It's not about re-living someone else's journey
Caen Hill locks: A flight of 29 locks between Rowde and the town of Devises. To complete the series of locks can take as little as 4 hours or as long as 8 hours depending upon the amount of traffic.
Art museums take my breath away. It’s the combination of creative brilliance, history, and beauty. I enter the buildings and the awe from being so close to originals created by masters dominates the experience. A docent brings me back down and focuses me. As… Continue Reading “ART MUSEUMS: Taking it up a notch!”
The Shoreditch Street Art Tour https://www.shoreditchstreetarttours.co.uk/ was one of my favorite experiences in London this year. Let me get this out of the way… I regret not having seen some of the London standards for tourists (Big Ben, Tower of London, Buckingham Palace, etc.).… Continue Reading “LONDON: STREET ART IN SHOREDITCH”
I think one of the things I dread mostly about vacationing abroad is the flight to get there. We live in Orange County, California, so we’re looking at a 13-hour flight at minimum. To me, that’s a long time. But a precursor to that… Continue Reading “FLIGHTS 101”
Last May we had rented a narrowboat on the Kennett and Avon Canal for a two-week vacation. I had planned to dock a couple nights in Bath, so the opportunity to visit Stonehenge was high on my list. Now I had heard to expect… Continue Reading “ENGLAND: Stonehenge Inner Circle on a budget”