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England Food, Favorites & Wrap Up
We left England on a beautiful, mild and sunny day. We had been there for four and half weeks and had really enjoyed that time. England was easy to love for everyone: we had enjoyed all the new places and experiences without having a language barrier plus we benefited from the freedom of traveling around…
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Thirsk: The World of James Herriot
On Monday, August 28th we took the train from York to Thirsk, then walked into town from the train station to visit The World of James Herriot – where they have preserved the home and surgery of veterinarian James Alfred “Alf” Wright. Wright used the pen name James Herriot when writing stories, later published together…
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Book Journal: Death Comes to Pemberly
I love books and I love reading. At home, I keep a book journal and have done so for over twenty years. I keep it simple and don’t follow a specific formula except for recording the book title, author and when I finished it. Below each entry, I write a short note about it –…
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York
We left Alnwick Castle after a delicious and relaxing lunch and headed to York, the last city on our United Kingdom itinerary. We arrived there in the late afternoon and headed to the apartment we had booked for four nights. It was a lovely little apartment on Priory street in an old building with lots…
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Alnwick Castle
We left Edinburgh Scotland on August 25th and traveled to Alnwick (rhymes with manic) England where we spent one night so we could visit the castle there. Arlie had asked to put this on the itinerary during our planning time back in the spring. Alnwick Castle is where some of the first two Harry Potter…
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Hadrian’s Wall & A Good Story
Hadrian’s Wall is a stone wall built by the Roman army in 122 AD while Hadrian was ruling the empire. It spans the entire width of Northern England, an impressive seventy-three miles, and marks the northern boundary of the Roman Empire on the Island. Hadrian’s Wall today is only a fraction of the size it…
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“The Best Laid Plans of . . .
. . . of mice and men often go awry.” How appropriate that this quote is from Robert Burns, one of Scotland’s most celebrated and well-known poets, seeing how our plans to see Scotland did not pan out. Our time in the Lake District began what we planned to be a two-week “road-trip style” jaunt…
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The Lake District
We left the Cotswolds on August 15th and headed to the Lake District. It was a long travel day because of having to return the rental car in Oxford and the combinations of trains and buses to get to Keswick (Kez – ick), the town where we stayed. The Lake District is England’s largest and…
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The Cotswolds
After Bath, we spent a week (August 8th thru the 15th) in the Cotswolds. It was a relaxing week and somewhat of a vacation inside this trip. We chose to stay in a quaint little cottage in Blockley because it’s the iconic filming location of the BBC show Father Brown based on GK Chesterton’s short…
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Stonehenge, Take Two and a Travel Chum
Our second attempt to see Stonehenge was a success. The last day of our stay in Bath we caught a train and headed to Salisbury, then got on a bus that’s specifically for going to the Stonehenge site, complete with audio ports and disposable earbuds to listen to historical information and insights on the way. …
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