Remember, Remember the Fifth of November
Americans, for the most part, know that there’s any significance to this date–the 5th of November–from the movie “V for Vendetta” and the graphic novel [Read More…]
Britain
Robin Hood Pageant, Nottingham
A Joust! One of the questions this nomadic empty-nest travel couple is asked by friends and family back home is whether we ever encounter language [Read More…]
Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem Pub
Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem Inn and Pub One of the most common observations Americans make when they first visit Europe is just how old things [Read More…]
A Sunday Drive in the Cotswolds
Our Driving Route Tour of the Cotswolds For postcard-perfect touring and hundreds of pictures of quintessentially English thatched-roof houses, fields of sheep partitioned by low [Read More…]
In the Birthplace of the Bard
From The House Shakespeare Might Have Been Born In Shakespeare wrote in the dozen or so years before 1600 and the dozen or so years [Read More…]
Favorite Pictures from England and Scotland
Haircut Time in Manchester, England Here are a few of our favorite pictures from England and Scotland… Early Copy of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Manchester [Read More…]
Glasgow’s Riverside Transportation Museum and the Future of Museum Tech
The Oldest (Known) Bicycle in the World Not all museums in the United Kingdom are the hodge-podge collections we’ve described in previous blogs. At least [Read More…]
The Cathedral Church of Saint Mungo, Glasgow
Not much writing in today’s blog, just “another cathedral”. You’d think we’d get tired of seeing them, but we don’t. This is the Cathedral Church [Read More…]
Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow
We’ve observed recently that a few of the British museum’s we’ve visited were hodge-podge collections of art and history (sometimes with a little science thrown [Read More…]
The Glasgow Necropolis
We’ve taken a macabre liking to cemeteries. If you’ve been following our progress through the UK, you’ll remember our blog a few weeks ago about [Read More…]