After a wonderful breakfast at a spot called Qudos, we walked across town to Salisbury Cathedral. Our timing was good, as there was a...

29 May It's our last full day in Felixstowe so time to start gathering our things together, do some laundry and tidying up and start...

There are so many wonderful things to see in this part of the country that it's hard to pick which ones to prioritize. High on my list...

26 May I awoke to heavy rain and a forecast of 100% chance of rain all day. By about 10:00 the sun was shining and there wasn't a cloud...

24 May I've mentioned before that we pack pretty light - 2 carry-ons and a small tote for 9 weeks and 1 1/2 seasons. After 6 days in...

22 May Much as I would love to have returned to Chelsea, we were off to a new cat sit in Felixstowe in Suffolk. I finished packing a bit...

I've been to the Seattle Flower and Garden Show. I've been to the Philadelphia Garden show which was, incidentally, fabulous and very...

Last year when we went to Kenya I had the misfortune of getting sick - with bronchitis, as it turns out. It lasted through all 16 days...

Our time with Blanchie was at an end and it was time to go back to London. We returned the rental car & got a taxi to the train station....

May 14 and 15 were very rainy. We thought about going to the Imperial War Museum in Cambridge, but further research revealed that it...

Being so close to Cambridge it somehow didn't seem right that we had spent so little time in the city. Besides, there was still one sight...

One of the iconic symbols of spring in the UK is the beautiful swaths of bluebells in the woodlands. (photo from National Trust website)...

Since we have wheels, we're taking advantage of them by visiting another National Trust property, Wimpole Estate, which is about 5 miles...

It's supposed to be wonderful weather till Sunday, so we struck out to pick up a rental car. We took the bus from Barrington and James...

It was a lovely sunny day and the forecasters promised temperatures in the high 60s. A bit like Seattle, you have to be thrilled with a...

Always a bit sad to leave London, but we're on our way to Barrington, Cambridgeshire to sit for a chicken! Bruce's cousin hasn't had a...

I didn’t realize when I planned this trip that our first weekend fell on a bank holiday. The result is that anything vaguely touristy is...

I don’t remember where, but I read somewhere about the dragons that guard the city of London. It turns out that they are Dragon Boundary...

It’s predictable, I suppose, that my first day back in London would be spent at an old favorite, the V&A museum. Today I spent some time...

I plan most of our travels for the shoulder seasons, usually September – October, but after last year’s bucket list trip to Kenya and...