We’ve been home for about a week now and regular life has rushed back in. At times while we were away we felt that four months was a bit long, but looking back now and as we’d predicted it seems that the time was a...
Parting shot and smile-filled farewell to the UK as well as this family adventure. For the past 4 months we've been nearly this close and despite many a road weary morning with homesick tears, we've experienced a lifetime of memories. We have another final post in the...
Our final big excursion the day before flying home was touring the Harry Potter Studios just north of London. This is the huge studio complex that was used to film all eight of the movies (over 10 years). Everything within the now-museum building was original...
Whether it was due to poor planning or simply that we spent too much time at other amazing places along the way, we sadly ended up having only a half-day in London. We had to narrow our “wish-list” down significantly and settled on going to...
About a year ago we gathered a list of Roald Dahl's kids books and slowly worked our way through reading them all. As dedicated fans of his writing we felt compelled to find something Dahl-like to visit here in his native UK. We discovered the...
While I was studying in England twenty years ago in the northeast city of Alnwick, England which we visited and Frankie wrote about in her blog post, Michelle came over to visit and we traveled around the country for about a week. During that time...