It’s Hallowe’en, the time I go batty if I haven’t done a nice long multi-day through-hike yet! England is my go-to country for these, and for a previous year’s Hallowe’en …
Sleeper Agent: Aberdeen to London
The Sleeper Agent was on a mission. He wasn’t a double-oh so, no life or death stuff but still, he wanted to fly under the radar. Incognito. No Travel Agent …
Iceland Nice Land Part 1: How to Get Here
Oh me and my poor poor self! I “had to” go to Europe for family reasons and decided to stop over in Iceland for a few days, using WOW Airlines. …
Live from London: Remembrance Day
After all these decades of UK travel, I finally managed to plan Remembrance Day in London, the heart of wartime Albion. It’s the 99th Remembrance Day and while the oldest …
Winter warmth in the British Midlands
Winter in the British Midlands: now there’s something you won’t hear much about from the Tourist Board! Yet, we had a marvelous time here a ways back, spending Christmas through …
Live from London: a Faulty Fawlty Experience!
¿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 …
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