Category: 2014 Blog
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West Cornwall, Southwest England – Part 2
My drive from Tavistock to Penzance went so well that I decided to keep driving the extra 9 miles to Lands End. Lands End is the most Western part of the England. Without planning it, I had gone to the most Northern part of the UK when I went to John O’Groats in Scotland and…
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Cornwall, Southwest England – Part 1
CORNWALL – North Coast – SOUTHWEST ENGLAND – My stay in Penrith was done on Saturday the 19th of July. I left Penrith for Manchester Airport. There was supposed to be a direct train and it’s only supposed to take 2 hours but the train line had other ideas. The train was late and we…
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Lake District England
I went to the Lake District in Northwest England from the 13th to the 20th of July. Again it was a Sunday when I left Inverness and headed down to Penrith. My train took me via Edinburgh and just past Carlisle in England before you arrive in Penrith. My 6 night stay in Penrith was…
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Scotland
I spent 2 weeks in Scotland. The week of June 29th through July 5th in Edinburgh and the week of the 6th of July through the 13th in Inverness. They say, Edin-boro, not burg like in Pittsburgh. I had an apartment North of town in a suburb called Newhaven. It’s close to the docks but…
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Italy Part 2
So, I left the B&B Stella Polare in Verona at 8am on Sunday, May 25th. The taxi was pricey but I had an 8:45am reserved train ticket to Milan and then a 10:20am train to Varenna. The Milan train was smooth and that’s where I started catching up on the blog. I was one train…
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Italy, Part 1
It’s been weeks since I posted due to internet problems here in Italy. It is June 5th today and tomorrow I go to London to start my couple of months in the UK. I left California for Europe on May 10th and here’s the retelling of part of my month here. It’s Sunday, May 25th,…
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Ready to Relaunch
So, for those that may not know, I had to make an unscheduled trip back to the states to take care of some paperwork because of a “mistake” by the French Consulate in Los Angeles. Once I resigned myself to make the trip back, I decided to make the most of things and visit family,…
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Belgium & Netherlands
I guess you’ve wondered where I’ve been? I spent about 3 weeks in Belgium and the Netherlands in the month of April. Couldn’t have asked for better weather as far as a tourist is concerned. Mostly sunny days with cool temperatures. I left Paris on Saturday, April 5th by high speed train. This high…
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Chateaux
On Wednesday, April 2nd, I took another bus tour out to two chateaux that are both about an hour outside the city of Paris, Vaux-le-Vicomte and Fontainebleau. Fontainebleau is the more famous of the two, but for me, V-le-V was the more majestic, well planned and retained its grandeur. Fontainebleau seems to have been chopped…
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