Christmas Reads to Holiday Travel to the U.K. and Italy
December means Christmas and it also means Christmas reads, and these books will inspire you to travel to the U.K. and Italy, perfect places to go for the holidays!
England in Photos: An Early Spring
Two glorious early spring weeks touring England, mostly the southwest, starting in Reigate, with day trips into London, hiking on the North Downs Way, onto Bath, Cornwall, Dartmoor, Exeter, Devonshire, Dartmouth and finally...
London is Calling Us!
Porec to Trieste Airport, Italy: 110 kilometres The last three days have been mostly about working on our tans and for those “naturists” who care, working on losing our tan lines. We have settled into a fairly standard routine,...
Oxford, Regent and Carnaby Streets: Some Trendy Shopping
The Oxford Street shops beckon us early this morning for a bit of shopping and sightseeing. We jump on our bus to Marble Arch, then walk back to Oxford Circus and down Regent Street. We stop at Liberty, the famous old department...
Cost-Friendly, Time-Efficient Guides to Airport Parking in London
Airport parking is one of those traveling glitches that you don’t realize its magnitude until you’ve experienced it yourself. When it comes to this problem, most major airports all over the world welcome the services of various...
An Interview with Llangoed Hall’s Chef Nick Brodie
Nick Brodie is a very busy man. Between heading up the kitchen at Llangoed Hall in Wales, picking up two recent awards including Condé Nast’s ‘Best Green Practices’ for 2016 and claiming the number 29 spot...
Typical Tourists: A Walkabout in London
Friday, August 20th, 2004: London, England The sun is shining – clouds briefly flit across it, but the umbrellas we carry as we walk southwest from Islington are not used today. Greg says that he has never been to Buckingham...
London: The Flower and Plant Stalls of Columbia Road
Today is our last full day in London. We sleep in, then linger over the Sunday Times and coffee. Much to our surprise, we find an article by Barbara Amiel, our own Lady Black. We ask Neil if the Blacks have been “rehabilitated”...
Ahhhhhh, The Wonders of Travel.
Monday, August 23rd, 2004: Noventa di Piave, Italy N 45 E 012 Trieste Airport to Noventa di Piave: 87 kilometres Venezia beckons us and we arrive back in Trieste with not a whole lot of help from Ryanair other than the actual...