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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The timing of our trip was purely based on the BF needing to put in for his longer blocks of PTO at the beginning of the year, and this week looking as good as any other that was available when he was called. But, at a certain point (maybe March?) I realized I was
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Monday of the trip was a bank holiday, but it was also the last of the iffy days of weather, so because we are crazy, we decided to indulge in my aforementioned trip to Liberty. This involved starting at Covent Garden, wandering through to Leicester Square to Trafalgar Square, and eventually down Regents Street
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One really cool thing about having friends where you visit is that you get a little more homey experience. So the Sunday of our trip, we visited K’s aunt and uncle, and had a Sunday roast lamb. With trifle for dessert! We also got to take a turn through the Woodland Gardens at
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