The final leg of our 2023 England trip, following London, Oxford and Cornwall. Sunday, May 21 We had one last breakfast at the Padstow Harbour Hotel. I tried eggs florentine, served like a benedict on an English muffin. It was again more than I needed but quite tasty. We bid farewell to Padstow and drove …
The third leg of our 2023 England trip, following London and Oxford. Wednesday, May 17 The Greenbank Hotel breakfast was a la carte, not buffet, so Barb got a full English Breakfast but couldn’t get crispy bacon. She was slightly sad. I had mackerel baked with eggs and cheese, basically a little quiche that was …
The second leg of our 2023 England trip, following London. Sunday, May 14 I bought train tickets from London’s Paddington Station to Oxford several months in advance of our trip. A few weeks before our travels, I got a notice of rail strikes in England near our travel dates and a notice that the direct …
This was the vacation we originally planned for May, 2020. We wanted to visit our friend Ada in London one last time before she transferred back to DC. We bought our British Airways tickets and I was researching itineraries in Cornwall when the Covid pandemic squashed all plans. British Airways gave us vouchers for the …
Our summer 2007 journey to Italy, with a one-day stopover in London. One month after Allie returned from her People To People trip to Australia, we turned around for a family vacation in Europe. It was time to introduce Allie to Italy. I thought about different itineraries but settled on very basic highlights of Venice, …
This post is based on an album I put together in 1976 or so called “Bill – The Story So Far,” supplemented with photos from an album that my Mom put together for me about a year later and some photos we found in Mom’s stuff after she died. This post covers our time in …
Trip to London for 2018 New Year’s with Barb and Allie, staying with Ada. Sunday, Dec. 31 The plan for this New Year’s Eve Day is to mostly take it easy, heading down to Fortnum & Mason for some (now) traditional New Year’s shopping and tea, then back to Ada’s to prepare a nice dinner. …
Trip to London for 2018 New Year’s with Barb and Allie, staying with Ada. Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2017 For the third year in a row, we ventured to London for a New Year’s break with Ada. Allie arrived home from Boston on Friday evening, Dec. 22, and we had a nice quiet Christmas together. On …
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