Tag: tea
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Playgrounds and Pints: The Swaines in London
There is a reserved space in my heart for big family gatherings, but getting one-on-one time with cousins is like reuniting with unique siblings. We are linked with familiar roots so trading stories is a must, yet at the same time, we there are fun unknowns to discover which makes spending time together a joy.…
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A Cold Day Trip to Colchester
Elephants have been my favourite animal since I was about eight years old so I was taken with Colchester’s love for the keystone species as well! We arrived knowing that Colchester is Britain’s oldest recorded town, but didn’t know that when the Roman Emperor Claudius invaded the settlement in 43AD that he brought elephants…
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Big Barbara Comes to Town
On Friday, I was actually more excited to be in the airport itself than to be in the new city I’d just landed in. Why? I was meeting Barbara in just a half hour at the baggage claim! She was flying across the pond to hang out for almost two weeks, and the first part of our…
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London, Dublin, and Dover with Dad
We’d been emailing, facetiming, and planning for so many months that I almost couldn’t believe it when I was finally on my way to pick up Dad from Heathrow. And when you’re picking someone up from a London airport you feel like you’re reliving the opening scene of Love Actually in the arrivals terminal, and you…
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London from Anne to Z…..
Anne purchased Craig Taylor’s book, Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now- as Told by Those who Love it, Hate it, Live it, Left it, and Long for it, as a gift for me as I start this journey across the pond. In the author’s introduction, he cites another booklet, the London A-Z atlas as an “essential companion to…
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