The botanic garden also has a fantastic conservatory, which just kept going, and going, and going. There was an orchid room, and a fern room, and a begonia room, and a Spanish hacienda garden, and a bonsai room. And more. I really enjoyed our visit there, and absolutely must go back, because […]
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On Saturday (6/17), we headed out to the botanical garden, which was an easy subway ride from our hotel. The place is huge – there’s also an insectarium and a biodome you can visit – I don’t know how people do it. We managed maybe a quarter of the outside gardens, and
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This garden was a really cool find – it’s attached to the Chateau Ramezay Museum and Historic site, but had free access. It’s set up with sections reminiscent of an earlier 18th century garden in New France. There’s a potager, an orchard and ornamental sections. I was so excited to see this – it’s
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Here’s where the vacation became international – on Friday morning, we headed up to Montreal. (It’s an easy two hour drive from Burlington. What ended up not being easy was finding our hotel, since they’re rebuilding the main bridge over the St. Lawrence, and the road closures are epic, and random.) We stayed
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The other garden we visited was Descanso, which is more of a local garden. Not as large as Huntington, but certainly beloved – the line to get in was crazy! I was able to use my Coastal Maine Botanical Garden reciprocal membership here – first use of that for the year, even ahead
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‘ve been to the Huntington once before, the first time I ever visited my sister, back in the misty depths of time before I owned a digital camera (hard to believe there was a time when that was the case). It’s one of those places you can visit many, many times because it’s so
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I got back on Tuesday from a whirlwind trip to California. I had originally been scheduled to fly out the Tuesday before, but Mother Nature chose to grace us with sixteen inches of snow that day. Fortunately, I’d seen the writing on the wall that weekend, and moved my flight out to Thursday.
We spent our last full day in London wandering around the British Museum. This was a strategic decision – we weren’t walking over a wide area, and they do provide regular places to sit down. Even, so BF tapped out not long after lunch, so K and I ended up heading off for
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On the next day, we learned that we’re apparently only meant to go to Richmond by public transportation once a trip. We attempted to go to Hampton Court, but nearly were trapped when trying to transfer from the tube to a train. A tube train had gotten stuck on the track. (We
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