We’d booked our tickets to see Windsor Castle way back when we were still in Portugal: with the holiday season in full swing, coupled with reduced capacity as a result […]
United Kingdom
Christmas in Edinburgh
At 5AM on Christmas Eve Max came wandering into our bedroom complaining of an upset stomach. The six hour stretch of vomiting started shortly thereafter, and continued on an off […]
The Isle of Skye
It was a long drive from Glasgow Airport following our morning flight from Belfast. Four hours and 47 minutes of driving time, to be exact. Our longest slog since we […]
Belfast
Belfast often gets a bit of a bad rap as being a city that’s only good for a pub crawl, but the four of us quite enjoyed our day in […]
Yorkshire
Founded by the Romans as Eboracum almost 2000 years ago, York was the capital of the Roman province of Britannia Inferior before being renamed York during the Middle Ages. The […]
The Lake District
I had no idea England was home to mountain ranges, let alone the striking peaks encompassed by northern England’s Lake District National Park. The Lake District is the most visited […]
Maeshafn and Northern Wales
Our route between Llanychaer and Maeshafn took us along the coast and through the Cambrian Mountains at the southern end of Snowdonia National Park. There was some magic scenery along […]
Liverpool
Liverpool was a hop, skip and a jump across the border into England from our base in northern Wales at Rowena’s house in Maeshafn, an easy drive through the nearby […]
Llanychaer and Southern Wales
It was a bit of a slog from Cornwall in southwestern England around the Bristol Channel and across southern Wales from east to west. The drive had us all longing […]
Cornwall
The South West Coast Path is England’s longest marked hiking trail and is also a National Trail. It stretches for 630 miles/1015 kilometers, running from Minehead in Somerset, along the […]
Bristol and Bath
Bristol and Bath are tucked below the southern border of the Cotswolds, the former we visited on a day trip from our base in the English countryside in Welford-on-Avon, and […]
The Cotswolds
Rolling hills covered with a patchwork of hedge-fenced, sheep-filled paddocks stretching between quaint English villages with names like Dorsington and Chipping Campden, the Cotswolds was quintessential English countryside. Our arrival […]