Category: Travelogue
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75. Day 12 in England: Crystal Palace Park, Christine Arrives, and Love for Virginia Woolf
The days are so long, every day feels like two days! You can do TWO BIG THINGS in one day during the summer in the UK! This day started with taking the Overground to its terminus at Crystal Palace, and wandering over to the park. All in all, I felt the park had seen better…
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74. Day 10 in England: Kensington Gardens and the Victoria & Albert
The African Fashion exhibit was fantastic! I took SO many photos, but these are some of my favorites. Huge apologies for no info about designers and artists. Entering the contemporary part of the exhibit, I was overwhelmed with the variety of fabrics and creative design. Here are just a few photos. I urge you to…
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73. Day Nine in England: Kew Gardens (Royal Botanic Gardens)
I’ve always wanted to go to the Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew Gardens)! So that’s what we are doing this very day. Picnics packed, route planned, here we go! Guess who came to lunch. This magpie! Also, the Eurasian green woodpecker nearby. Kew Gardens is lovely but for the jumbo jets flying quite low overhead every…
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71. Day Seven in England: A Walk Along The Thames, Trafalgar Square, Lunch in a Crypt, and The Tate Modern
We just happened to land in London on the first days of a heat wave that would build over 10 days to well over 100 degrees F. As you can see, the sky is brilliant blue, there were some fluffy clouds, and it wasn’t unbearable. Our London time was pretty unstructured, with ideas of things…
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70. Day Six in England: A Bit of Art, and on to London
And I woke up to this treat! Especially sweet because I know Christine doesn’t normally get up early, but she did to set this up. After some confusion finding my train, and much help from strangers on trains and in underground stations, I finally found my way to my stop in Brockley. Looking very much…
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68a. Day Four in England: Early Morning Walkies, A Very Good Bookstore, Down the Rabbit Hole with Alice
The real treat of the day was a visit to Peter’s Book Shop! Christine was pretty sure that a goodly share of the book in the store came from her house over the years. (I’m sorry I didn’t get a proper photo of Christine’s bookshelves that she built herself, and which are stuffed with books,…
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67. Day Three in England: Just Hanging in Sheringham
While I was planning on adventuring with Christine and Josianne in Sheringham and nearby towns, David had determined to leave us gals to our fun and head off on a solitary urban adventure to Glasgow. So back Northwestward with him for four days, and we would meet again in London! We had a lovely afternoon…
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66. Day Two in England: Breakfast on the Sea, Morris Dances, a Train Ride
A beautiful morning in Sheringham! We got up early for a walk along the boardwalk, and breakfast at Whelk Coppers. And now, a bunch of Morris dancing!! Historical railways are pretty popular in the UK, with its extensive adoption of rail as a typical way people get around on a daily basis. We rode The…
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65. Day One in England: Early Flight to Norwich, Sainsbury Collection, Norfolk Broads, Sheringham
We had a VERY early start to our day, up before 4 AM (yes, it was already firmly light outside) to catch a 6:45 AM flight to Norwich. We had the front of the upper deck to ourselves, and it was jolly lovely to sightsee a little of Aberdeen on the way out of town…
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64: One Day in Aberdeen
Coming into the harbor, Aberdeen, about 7:30 AM! Yes, that is a very grey day you see. Very soon, there would be a steady rain a’fallin’. Fortunately, we were able to drop off our bags to our digs for the night, and set off on foot around town until the cafe opened that I was…
Debkakes in the UK 2022 