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
After the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, I took the subway over to DUMBO, grabbed some lunch at Almondine, and took that down to the Brooklyn Bridge Park. There are great views of the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges, as well as the Manhattan skyline. Really great place to have lunch on a warm day. Once I was
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On Tuesday morning, I hit the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. I was all excited because I was going to be able to use my Reciprocal membership from our Botanical Garden, and it turns out it’s free on Tuesday anyway. The coolest thing in bloom at the moment was the water lily collection. That happened to be
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My first night there, I wanted to be back to my room by 10:00 (because I’m officially a little too much of a Castle fan-girl, and needed to see the season premiere). So, after reading recommendations that the Empire State Building was really neat after dark because you had great views of all the lights,
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I’m back from a three night, way too quick trip to New York City. I’ve never been before, other than a couple of drive throughs on the way to family trips to DC. (I remember driving by Macy’s when I was twelve, and I remember my father pointing out the World Trade Center towers on
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