We had an early wake up and got some breakfast at the hotel, then took a “pod” to Heathrow rather than wrangle luggage onto the bus. This is a Jetsons looking structure similar to the Monorail in Disneyland that shoots you straight from the hotel to the airport: By this […]
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Having fully immersed ourselves in the far past, it was fun to embrace the history that happened in our own time, so now we were off to the famous Abbey Road crosswalk immortalized in the photography for the Beatles’ Abbey Road album: It is right next to Abbey Road Studios […]
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Our last day! It was hard to believe our adventures were coming to a close by now. We had so much left we wanted to do and limited time, so we decided to go look at the Tower of London and choose from there. Off we went on another Tube […]
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By this time Eric had driven over 1200 miles with no accidents or police encounters, so we decided to take a hotel close to the airport and finish our sightseeing by train and underground. He found a wonderful hotel right on the property of Heathrow airport called The Thistle. Compared […]
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I worked out with a trainer off since May with six weeks off from September through mid-October while I completed a book for Llewellyn Worldwide. During that time, my trainer and I had great success rehabilitating my knee, which was injured years ago and brought me chronic pain, especially when […]
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O ye’ll tak’ the high road, and I’ll tak’ the low road And I’ll be in Scotland a’fore ye But me and my true love will never meet again On the bonnie, bonnie banks o’ Loch Lomond. There are not as many photos for today as the others because we were in the car […]
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So off we went down The Royal Mile and I swear, it has to be longer than just a mile. My fitbit was having a joyous celebration each and every day on my arm over the nearly 20,000 steps a day and usually, 15-20 flights of stairs climbed. We slept […]
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While we were in Manchester, Eric started getting sick and I mean really sick from exposure to some kind of crazy sick he contracted from the flying Petri dish we’d spent hellish hours in getting to the UK. By the time we got to Bathgate, he was in full on sinus and […]
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As I look through these videos that Eric took, I realize it looks as though I disregard him. Often he says, “Hi Sweetie!” and I do not reply. What you can’t see is that in none of those times did I hear him call to me. You can hear it […]
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After spending a wonderful time at Salisbury Cathedral under Derreck’s careful guidance, we drove a short distance to Stonehenge in Wiltshire. Derreck was concerned about us driving all the way to Edinburgh. I was surprised to find that his reaction was common in the UK. People do not seem to […]
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