There is something about the familiarity/blandness/commonality of something like a Holiday Inn Express that can be soothing and relaxing after a couple of days of unknown lodging. Not that any of the places we had stayed caused major consternation, a cold room or a tiny shower notwithstanding. I guess it is more along the lines […]
If you look at a map of the United Kingdom, the route from Worcester to Chester seems fairly straightforward. A careful route of “A” roads (A449 to A442 to A458 to…you get the idea) will take you directly to Chester in a little over two hours (well, two hours according to Google Maps; there is […]
After a fairly “cool” night at the Tintern Abbey Hotel (I am beginning to believe that many places turn the heat off at 11:00 PM), we awoke to a fairly chilly room, and what you might charitably call a “warm” shower after letting the water run for about 10 minutes. There were only three couples […]
The next leg of our tour of England and Wales took us from Bath to Caerleon, northeast of Cardiff, Wales; Cardiff, then up the Wye River valley to Tintern to see the 12th century abbey ruins there. After another sumptuous breakfast at Apsley House, we headed out on the highways and motorways towards Wales. After […]
On Thursday the 20th, we had breakfast at our hotel, Apsley House, a wonderful bed & breakfast a bit west of the Bath City Centre. Our original plan for the day was to visit Stonehenge, Salisbury, Avebury – all different henges and stone rings – then work our way back to Bath. Instead, to start […]
Still a day behind in adding posts, but that’s about how it goes when you can barely keep your eyes open. Wednesday morning we were greeted by another gloriously sunny if chilly day when we awoke in St Ives, Cornwall. After breakfast at the hotel (included in the tariff), we set out for Tintagel Castle, […]
Yesterday we drove from Weymouth, Dorchester, to St Ives, Cornwall, via what was planned to be Dorchester (Roman Town House), St. Michael’s Mount, Penzance, Land’s End, then up to St Ives. The land of the high-speed interstate, this is not. We left Weymouth after a wonderful “proper English breakfast” -I was even able to get […]
We arrived at Heathrow this morning at 0615 GMT – about 13 hours after we left our house in Saint Louis. After a lengthy queue through the “UK Border”, we picked up our bags but happily did not get stopped at Customs (we went though the “Nothing to Declare” door, but saw other people seemingly […]
