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Our covidArt project. A neighbor in Ithaca proposed the idea that neighbors could create a spontaneous local art gallery on their porches during the period of confinement (a la the musical Porchfest in September). It inspired Samuel and I to create our own little way of sharing a smile with strangers in the front ofContinue reading “Don’t just do something, sit there.”

Oh, what a difference ten days can make. Last weekend we were having a fun visit with our old friend Yann, his wife Clare and their two children, Victore (age 6) and Honore (age 2 1/2). And now they are trying to figure out life in corona lock-down. A huge thank you to them forContinue reading “Continental Adventures Pt. III: Nantes”

Mandatory coronavirus notice – we feel a bit odd posting all of these travel blogs as the world descends into virus mayhem. We also feel fortunate that by chance we scheduled this trip in the weeks before two of the countries we visited basically closed up. Looking at maps of cases, everywhere we were happenContinue reading “Barcelona”

London is not just vast horizontally but vast across time. History has left it sumptuously jumbled. -Bill Bryson from The Road to Little Dribbling Before and during our trip we have been reading Bill Bryson’s books about England aloud as a family. Notes from a Small Island and now The Road to Little Dribbling areContinue reading “Hidden treasures”

Friday, January 31st. The Thames Tidal Barrier. Since the time of London’s founding by the Romans, flooding has been a key element in the environmental history of the city. There is an account of London flooding as early as 1099 in the Anglo Saxon Chronicle, and in 1236 people were paddling boats through Westminster. InContinue reading “Tides and pools”

Monday, 27 January 2020 The British Museum and the Hidden London Exhibit at the Transportation Museum. Today we went to the British Museum, or as it has become known in our house, the Museum of Colonial Plunder. It has some of the world’s premier collections of ancient Greek, Assyrian, Egyptian, and Pacific Islander artifacts. SoContinue reading ““We’re gonna rock down to Electric Avenue””

Saturday, 18 January 2020. We open a bank account. While this may not sound like something to record in a travel blog, sometimes the most mundane tasks turn out to be most interesting inter-cultural comparisons. We had not planned to open a bank account while here, but after investigating possibilities for exercising, we decided toContinue reading “Figuring Out Our New Home and First Adventures”

Arrival Photo Gallery OUR NEW HOME (15 South Gardens, Colliers Wood)

Share the adventure with us OUR NEW HOME (15 South Gardens, Colliers Wood) Some adventures 10th January 2020 – Tour de EPL stadia. Isaiah created a tour of the city’s four English Premier League Football stadiums. Given that we hadn’t really yet grasped how big the city was, and how long it would take toContinue reading

“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.” — Samuel Johnson.

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right. You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click theContinue reading “Introduce Yourself (Example Post)”