In addition to our visit to England in 2024, we traveled to England (and Wales) in 1997.
2024:
Oxford – England
May 2, 2024: We toured the City Centre of Oxford on foot on a Self-Guided Tour of the City Centre (we parked our car in one of the park-and-ride car lots outside the City Centre and rode a bus into the City Centre). We started our self-guided walk at the corner of Broad Street and…
The Cotswolds – England
April 30, 2024: We did a self-guided walking tour of Chipping Campden the evening of April 30th, and toured several other Cotswolds sites the next day, May 1st: St. Michael the Archangel Church, Stanton; Snowshill Manor, Snowshill; Cotswold Motoring Museum, Bourton-on-the-Water; and Chastleton House, Moreton-in-Marsh. Chipping Campden Self-Guided Walk: Our self-guided walk of Chipping Campden…
Tewkesbury Abbey – Tewkesbury, England
April 30, 2024: We spent most of April 30th in the car, as the drive from our accommodation in Penzance to Tewkesbury Abbey was 4 hours and 30 minutes. Tewkesbury Abbey was a good stopping off point for us in reaching the Cotswolds. Tewkesbury Abbey – Consecrated in 1121, Tewkesbury Abbey thrived for many years…
Penwith Peninsula – Cornwall, England
April 29, 2024: This was a wet rainy day in the Penwith Peninsula. The following are the highlights of our tour of the Penwith Peninsula, roughly following the suggested “Penwith Peninsula Joyride” described by Rick Steves (with several sites he suggested ommited from our tour, and a couple of sites added, e.g., , Lanyon Quoit,…
Tintagel and Port Isaac – Cornwall, England
April 28, 2024: This morning we got up and drove from Chagford, Devon, England to Tintagel, England to tour Tintagel Castle and the nearby village of Tintagel. After visiting Tintagel, we visited the home of the PBS Series Doc Martin in Port Isaac. We had already prebooked online our timed-entry tickets at 10:30 am for…
Dartmoor National Park – England
April 26, 2024: Dartmoor National Park is a vast moorland in the county of Devon, in southwest England. Dartmoor ponies roam its craggy landscape, defined by forests, rivers, wetlands, clapper bridges, and tors (rock formations). Trails wind through valleys with Neolithic tombs, Bronze Age stone circles and abandoned medieval farmhouses. What makes Dartmoor National Park…
Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight – England
April 24-25, 2024: Portsmouth is a port city and naval base on England’s south coast, mostly spread across Portsea Island. It’s known for its maritime heritage and the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. The dockyard is home to the interactive National Museum of the Royal Navy, the wooden warship HMS Victory, where Nelson died during the Battle…
Arundel Castle – England
April 24, 2024: Arundel Castle is a restored and remodeled medieval castle in Arundel, West Sussex, England. It was established by Roger de Montgomery in the 11th century. The castle was damaged in the English Civil War and then restored in the 18th and early 19th centuries by Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk. We…
Rye – England
April 23, 2024: Rye is an English town near the coast in East Sussex. In the center, cobbled lanes like Mermaid Street and High Street are lined with medieval, half-timbered houses, boutique shops, galleries, and restaurants/inns/pubs. A busy seaport village for hundreds of years, Rye was frozen in time as silt built up and the…
Sissinghurst Castle Garden – England
April 23, 2024: We made our way from Canterbury next to Sissinghurst Castle Garden, this “best garden in England”, via a 54-minute lovely drive through a scenic countryside, particularly sprinkled with “rapeseed” golden fields. Though not a particularly nice day (dreary sky, cold weather), we were still very pleased with our visit to Sissinghurst Castle…
Canterbury – England
April 22-23, 2024: We arrived in London Heathrow from Denver at around 10 am local time. After renting a car and retriving our luggage, we headed directly to Canterbury. We were “very fortunate” to arrive at our lodging, the Canterbury Cathedral Lodge, and find a remaining parking spot (our lodging had previously given us alternative…
1997:
England and Wales
July 15, 1997: [Note: Most of the below information about our 1997 England/Wales trip was written by Nancy in a diary she kept while we traveled abroad that year]. London – Per Nancy’s diary we arrived at London Heathrow Airport on Tuesday, July 15, 1997 at 6:45 am on a flight from Denver that left…