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For the last few days we’ve felt like Millie has finally gotten the hang of this travel thing and like it would be smooth sailing from here on out. Today we were humbled. She woke up at 6am because of the early sunrise and lack of blackout shades. She whined until we got out of…

Not much to report today but here’s the post for posterity. We drove the 3+ hours back to London from where we were near Sheffield. On the way we stopped at a big shopping center with Texas vibes. Nick needed some new pants, but instead of those we walked away with kind of ugly shoes…

We had a lazy morning and moseyed our way over to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. YSP is over 500 acres of beautiful land nestled in between farmland, and covered in sculptures. Nick said he wanted to go and as usual I was along for the ride, but I didn’t expect it to be a world…

Today we visited the city of York, which is what New York City is based on. The theme of the day was Vikings. Our first stop was the DIG museum, which started with a lesson on archaeology as a concept and all the things archaeologists have found in Jorvik, the Viking settlement that York sits…

We are 20 days into perfectly temperate, sometimes even hot English sunshine. I’ve put on SPF 30 every day and still gotten a sunburn. It’s starting to feel like that scene in Dumb & Dumber where they take a wrong turn and say “I thought the Rockies would be rockier than this, that John Denver’s…

Welcome to my first two-days-in one post. This is because we had a very late night last night at the Shepherd family party. The party didn’t start until 2 so we spent the morning doing a tour of Stokesay Castle. It was yet another beautiful day and they had an audio tour, so everyone was…

This morning we left Wales to head to see family in Ludlow. We took a slightly longer route so we could pass through Hay-on-Wye. The drive went smoothly except for having to wait for hoards of sheep to clear the road. I’m starting to realize why Shepherd is such a common name around these parts.…

Like the classic saying says… Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me 7 days in a row, it’s a shame we’re so dumb. This morning we did it again; we blindly allowed Google to take us on tiny windy roads to our destination. What Google thought would take…

This morning we played and then headed out for the day’s planned activity, visiting Dan-ye-Ogof, also known as the “National Showcaves”. These are only about 20 miles from where we’re staying, but we’ve learned to go by drive time rather than distance. In reality it was about an hour of windy and hilly roads, with…

We cleaned up our cottage and set out for Wales. After just 30 minutes of driving we bid adieu to everything we thought we knew about the Roman alphabet and entered the land of words that appear as if they were invented by a cat walking across a keyboard. We had originally planned to visit…