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England

A collection of 22 posts

All's Well That Ends Well

Our England trip is almost over and as we were recapping our favorite, and not-so-favorite, moments over a nice glass of cider, we realized that our pace picked up dramatically towards the end of the trip. Castles were starting to blur into one big ruined heap and I was having

Castles and Kites

Hi guys! I know SmallPaw said I shouldn't be posting here anymore but it's just so much fun and I'm sure she won't mind the odd message from me. :) We tried to go to this castle one day but it was closed

Yorkshire All Around

Dear reader, It's been too long! But I see BabyPaw has snuck in and claimed a few posts for himself. I guess I can't blame him for taking the opportunity when I so shamefully neglected my work here. That's it though, BabyPaw, you hear

We Meet Again, England

Hi peeps! We're back in England once again only this time Sasha dog has moved here too, how weird is that?! She has a whole big house with a garden too which is very nice. Just look at this yard: There was also an excursion to Greenwich with

Wrap It Up

Dear reader, This is way, way late... I'm not even IN London anymore! But there are still so many nice pictures I want to share with you so I'll post these anyway and then I will add another post soon about my super-secret new location (a

Just a Quickie

Dear reader, There's so much to tell and always so little time. This town is just happening 24/7! (Well, I'm asleep for most of the night so I don't actually know that it's really 24/7 but 12/7 doesn'

London Rules

Dear reader, What a fantastic town! There are big, red, double-decker busses and palaces, ducks and pigeons, carousels and a giant ferris wheel! (Which I have been on the Authorities assure me but I don't remember it so I think I'm entitled to go again, don&

Loving London

Hello dear reader, here I am again, your intrepid reporter. London is a wonderful city but I believe I might have mentioned that before. There's just so much to do! But this time we ventured further afield as well to exotic towns like Oxford, Henley and Reading. Let

London Calling

Actually it was all of south England that called - Cornwall as well - but that title is catchier, don't you think? Oh dear reader, England is a marvelous country. Such wonderful weather! And the food!!! I've never eaten so many blueberries in my life. It&

Time Flies When You're Having Fun

Happy New Year! This is a very delayed post to wrap up some more things about London but we had such a good time that it'd be sad not to tell you about it. Not to use an easy cop-out but it really did feel like time simply

London, a Quick Summary

Who comes to London in November? Really, who?! That's probably what most of you are thinking right now. And it's a valid point since the weather here is generally not well spoken of and November is probably not a pretty month anywhere in the northern hemisphere.

Wrapping up Summer

We're back in the southern parts of Europe but still drawing from our lovely time in England so here are a few more random images from the trip.

Wet and Wild

We spent the past week on a narrow boat cruising the Shropshire Union Canal. Seven adults, two kids and one toddler; surprisingly everyone made it out alive. (There were bets taken in the beginning who'd be chucked over the side of the boat first. Odds were heavily in

Back to civilization

After three weeks of dial-up internet and overall very little contact with the outside world, we're back in the real world (in this case, London) with broadband, shopping and all the other good stuff that comes with it. Ireland was beautiful and relaxing but three weeks was probably

Knitting pretty

I just saw an article on the BBC website about a town in Kent where the Afternoon Club knitted a model of their town. The group has around 40 members and it took them 23 years to finish the project! Then I remembered a little exhibition we saw at Alnwick

Riddles!

Travelling means you eat out a lot and in Britain that means you spend a lot of time in pubs. Thanks to our Good Pub Guide, that usually means very cozy pubs with tasty food, good beer and lots of senior citizens. (This is something we already noticed in Barcelona

A short note on sheep

You might have heard the joke about New Zealand's population: there are 48 million sheep on the islands, 3 million of them believe they're human. I think the UK isn't too far off either. (Which makes sense, Kiwiland being a colony and all...) It&

Keeping the Barbarians Out

The Romans made it all the way to England during the peak of their empire. This is common knowledge to historians and those who have read the first book of the Falco series by Lindsey Davis. The English took well to the commerce and markets but the highland clans were

Go Ape!

You might think that Wainwright would turn in his grave, hearing that we spent a day in the Lake District without walking. But I'd like to imagine that he would have had just as much fun up in the trees as we had. Yesterday we went on a

Helvellyn

We hiked up Helvellyn today - the third highest mountain in England! Which sounds impressive until you realize that it's only 950m high. Caracas lies higher than that. Zuoz lies at almost twice the height. So it might not be the most impressive feat but was chosen over

Otters and such

Today was our first day of proper English weather - clouds, fog and plenty of rain. But having been here for over a week now, it was bound to happen sooner or later. Mostly for our car's sake we were hoping for later, say July, because it acts

A little history

In quite a few of the cathedrals and abbeys we've gone to, we noticed rather modern and funky looking stained-glass windows, like the ones above from Winchester cathedral. We assumed the windows had been blown out during the war from the bombings and when it came to rebuilding,