Day 1- 2 Travel and Arrival in London
Welcome to our last trip in 2013! We have a fabulous itinerary to look forward to for this trip. And of course so much of it has to include a […]
Welcome to our last trip in 2013! We have a fabulous itinerary to look forward to for this trip. And of course so much of it has to include a […]
Today we had a later start (10:00 am) but a longer bus ride. The weather committee did an incredible job and for the first time we saw sunshine today, which […]
With sadness, we left Dartmouth around 9:00 in the pouring rain and drove for about two hours to the town of Glastonbury. The 12th century Glastonbury Abbey was a rich […]
This morning dawned clear and beautiful as we all met in the decorated tea room in the basement of our hotel for a full English breakfast. The hotel, built by […]
Today was really “Abbey” day. We got up early and drove to Wales to see the famed Tintern Abbey founded in 1131. It is on the Welsh bank of the […]
Our Hotel for two days is “Billesley Manor Hotel, about three miles outside of Stratford-upon-Avon. The first mention of the manor was in The Doomsday Book, the official royal survey […]
Today we left our Elizabethan Hotel near Stratford, and drove a short way into the Cotswolds. This area is one of England’s favorite destinations, famous for hundreds of honey-colored limestone […]
(This paragraph comes from Wikipedia) Oxford University: “The University of Oxford is located in the English city of Oxford, and is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. It is regarded […]
Leaving London at 8:45 this morning we had a lovely drive (after getting out of the traffic in London) through gorgeous countryside south through the county of Kent. On both […]
Saturday dawned bright and early with a short drive west from our Hotel, to the Tower of London, along the River Thames. This Royal Palace and Fortress was founded towards […]