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Date Visited:June 22, 2023August 20, 2025

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Susan Petracco

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Susan is a travel writer from Florida. She enjoys traveling around the world, and particularly enjoys anything related to nature and wildlife.

England Day 2 – Day Trip to Cambridge
Date Visited: May 15, 2026June 11, 2026

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…

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Milan
Date Visited: June 20, 2023October 31, 2025

Milan was our first stop in Italy. We got to our hotel early in the morning after the red-eye flight, but we knew we had to keep going if we wanted to get our bodies to adjust to Europe time. So without any delay whatsoever, we did a private tour…

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England Day 1 – Arrival in London
Date Visited: May 14, 2026June 11, 2026

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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England Day 5 – Tower of London, Neals Yard, Open Gate Guinness Brewery, and the Key Ceremony
Date Visited: May 18, 2026June 11, 2026

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…

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Normandy, France
Date Visited: October 31, 2025November 21, 2025

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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Visiting the Tower of London
Date Visited: August 15, 2019August 20, 2025

My #1 bucket list item when I visited England was The Tower of London. I love medieval fiction, especially books by the late great Sharon Kay Penman, and the Tower features so much in that time period that I just had to see it myself. There are many reasons to…

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