Bonfire Night!

Things you don’t have the opportunity to appreciate when you just visit a country for vacation… Watching the fireworks from our apartment window for Bonfire Night. Bonfire Night started when a Catholic protestor in the 1600s tried to assassinate King James 1, a Protestant King, by blowing up the Parliament building. He was unsuccessful, but […]

Rainy Day

We officially had our first rainy day today in the UK — hard to believe we are on Day 12 of our trip and haven’t had rain. We were beginning to think that the entire UK lies about how much “rain” they get. For goodness sake, we were sunburned just days ago!  Anyways, we came […]

Conquering Mountains

I’ve not yet talked about our new friend we’ve made here at our BnB… Her name is Sylvia and she’s seemed to have taken a liking to us. Every time we see her we end up sitting and chatting. She’s from somewhere in England and holidays at this BnB for at least a week every […]