Sep 9, 2011 | UK 2011
and you didn’t even know we were gone, did you? that’s because kevin said DON’T POST ON YOUR SITE WHEN WE’LL BE GONE. i guess because many people would be RUSHING OVER HERE TO STEAL THINGS. instead, we came home to a sparkling clean house. ...
Aug 28, 2011 | UK 2011
“When I get older, losing my hair, many years from now…we can rent a cottage on the Isle of Wight, if it’s not too dear…” Do you remember that part of “When I’m 64?” i love that song, and when i was trying to plan for...
Aug 27, 2011 | UK 2011
we were going to sail from Southampton on Monday, and on Saturday Kevin and I and Carol and Alan set off in their car, with the good dog Bob in the back. Their daughter Emma lives in Southampton, and they were going to spend two nights with her and her husband james...
Aug 26, 2011 | UK 2011
It was nice to wake up at our friends’ house, with no notices pasted on the walls at all, like the b&b in london. we started the day with porridge. when we went to scotland, we got great porridge every morning, but they didn’t serve it at our london...
Aug 25, 2011 | UK 2011
We took the bus on this rainy morning to the British Museum. I’d been looking forward to it a lot; many years ago i went there and remembered the rooms filled with egyptian sarcophagi, and a really cool clock. there were many other wonderful things, too, but i...
Aug 24, 2011 | UK 2011
We walked a lot again on Wednesday. first, we hopped on a bus to get to the churchill museum and war rooms. it was drizzly, so good to be up on the top of the double decker bus. that’s the london eye in the background on the left, and that’s the back of...
Aug 23, 2011 | UK 2011
Tuesday was rather rainy, but that’s ok because we spent most of the day inside Buckingham Palace. Well, we also napped in the afternoon, because of the ridiculous amount of walking we did on Monday. We were actually tired for a few days after that. anyway, i...
Aug 22, 2011 | UK 2011
We got to our hotel Sunday evening and almost no restaurants around were open, so we went to a kind of touristy place near Victoria Train Station, which was just five minutes from our b&b. that was the best thing about the place, the proximity. i had extensively...
Aug 21, 2011 | UK 2011
we flew out on Saturday, August 2oth, and flew into Heathrow. Because i just can’t sleep on a plane, and it’s not so great for kevin either, I found a daytime flight. i don’t know why there aren’t more flights during the day; it was awesome. ...
