattan, I took the subway back down to Central Park, and walked through on the 85th street cut through, which goes by Belvedere Castle. You can climb all the way up into the tower, and there are some great views from there. The castle is
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On Wednesday, I started the day with the looong subway ride up to the Cloisters. If you take the A train to the 190th Street stop, it puts you out right at the entrance to Fort Tryon. It’s then a ten minute walk through the park to the museum. There’s also a bus, if you
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Holy seething mass of humanity, Batman! Now, I really do live in a city. It’s the largest city in my state, even. Walking through Times Square made me feel like I’m from some village in the absolute middle of nowhere. I swear there were more people packed into that square than live in all of
