Tag: United Kingdom
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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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Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes…
Seasons of Lah…Lah…Lon-don! It’s my one year London-versary, y’all. Time has been flying. Here’s an month by month update from Essex Road since I’ve been in the UK.
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Brighton Day Trip
I woke up Saturday morning feeling like I wanted to get out of the house. London is still feeling great, but we haven’t been somewhere new since the school year has started. A day trip to Brighton seemed like an easy remedy.
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Loving the Lake District
When you rent a car, it’s a common thing to adjust your mirrors and to set up whatever GPS device you’ll use for your road trip. You adjust the driver’s seat to reach the brake and gas pedals, and you reach to the left to put on your seatbelt…or wait, to the right, because you’re in a…
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‘About two desserts worth…’ G+A Take On London
We’d discussed vacationing with the Goldbergs for quite some time so we had to celebrate their arrival in London with a champagne afternoon tea at the Dalloway, a lovely hotel in Bloomsbury with outdoor garden seating. As we ordered our first round of bubbly, Goldberg spoke up and said “Well, this is probably the right time…
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