“Something can be old, but it can be timeless.” Cee Lo Green Since I was a young girl, I’ve loved history and antiques. In fact, when I was just 18 I wrote “fill my house with antiques” on my bucket list. Early on in our marriage, I learned that Tim loved antiques and the thrill…
Category: Local Fun
West End Reviews part 1
For those of you who don’t know, the West End is London’s equivalent to Broadway. Boasting just one less theater than Broadway and starting nearly three hundred years earlier, the West End draws millions of people from all over the world to their historic playhouses each year. In fact, according to today tix, the West…
My Meerkat Meeting
Sam circa 1993 was a Girl Scout and in my troop we each had animal names. I don’t remember why or what the purpose was, but these names followed us for a few years. My best friend was otter and I was meerkat. My mom tried to convince me to be muskrat for the 1976…
Lyveden House…a dream interrupted
Deep in the English countryside stands the shell of an Elizabethan garden lodge a symbol of a dream that was cut short when it’s creator, Sir Thomas Tresham suddenly died in 1605. Tresham’s dream wasn’t just to have a fancy garden lodge, but to stand steadfast in his Catholic faith in a time where Catholics…
The Magic that is the Bruges Christmas Market
“This is like walking in a fairytale.” -Zoe on our ventures in the Bruges Christmas market. And really… she was right. Bruges, I’m sure, is a magical city any time of the year. But at Christmas time, with lights strung from the trees and medieval buildings the whole city is enchanted. (I’ll write more on…
Finding the Joy of Childhood at London’s Winter Wonderland Carnival
If Weisbaden is the quintessential Christmas market, then London’s Winter Wonderland is the exact opposite. While it had some minor nods to the idea of the German Christmas Market, it, by and large, was nothing like the first market we visited. Sprawling throughout Hyde Park, London’s Winter Wonderland faire is beyond massive. I knew it…
Two Tickets… to Two Castles
Recently, we took our very first day trip with RAF Alconbury’s ITT to Bodiam and Scotney Castles. (For those of you who don’t know, ITT is the Information, Tickets and Tours office located on any American military base. They offer great trips for different activities and usually at a great discount to what you’d get…
Two kayaks on the local river
Here at RAF Alconbury (RAFA) we’re super blessed to have a great Outdoor Recreation office that offers several things for us to do. For not much money we can do anything from weekend trips like white water rafting, hiking on Hadrian’s Wall, and exploring North Wales to day/evening excursions like rock climbing, indoor climbing, archery…
Two tickets…to London
This past Sunday, we spent an deceptively warm day in London. Since London is so huge and we didn’t even know where to start, we decided to take it on the way you’d eat an elephant, one bite at a time. I knew I would be overwhelmed by the sheer size of the city, the…
Two Tickets… to Hemswell Antiques
This past Sunday we got the wonderful opportunity to visit the Hemswell Antique Center in rural Lincolnshire. It was a solid 90 minutes of freeway driving from our temporary home on the AF base out here, but it wasn’t a terrible drive. Forewarned that this was the largest antique center in Europe, I knew it…
Fernweh Findings 