How The Victorians Defined Our Modern Christmas, Part 1
Christmas Display at Harrods in London Happy Black Friday, everyone! May your deals be plentiful and sweet, and may your checkout lines move quickly! We [Read More…]
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Life On This Side of the Pond, Part 4: Cool Stuff
Steampunk Pendants So now for our European-inspired wishlist, the things we’ve seen, used, enjoyed while in Europe that we would like to put in our [Read More…]
Life On This Side of the Pond, Part 3: Driving
Between June 15 when we left on this trip and on December 22 when we step off the Queen Mary in New York, there will [Read More…]
Life On This Side of the Pond, Part 2
A Typical English Neighborhood We continue yesterday’s blog by going… Around The House Europeans generally fill their homes with the same stuff that we do. [Read More…]
Life On This Side of the Pond, Part 1
We’ve often commented how different this long-term travel is. Settling in for a few weeks, longer than a typical vacation but shorter than actually calling [Read More…]
Tux: Check! Hat: Check!
Ready for the Queen Mary…Almost! Jacket and pants, Men’s clothing store, Istanbul: $100 Patent leather shoes, Amazon.co.uk: $35 Pleated formal shirt, Amazon.co.uk: $25 Black satin [Read More…]
How Do You Know This Stuff?
A Reading Room of the John Rylands Library, Manchester, England One of the questions I’m often asked by our friends and family about our travel [Read More…]
29 Years And Counting
Today’s our anniversary, so you’ll forgive us if we keep this brief. 29 years ago today we were married at Saint Joseph’s church in Gulfport [Read More…]
Robin Hood
Robin Hood Statue, Nottingham It’s doubtful that Nottinghamshire’s most famous resident ever actually lived, yet it’s equally certain that a number of people in medieval [Read More…]
Cemeteries, Part 3 of 3 – Happy Halloween!
Istanbul, Turkey “This is what I expected, but not so soon.” William Reese, somewhere in New England. Died 1872 Holyhead Island, Ireland Istanbul, Turkey “That’s [Read More…]