We’ve been in Edinburgh for the last month. We came here for the month long Fringe Festival which has comedians and other acts perform all over the city. We spent the first two weeks taking it easy and seeing a couple of shows each night or some sightseeing. I even joined the local pool and […]
Archives for August 2016
Stone Age, to Romans, to the Middle Ages and Victorian Times
For this leg of our trip we visited south-western England and saw things from different eras with the oldest being Stonehenge. The monument is about 4000 years old and, not surprisingly, VERY popular. Back in Victorian times (about 150 years ago) they used to think that Stonehenge was one of the few buildings that survived […]
Old Blighty: Dover to London
After Paris we went to the UK. We thought we’d do it the traditional way; taking a ferry from Calais over to Dover and admiring the famous White Cliffs of Dover as we came in. Unfortunately we didn’t think about what time of day would be a good time to do this so we made […]
