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England #29- the journey home/wrap up
Ohhh, how sad it was to have to leave England and travel back home!!! Of course I missed Baker B and the kitties terribly, but I wanted them to join me in England – not for me to return to the US...
OMG, I am… almost finished. So now I’m going to be experiencing the sad end of a wonderful trip all over again. I’ve got one more entry after this one, the journey home/wrap up one. And that is I...
England #28.1 – Avebury, Part One
I’m making this into two entries because we went to Avebury twice- the first time was the Stonehenge/Barge/Avebury/Marlborough day (Tuesday May 9, 2017; yes I have officially lapped myself) when ...
England #27 – a quick pass through Wells, Somerset
This will be mostly pictures, since we didn’t spend much time in the very pretty and very tiny town of Wells . Wells is the smallest city in England, with the exception of the City of London, whi...
England #26- Stonehenge and the Barge
Tuesday, May 9, 2017 – we were off to Wiltshire! Specifically to Stonehenge, with stops in Alton Barnes, Avebury and Marlborough. We’ve been to all of them before, but I can’t get enough of Wilts...
England #25.2 – Glastonbury Tor
Onward to the Glastonbury Tor! The Tor is just amazing. In the early 1100s there was a chapel there, which was destroyed by an earthquake in 1275, then was rebuilt in the early 1300s. The tower i...
England #25.1 – Glastonbury Abbey
Clearly I AM capable of making more than one entry every six months– maybe when I’m done spitting these England ones out, I will remember that. And make one more than one entry every six months. ...
England #24 – first Glastonbury Day
The first time Kim and I went to England, in 2010, we kind of skirted Glastonbury – we went to the Glastonbury Tor, but somehow managed not to see anything at all of the town itself. That was the...
England #23 – a side trip to Castle Combe
A quick and picture-intensive post about our visit to Castle Combe, which is a gorgeous little Wiltshire village north of Bath. Only 12 or so miles north, yet it took FOREVER to get there. Of cou...
England #22- one more round of gorgeous Bath
I’ll repeat what I said last entry, and apologize for what will hopefully be a tremendous influx of entries over the next few days… I need to finish this!!! A year ago today I was in England, and...
England #21 – Bath again, featuring the Roman Baths
I’m just going to apologize right now for what will hopefully be a tremendous influx of entries over the next few days… I need to finish this!!! A year ago today I was in England, and I am STILL ...
England #20 – an easy day in Bath at last
Sunday, May 7, 2017 – our first full day of the Bath and Nearby(ish) Areas week! After the bizarrely long and exhausting drive up from Cornwall on Saturday, we’d decided to have an easy, low-driv...
England #19 – the Peasedown St. John Lodgings
Wow, two entries in less than a week! Work is bizarrely slow today, so I may as well make the most of it. I’d love to finish this by April 28th, the date we left on the trip last year. Not too li...
Saturday, May 6 (2017!) continued- in which we reach the end of Dartmoor, and head north to Peasedown St. John. With a stop in North Tawton, which is where the wonderful Jam and Jerusalem (Clatt...
England #17- more moors, driving to Bath
I’ve given up all hope of finishing this before a year has officially gone by … because we left for England on April 28, 2017 and this entry is just the first day of Week 2. Oh, well – when I’m d...
England #16- driving through a bit of Dartmoor...
…after the ruins. Here is one big downside of waiting so long to write about the trip— now it’s hard to remember what part of Dartmoor was on May 5, the day we went to the two castles and drove b...
England #15- Okehampton Castle, Devon
I really AM going to finish this one day. Or at the very least move on to Week 2. SO, here we are, still on our last day in Cornwall, May 5! Although technically we’re in Devon at this point, as ...
England #14 - Launceston Castle, Cornwall
SO, one entry back, we toured the Bodmin Jail, and then we set out over the Bodmin Moor for Launceston Castle, Okehampton Castle, and a drive back across Dartmoor. Yes, it WAS a long last day in ...
England #13 – Bodmin, featuring the scary haunted...
…Bodmin Jail At last, we have reached our…sob… final day in Cornwall. Of course the fact that we were headed out the next day for Bath made us a lot more cheerful about it, but boy there was a lo...
England #12 - a meetup in Penzance...
…and tour of surrounding areas. I am starting to think I will never ever get done with this - we took the trip in MAY!!! Both prior trips I moaned about how long it was taking me to write up my t...
England #11 - wandering around Port Isaac (part 2)
Part 1 of Port Isaac is back one entry, detailing our immense difficulty in actually finding Port Isaac thanks to the Google Maps GPS From Hell. Port Isaac was well worth the effort to find, thou...
England #10 - dropping in on Doc Martin at Port Isaac
I forgot to mention in my last entry how much I loved driving - it was kind of bizarre, how much I loved it. Even at the time, I was thinking it was a little weird that I was finding driving in E...
England #9 - Tintagel Castle (part 2)
I started an entry about the gorgeous breathtaking Tintagel one back, but it’s so stunning that it needs two entries just for the pictures. Cornwall is just unbelievably beautiful. We walked all...
England #8 - Tintagel Castle (part 1)
Two entries back is the first half of this day, in which we planned to go to Tintagel Castle and Port Isaac, but by happy accident ended in Padstow. Upon reflection I’m not sure why we decided to...
England #7 - A trip to Padstow
OMG I’m making an England Trip Entry! Finally. I see my last one was August 3. I am already breaking my Seriously Glacial Posting Times from the last trip, and not in a good way. And on a side n...
