Tag: Gardens GB22

Eden Project 9 May

Tim Smit’s Eden Project, built in a deep china clay pit, is dominated by huge domed enclosures emulating two natural biomes: A rainforest environment (it has the largest indoor rainforest in the world) and the second, a Mediterranean environment. Outside are botanical gardens with native and near native British plants. Exploring the gardens within and… Continue reading Eden Project 9 May

On to Hereford, 4 May

Our route to Hereford (NB: the word has three syllables, not two like the town in Texas) had its charms, despite being on major highways. Hereford is on the river Wye, and getting there we weaved through Wales, stopping for a break and language lessons from a Sainsbury’s: From Shropshire into Herefordshire, the air was… Continue reading On to Hereford, 4 May

Day tour of Mull and Iona

Ferries run several times daily back and forth from the islands and Oban. Buses of tourists cross Mull, traveling from one port to the next. Both conveyances also carry older schoolchildren to Oban and back once a week, because of a lack of secondary schools on Mull and Iona. Indeed, everything and everyone on the… Continue reading Day tour of Mull and Iona

Kirknewton, April 2022

Having adjusted to the time, we boarded a midday train from King’s Cross Station. We headed north (Peterborough, York, Darlington, Newcastle, Berwick-upon-Tweed) to visit family in a beautiful valley in Northumberland, near the Scottish border. Our niece and her husband live in a family compound with her parents, Richard’s brother Mike and sister-in-law Enid. It… Continue reading Kirknewton, April 2022

London 20 April

Our first full day in London, we explored the neighborhood around St Pancras and King’s Cross stations. We stayed at a nearby hotel, The Megaro, because we would be taking the train north in a few days. St Pancras Old Church Some shrine has been here for centuries, perhaps as early as the 4th c,… Continue reading London 20 April