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Ode to our king bed

(With apologies to the Febreeze commercial) I love you, king-sized bed. You're breadth gives me the space I need to spread out. But sometimes, I don't have you … We have spent the past four nights in a bed that could charitably be considered less than double, more than twin. Yet, we are used to aforementioned king-sized bed, and it's been rough. Some of you may recall the history of our king bed. We bought it very shortly before Pete got ill and spent many months in Penn Stat

Bad beans – adventures in high end high teas around London

One of the best parts about traveling is the opportunity to try things you've never done before – different foods, drinks, shopping experiences, modes of transportation, experiences. One of my favorite ways to do this is with food. While Pete is often ambivalent about different foods and tastes, I am all for doing new things, trying new things (within reason) and having a good old go at different stuff. When I knew several days in London were on the itinerary, I researched th

Bad beans – adventures in high end high teas around London

Sounds, sounds everywhere sounds (With yet another apology to the Five Man Electrical Band…)

So many aspects of travel are interesting that it’s hard to pick out what may be the best. For me, one of the most intriguing is the difference in sounds we have encountered. In rural Shippensburg, the sounds are vastly different that they are in central London, or along a canal in Venice or on a fjord in Norway. Some you world expect, in part, due to the requirements of the location. London traffic sounds much different than what is heard along Shippensburg’s King Street. Bu

NOW I finally feel like I'm in London

So yesterday, as anyone who follows our blogs can attest, was kind of an odd day. A day in which we were here in body, but exhausted in mind and spirit from the grueling overnight flight and our individual physical issues. So basically, everything we did in London was in the same area (roughly) as our hotel. The closest we got to iconic London yesterday was shopping a bit on Oxford Street. Then this morning we got up and visited three of the many famous London markets – Petti

NOW I finally feel like I'm in London

Departing from the text

Many years ago, when our kids were little, they had an aunt (Ok, they still have that aunt, but they are no longer little) who loved to send them Berkeley Breathed Bloom County children's books. I will never forget a repetitive phrase used in one of them: “depart from the text.” In the book – I believe it's Goodnight Opus – Grandma falls asleep reading to little Opus, who then imagines a very different story than the one he was previously hearing – he “departs from the text.”

London: Like and unlike before

Already, as we walked through Heathrow Airport, I realized this trip was going to be different. This is possibly our seventh (or so) trip to London. We have long ago done the regular touristy things – watching the changing of the guard, visiting the Tower of London, riding the London Eye … and on and on. This time we had in mind some very different things. We intended to pick up some things we had never done – even one or two that others do straight away, like going to the fa

London: Like and unlike before

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