Jul 31, 2016 | Wales 2015
the nice thing about disembarking from the Queen Mary is that it’s fast and efficient. we walked to our assigned place for disembarking…it was the Winter Garden again. Our scheduled departure was 9:50, but when we got that at 9:30, they started herding...
Jul 29, 2016 | Wales 2015
here’s the very last video! i can’t believe it’s the final one…by this time, i think i’d shot enough video of the Queen Mary 2 interior on our crossing to Southampton, plus other videos of other trips, so these are exclusively shots of...
Jul 28, 2016 | Wales 2015
Land ho! i staggered out onto our balcony at about 4:30 on friday morning to see us going back under the Verrazano Bridge, and this ship passed us. here we are, getting closer and closer. here’s a little bit about the history of the bridge, from a...
Jul 25, 2016 | Wales 2015
Wednesday was one more day of feeling crummy, but at least we were sick on the way home, not during the hiking and sightseeing part of our trip. it was the day of the talent show, and i’m sorry i missed it, because you just never know what kind of stuff...
Jul 24, 2016 | Wales 2015
amy’s birthday! i tried to call her a couple of times, but couldn’t reach her. even though i still wasn’t feeling so great, we got tickets to the planetarium show in the afternoon. we attended the morning lecture “secrets of the...
Jul 23, 2016 | Wales 2015
Ok, here’s the crazy thing – i have no photos of all of this day! that’s because i started getting sick. no fun. we did manage to do some stuff anyway. we went to an interesting talk by a gentleman named Michael Dispezio, which was called...
Jul 22, 2016 | Wales 2015
sunday morning we got up early again and started watching a fascinating documentary about Roger Ebert. It was still chilly outside, about 57 or so. one great thing about making the transatlantic crossing on the QM2 is that we gradually set the clocks forward, or...
Jul 21, 2016 | Wales 2015
We got up early, and kevin brought me tea in bed. Nice! We went to the breakfast buffet at about 7:30, and because it was so early it wasn’t crowded at all. also nice. i loved that they had fresh figs. nobody was out walking, either. it was a cold and windy...
Jul 17, 2016 | Wales 2015
first full day of sailing! i got tickets for the planetarium show, and kevin and i decided to go to the astronomy lecture. at a little after ten in the morning, when i was going down in the elevator to get us another round of tea/coffee in the little area near the...
Jul 15, 2016 | Wales 2015
here’s a bit of video of the path in the New Forest, as well as setting sail from Southampton on the Queen Mary 2.
Jul 14, 2016 | Wales 2015
well, now it’s not wales at all anymore. we started out at the lovely Willows B&B in Ashurst, and enjoyed a delicious breakfast. it was a lovely dining room, and i wish i’d taken a wide shot of it. they do have a couple willows on the property....
Jul 13, 2016 | Wales 2015
Wednesday morning we got up and Carol made us a delicious breakfast, and then we headed for the other side of Southampton. I’d booked us a b&b in Ashhurst, at the edge of the New Forest. It was only a short drive from the b&b to the port, which...
Jul 12, 2016 | Wales 2015
it wasn’t actually unrecorded, but my photos of this day are simply missing. there’s a 20-picture gap between the last photo i took on monday night and the next photo that showed up, which is on wednesday afternoon. where could they have possibly gone?...
Jul 11, 2016 | Wales 2015
i only took a bit of video on our soggy hike because at first the camera wouldn’t focus, then i quickly realized that if i kept shooting, i’d probably break it. at least this gives you a little feel for the soggy adventure that was our hike on...
Jul 10, 2016 | Wales 2015
as i’ve already mentioned quite a bit, it was an exhausting day of hiking, and i wasn’t entirely on board with driving to tintern abbey, but i couldn’t be happier that we did. we were meeting charles at a place called the Abbey Mill Cafe, right next...
Jul 9, 2016 | Wales 2015
Here are just a few additional photos of our wet hike in wales. kevin took these photos, and his camera is soooo much better than the phone on my camera. the reason i didn’t post his photos here instead of mine is because he started his own blog last year and...
Jul 8, 2016 | Wales 2015
i guess this is the way it usually is in wales. raining. we were soooo lucky, all those sunny days hiking along the pembrokeshire path. we got up on monday morning and were going to laze around. there was an extraordinarily long infomercial on tv about…irons....
Jul 7, 2016 | Wales 2015
this video ends kind of abruptly, mostly i think because it was raining and i my video camera wasn’t very keen about the rain.
Jul 7, 2016 | Wales 2015
it was a very busy sunday – we’d woken up in Carmarthen, driven to two hours Wyndcliffe Court Gardens, had a terrific lunch, walked around Chepstow and bought all the souvenirs we wanted, and then had a lovely visit to the Veddw House Garden, including tea...
Jul 5, 2016 | Wales 2015
if you’re reading this before all the other postings for today, you must click here: to read all about Anne Wareham and Charles Hawes’ splendid garden tucked off in a corner of Wales. at this point in the day, we’d been at Veddw for only about 45...
Jul 4, 2016 | Wales 2015
i keep thinking about how fortunate anne and charles are to wake up to this breathtaking garden every morning. but on the other hand i bet sometimes anne wakes up and looks at it and thinks WHAT ONE MILLION THINGS DO I HAVE TO DO TODAY? and sometimes charles is...
Jul 3, 2016 | Wales 2015
i told you there would be a lot of postings about this one day. and there will be a couple of postings of veddw alone, because i couldn’t stop taking pictures. as i mentioned in a previous post, before our trip kevin searched the web for information about...
Jul 1, 2016 | Wales 2015
We’d had a soggy look around the garden at Wyndcliffe Court, and were eager to get back into the house for some tea and sandwiches and dessert. we snagged one of the couches right next to the roaring fire, and we’d have been happy to just move in! plus,...
Jul 1, 2016 | Wales 2015
This is the first of several posts i’ll be making about this sunday in wales, because we did a whole lot of stuff that day. we started the day at our b&b in Carmarthen, had a fine breakfast, and headed out in the rain to the Wyndcliffe Court Sculpture...
Jun 27, 2016 | Wales 2015
it’s funny that almost everything that i say in this video is totally innacurate. it’s a very short video, because it wasn’t such a scenic day. but we’d been away for a long time since we left on our trip – maybe my mind was going! ok...
Jun 27, 2016 | Wales 2015
We’d spent the night at the comfortable Springfield B&B in Rosslare Harbour, Ireland, before getting on the Irish Ferry back to Wales. here we are, breakfasting on healthy porridge at 7:00 a.m. – we had to get up at 6:30 because of getting to the ferry...
Jun 19, 2016 | Wales 2015
here’s a short video of our time at the Powerscourt Gardens and then the Powerscourt Waterfall in Ireland.
Jun 8, 2016 | Wales 2015
more loveliness at the gardens in ireland… the japanese garden was really cool, but impossible to get a photo without somebody in it. everybody was busy tking pictures! inside the powerscourt house, there were a bunch of shops, which we walked through....
Jun 4, 2016 | Wales 2015
We started our day with another lovely breakfast at the Riversdale House B&B in Glendalough. Here’s kevin in the nice sitting area. do people ever sit in the sitting areas at B&Bs? because so far we haven’t ever done that. the view out the...
May 30, 2016 | Wales 2015
I know i’m titling all my videos “wales part this or that,” and in this video and others we’re in ireland, but i don’t think it matters. i’ve been doing nonstop yard work here on memorial day weekend, but i finally stopped and...
