Destinations

Christmas Tree and Lights, Kirkby Stephen England One of the things we’ve most looked forward to this year was spending some of the holiday season [Read More…]

A few days after our arrival in Kirkby Stephen, a picture-perfect little village in the English Cumbrian countryside, we were presented with an opportunity to [Read More…]

King Henry VIII One afternoon in London we popped into the National Portrait Gallery, a wing of London’s National Gallery museum (housing–do we need to [Read More…]

For Christmas a couple of years ago I gave Lori a package of a half-dozen dance lessons at our local Arthur Murray studio back home [Read More…]

The British Museum, London At one point, the British Empire covered a quarter of the globe. Think about that for a moment: at the height [Read More…]

The Sign of the Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese Somewhere along the line, we’ve set the goal of visiting each of the 10 pubs on this [Read More…]

  Old Spitalfields Market, London’s East End If shopping is on your to-do list when visiting London, you can either spend your pounds the conventional [Read More…]

London’s Natural History Museum (and Ice Skating Rink) I confess I wasn’t particularly looking forward to visiting the Natural History Museum in London. While I [Read More…]

221B Baker Street, London One summer when I was a kid, I picked up a copy of “The Complete Sherlock Holmes” by Sir Arthur Conan [Read More…]

Westminster Abbey If you weren’t aware, many of the more popular Church of England cathedrals charge an entrance fee. We have no problem with the [Read More…]