¿Que? Glad you asked! How about dinner served by Manuel, while Basil Fawlty and Cybil add to the inevitable chaos in a perfectly unnecessary manner? While in London for a …
Robin’s ‘hood: Sherwood Forest
Woo hoo, we dodged that malicious Sheriff of Nottingham! A few years back we watched the excellent BBC series “Robin Hood” and loved the contemporary reboot. Not long after, we …
Blooming Right on Kew!
I am not a gardener. Nor do I play one on TV. But I enjoy nature’s beauty in any form! Hiking through heather in the Scottish Highlands, walking along wildflowers …
FOR THE NINTH TIME: ALAS, POOR YORK!
“Alas, poor York! I knew this city, Horatio, a city of infinite beauty, of most excellent sightseeing, it has borne me on its back of amazing history”. OK that’s enough …
Memorial Musings: Turing’s Sad Triumph
How come England produces so many geniuses in so many fields? From Isaac Newton to William Shakespeare, Lennon & McCartney to Stephen Hawking, John Cleese to Dorothy Hodgkin (first female …
Blowing off Steam in the UK
I just finished reading Bill Bryson’s new UK travel book “The Road to Little Dribbling”, the hilarious laugh-out-loud sequel to his equally hilarious “Notes from a Small Island”. Bryson’s forever …
Islands, Pirates & Moors
The English Moors…. images of ominous skies, fog, forbidding landscapes, but also desolate beauty, hiking – and ponies! Take Dartmoor, forever linked to The Hound of the Baskervilles, perhaps the …
Abbeys and Castles and Saints, oh my!
The Scottish Borders region with its Saint Cuthbert’s Way had been on my hiking hit list for quite a while. February is “verra arrly in the season, laddie” as one …
Lions on the Loose in the Cotswolds!
The Cotswolds are arguably the prettiest region of merry old England. It’s chock-a-block with picturesque villages, stunning scenery, charming country hotels, welcoming B&Bs and plenty of pubs to refuel – …
A Hadrianic Maniac!
OK, I admit it. I am obsessed with a Roman Emperor who died some 1,900 years ago. I’m not sure where this came from, exactly. Growing up in Europe where …
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