It was on my life-list, and Julianne’s bucket-list. Whatever you call it, we wanted to go there. We opted for a very special privilege – going into the circle among the stones after the park closed at 7 pm. We got the last places on the only tour still available during our time in […]

I’ve had nagging thoughts that we are not keeping in touch well enough, not sending enough postcards, not making enough FB posts, not writing personal emails very often. Further, I have hardly made any drawings for the past week. What happened? This has been a week of traveler’s angst. We have been chained to our […]

At museum of London. Serious about archaeology and history here. Beautiful museum—sleek, well displayed. Prehistory and Romans hold me—maybe I will get up the energy for middle ages. Not that interested in Sherlock Holmes despite my love of mystery stories. A great trove of photos has recently been bequeathed from Christina Bloom who took photos […]

Days have run along. We realized we hadn’t kept up our calendar, and could we even remember what we did? Hm. Friday we bused over to Greenwich to observe Greenwich Mean Time, and also to look at the Cutty Sark, now out of water at a tourist spot nearby. Greenwich Royal Observatory is all spacious […]

I have wondered why the Romans wanted to control Britain at all and why was London their headquarters. For the past 10 years or so, I have wandered around areas that were on the edge of the Roman Empire. It was always fairly clear why the empire would go to the trouble of conquering and […]