Tag: United Kingdom
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Bay Blokes in London
So May kept our visitors coming! Brian, Meggie and Gary came to Londontown for almost two weeks. Roll on, you bears! It was a particular treat to get some really quality time with Meggie as we’d only spent an evening together prior to their trip. Because Meggie’s cousin, Jen, also lived ten minutes from our…
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Caity’s Pitstop to Rosnaree
We were honored to be a stop on Caity’s journey to Rosnaree, Ireland. Though the trip started with Caity having a pretty hefty airport security experience, we made up for that with an evening at Gokyuzu, a new favorite Turkish restaurant in my book. In true Forrest/Tremblay/Leonard fashion, we talked for an entire evening about…
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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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Day Trip to Windsor Castle
While Corey was in Milan for his quarterly trip with the boys, I figured I could still get out and about to do some touring on my own. Why not travel to the vacation spot where the queen hosts her family Christmas?
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Thankful for…
This Thanksgiving, my mom took an eleven hour flight to visit us in London. Here, turkey isn’t on sale until December, we missed sweet potato and pumpkin pie, we didn’t experience Daisuke’s first encounter with sticky rice, and we knew Corey wouldn’t get a day off. Yet, we couldn’t help but feel incredibly grateful for our time together, and…
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