by Malcolm Kenton | Jun 9, 2018
Using the British railway system — Part 2 The first part of Malcolm Kenton’s outline of using the British railway system explained differences between the US and UK railway systems. He explained BritRail Pass, apps to help navigate the UK system, and the makeup...
by Malcolm Kenton | Jun 2, 2018
Navigating the British train system I recently returned from my first visit to the United Kingdom. While there was a lot I wanted to see and do, I knew I wouldn’t get to all of it within 11 days, and I’ve made an extensive list of things to do on future trips — the...
by Hilary Nangle | Apr 23, 2016
Much ado about commemorating the anniversary of his death, that is. William Shakespeare died 400 years ago April 23, 2016, allegedly exactly 52 years to the day from his birth. His legacy, however, lives on, and this year his English homeland is giving The Bard his...
by Janice Hough | Mar 26, 2016
As an Anglophile and regular visitor to London, I seldom skip a travel article about the city. Recently, writers have been dissing Borough Market and telling tourists to go elsewhere. “Elsewhere” varies, but the options are always smaller, new, or more...
by Victor Block | Apr 18, 2015
Viewing a high country landscape accentuated by a blanket of yellow, the poet William Wordsworth in 1804 described what he saw as “a host of golden daffodils.” To Alfred Lord Tennyson, people walking in the same region “came on the shining levels of the lake.” When I...
by Fyllis Hockman | Mar 28, 2015
What do William Wordsworth, William Yeats and Jemima Puddle-Duck have in common? Well, they all lived in and around the fairy-tale villages of England’s Lake District, but only one of them actually is a fairy tale. And possibly the most famous of the three — at least...
