I should write a book about travel with a five year old. It’d be entertaining because nothing ever works out as planned (kids are full of wrenches). That said, here are some handy tips and tricks that I’ve learned to use in the past: Bring a First Aid Kit… with decongestants. Holy crap, I wish [...]
Archive > March 2010
Manditory Where’s Waldo Shot of Trafalgar Square
Trafalgar square seemed a lot busier than I remember it. In the background is Big Ben; and, in the middle is Nelson’s Column, which is surrounded by four lions. While in London I found Makenna a book called Katie in London, where Katie and her cousin Jack climb onto the back of one of the [...]
Cheese
Abbey gold, bowland with raisin and apple, windsor red, stilton with blueberries, smoked lincolnshire poacher, bradbury’s wholenut, white stilton with apricots, pecorino, charnwood smoked cheddar, and berkswell ewes milk — it reads like a fine wine list, yet it’s all found at a small farmers market booth in Cambridgeshire. I have a weakness for fine [...]
The Bridges of Cambridge
They are aplenty and they range from gorgeous to rustic to fill a necessity. I’m talking about the bridges of Cambridge and below are four of the more famous and storied. Clare College Bridge: This is the oldest of the bridges pictured below and was built in 1640 by Thomas Grumbold. The bridge is decorated [...]
The Ringing of the Bells
Up and up and up we went, up the winding stone stairs. When you climb up spiral stone staircases in places frequented by tourists, they’ve made some effort to ensure that people won’t fall. This was not the case here. These stairs were raw and not well travelled so you had to take care lest [...]
