Given that Ben and Lisa were working on Monday, we decided to pop on down to London. We grabbed a fast train, and 40 minutes later we were at King’s Cross, where we hopped on a “hoho” bus (hop-on, hop-off). This was both good and bad. The good was that they furnished disposable plastic ponchos […]
One of the great joys of travel is running into a “relative separated at birth.” We aren’t sure if Lisa is Ellen’s daughter or sister from a previous life, but ever since running into her looking for the same restaurant in Evora, Portugal, there has been a connection. This connection was strengthened when she and […]
We started our Sunday heading out to one of Lisa and Ben’s favorite pubs for a very British Sunday lunch. I had the roast beef with mash, vegetables, and Yorkshire pudding. We then headed off to tour Audley End House, a large early 17th-century country house outside Saffron Walden, Essex, England. It was once a […]
Lisa and Ben suggested we head out to Ely to check out the cathedral. Now we’ve seen quite a few churches this trip, and weren’t sure that this would be entirely necessary, however, etiquette dictated our obeisance. Are we ever glad we did. This bad boy goes up against Strasbourg for greatness. Particularly cool, is […]
What is one of the first things to be done in Cambridge, England? Why, punting on the River Cam of course. We decided to hop over the channel and visit Lisa, our travel buddy from Portugal, and Ben, her partner, for a bit. Friday afternoon we headed down to visit central Cambridge, lunch, and punt […]
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