Did someone tell you British food was bad?
So, before we came to London, we’d heard plenty of tales of the bland and boring British food. I have no idea what people who talk like this have been smoking. Maybe I don’t know what what THEY...
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Rocks Rock! More on Stonehenge et al.
I have been meaning to follow up on the Stonehenge/Avebury trip, beyond the teaser photos that we posted. As archaeology and ancient culture junkies, Susan and I have really been wanting to see...
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Ten centuries of might and fear
One of the many “back blogs” that we’ve been queuing up to post… Again, a bit of history, but mostly pix… We visited the Tower of London twice. (Thus actually paying for the Historic Royal Palaces...
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The Continent Part I: Taking the Waters, Roman Style
In our ongoing efforts to stay terribly behind on the travel blog, I started writing this on the train to Scotland and finished it in the Youth Hostel in Kirkwall on Orkney, about a trip that happened…...
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The Continent Part II: Music, Music, Music!
Following our time in Wiesbaden, we headed on to DFDF for some relaxing music. Here’s part 2 of our Continental Whirlwind Tour: The next day, we were off to Bad Salzdetfurth via Hannover. We made it...
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The Continent Part III: City of Water
With our approximately one-and-a-half free days before our return flight from Hannover, we decided to dive-bomb tourist Amsterdam. We were “close” (in the sense that, say, Detroit is “close” to...
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Leaving the Shire, Mr. Frodo
As I write this, we’re sitting in the airplane at Heathrow, about to take off for the US. For home and the end of a wild, wonderful, eye-opening, strange, and sometimes stressful year. They call the...
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A very, very big hole in the ground
When I was maybe four years old, my parents took me to Mammoth Caves. Reputedly, I remarked, “Big hole in the ground!” Indeed. Almost definitively so, one would say… But Susan had never seen this...
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Exploring Caledonia: Part I
A Week in Caledonia I began writing this shortly before we left Britain, but then life caught up, and in the chaos of returning to the US, it got set aside. As I write these words now, it has been...
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Holiday Letter 2011
Dear friends, family, and loved ones, First, we must apologize for not getting out a holiday letter last year. Rest assured: if you did not get a letter from us, it is not because we dropped you from...
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