Thinking Out Loud
I am settled into the lounge at the Sunnydowns Hotel in Colwyn Bay, North Wales. I’ve been without Internet access for a few days so will try to get caught up with the trip. Photos are busy uploading in the background while I type. It’s been a busy couple of days… We left Stratford on [...]
Out of the Lake District and on to Wales on this grand tour of England! We had pegged Chester as a good stopping point on a short driving day and we were not disappointed. This ancient walled city is right on the border. After a quick lunch at a spot on the second floor that [...]
We came to Stratford in search of William Shakespeare, and he wasn’t hard to find. Stratford was the bard’s birth place. He married Anne Hathaway here but pretty quickly left for London where he gained fame as an actor and writer. He returned to Stratford at the end of his life, though, and is buried [...]
Just a few miles outside of London is what is reputed to be Henry VIII’s favorite palace: Hampton Court. He would take a barge down the Thames from London. The palace originally belonged to Cardinal Woolsey, Henry’s Lord Chamberlain. When Woolsey failed to obtain Henry’s divorce from his first queen, Katherine of Aragon, he fell [...]
We started out a little earlier today. Again rode a bus and the Picadilly Tube Line into London. Got off at Picadilly Circus and made our way to Trafalgar Square. Along the way, we stopped into St. Martin’s in the Field to check on the Cafe in the Crypt and check out the church and [...]
I’m really too tired to post, but I don’t want to forget…my parents and I started our two-week tour today. We had wonderful English porridge for breakfast then headed to downtown London from our hotel near the airport. We managed to navigate public transportation, first a bus, then the tube, to get to Waterloo station. [...]
My husband is heading out to do some volunteer work for a local agency that builds and repairs houses. So, we’re up early. It’s not even 8 AM and the dogs have been walked, chickens have been fed, and there’s a fresh pot of coffee brewing. I have a few things on my list of [...]
Our dog–a 14-year-old black lab–was very much part of our routine. Ivy slept in with us and was content to hang out with us, more person than dog. Then, we took on Zuzu and Tina Turner. They had come from a home where the schedule really revolved around them. So, now, instead of the dogs [...]