On Sunday we went to services at Westminster Abbey. It was the sung Rite II and very similar to our Episcopalian service back home, but in such a beautiful setting. I will never forget being able to worship here! Then we went to the Blue Boar for Sunday pub roast,…
We did a self-guided tour of Westminster Abbey, and even found out we could join a short prayer session at the shrine of Edward the Confessor (which you can’t see on normal tours) led by the priest. Most people either don’t know or want to do it, as there were…
The next day, a Friday, we managed without TOO much trouble to make our way by train to Cambridge. We had a blast punting! A punt is a flat-bottomed boat that is poled like Venetian gondolas (but in all other ways dissimilar). This took us down the River Cam and…
My two daughters graduated college this year, and since they’d never been to England, we decided to celebrate with a girls’ trip. I’d never gotten a chance to do something like this with them before, so I was really excited. And it lived up to our expectations! We arrived on…
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We started our 2025 trip to Europe by flying into Paris and immediately heading to Normandy. We took a car from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport to Gare Saint-Lazare train station. From there we took a train to Caen, rented a car, and drove to Bayeux. I would NOT recommend…
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On the second day of our Rhode Island trip, we got up early and headed toward Sachuest Point National Wildlife Refuge to do some birding. However, we first stopped at Second Beach to take pictures of the beautiful sunrise! Below is a cell phone photo. From there we drove on…
Last weekend we made a trip to Rhode Island to see the leaves changing and to check off a state neither of us had ever been to before. I wanted to test out the “travel hacking” I’ve been learning, so we got tickets on Jet Blue to fly into Providence,…