Our Trip to England: One Year Later

by Julie Walker It was a year ago this week that Noel and I went on our trip of a lifetime. (You can read our travel log here.) What an amazing experience it was. In so many ways it was exactly what we needed at just the right time. Neither one of us had ever …

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Life and Death

Looking back over my nine day holiday in England a number of common themes came up in all the places we stayed. A major interest of the Renaissance was a renewed faith in the intellect. With the advent of the Modern era, humanity was going to solve all the problems of the past. The violence …

Faces of London

While on holidays we met a bunch of new faces, and got to see some faces we already knew. While we are sorting pictures I thought I would put a few of them together. If we were using film cameras most of these pictures would never have been taken but since a digital takes each …

Farewell to London

We squeezed in one more sight before we headed to the airport. We had breakfast in Leaden Market which doesn't sound like a big deal until you see the pictures. It's the site of where they filmed Diagon Alley. We also saw the restaurant where they filmed the entrance into Hogs Head. It's currently an …

A Drama-tic Final Day

On Wednesday we got up very early and caught a train from Edinburgh to London and had one last look at the city. First a quick stop at Kings Cross to see Platform 9 ¾ of Harry Potter fame. No big deal, just on a brick wall between platforms 9 and 10 there it was. …

Back to Edinburgh

Tuesday we got an early start and drove down A82 into Fort William. A little more about the driving. Picture Quarry Rd (winding two lane road with a cliff on one side). That's what the A82 is like. The speed limit is 60 mph! I can barely maintain that kind of speed and there are …

Culloden Battlefield

On Monday we took our new found confidence in driving on the wrong side of the road and put it to good use. We headed out of Inverness in search of Culloden Battlefield: the site of the tragic defeat of the Jacobite supporters of Bonnie Prince Charlie. He was the heir to the Stuart dynasty …

Terror in The Highlands

Well our luck ran out on Sunday in Edinburgh. The first rain we have seen all week arrived at dawn and the Guest House we stayed at was, 'dodgy,' yeah, I think that's what the locals would call it. It was O.K. but compared to the Park Plaza in London it was mediocre. We ate …

Graduation Day

We slept in a bit and had breakfast with Jen and the Kiddos. Mark had an appointment today so we missed him. We walked ten minutes to a bus stop and rode a bus into Cambridge proper. It was beautiful. It was Convocation Day at Kings College so the place was crowded with graduates receiving …

Friday in Cambridge

The single disappointment of the trip thus far is that Internet service is spotty at best. These pictures had to be added after this entry was posted. On Friday we went to the Tate Gallery in the morning and looked at some remarkable paintings by British artists from the past four hundred years. Our tour …