Category: UK

We needed a break from the unfamiliar. The UK really felt like a second home to us. We really enjoyed every nook and cranny and hope to return many times. We spent our last...

Our last small trip before returning to London was to the region of Cornwall. Cornwall was surprisingly autonomous for much of Britain’s history. Cornwall even had its own language which didn’t go extinct until...

Bath has a long history like most of the UK. It is doubly famous for the Roman baths built here and because Jane Austen lived there and formed a lot of her story ideas...

We made our way back to England from Wales, driving through the pretty little villages in the Cotswolds region. This is storybook England with honey colored stone cottages neatly lined up on green lanes....

We’ve seen the major sites of Wales (big castles like Caernarfon castle and the Snowdon Cog Railway) but we always had some issue (car trouble, illness) that made it feel rushed. We finally enjoyed...

We have been going through a lull in our travels so haven’t posted much lately. We will try to get back on schedule. I developed a stuffy ear which made it really hard to...

We were really looking forward to the Isle of Skye since we really liked our past day trips to the island. We spent a week here but between the weather (rubbish as they say...

We are in our favorite landscapes in the world, the highlands of Scotland. For some reason we love the rounded mountains, rainy wind swept slopes, and countless sheep. We seem to be happiest driving...

Our next stop was in York which is considered the North even though it’s only about 200 miles from London. Although the center of York is touristy, the rest of it is quiet and...