We visited the Tower of London, and finally took a double-decker bus!!! After, we went to Dishoom for Indian food, walked the short Neal’s Yard street, and stopped by the new Guinness Open Gate Brewery, which Shelby and I both managed not to “split the G”. Then we went into…
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…
Thursday we drove from Phoenix to Sedona. Moving north, the saguaro make way for trees. It’s still desert with prickly pear and cholla (?) cacti, but not the iconic saguaro. Then the red rocks that make Sedona famous being to appear. The further you drive, the more dramatic they become….
Taliesin West We went to Taliesin West, the winter “camp” of architect Frank Lloyd Wright. It has been preserved as a UNESCO site. Afterwards, we chased down a couple of other Wright pieces: the spire he created as part of his design for the Arizona capitol building (his design was…
Although we flew into Phoenix, our first overnight was in Tucson, where we had planned some birding, outdoor activities, and general sightseeing. We drove from PHX down to Tucson, grabbing Raising Cane’s chicken for a quick dinner on the way. We don’t have those in our part of Florida, and…
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