On the 13th of August, 1704, a battle took place near Blindheim (now Blenheim), Austria during the War of the Spanish Succession. I suspect most of our readers don’t really…
Sharp As a Pistol: Dursley 2023, Part 3
As we spent a couple quiet days getting to know our ward, Oberon, we laid out our plans for trips throughout the countryside. The parameters were that we couldn’t leave…
Early Days: Dursley 2023, Part 2
We began our last minute-ish excursion to southern England at 3:30AM. E-frickin-gad. This allowed us to get cleaned up and repack the few things we’d used while being in a…
An Unexpected Journey: Dursley 2023, Part 1
If you’ve been following along with us on a regular basis you’ll remember a very recent post about some changes, small ones, in one we’re putting on the Ramble and…
A Different Kind of Ramble: Hadrian’s Wall 2023, Preface
If you’ve been following along with us at all (and if you haven’t, this is a weird time to start but “hi!”) you have some idea of how we like…
All Aboard!: Orient Express, Day 5, part a
The original subtitle for this series was “Trip Of a Lifetime” ( or “TOAL”) and, just to cut to the chase, that is an exact description of the journey from…
It’s Not NOT True…: Orient Express, Day 4
The title for today comes from a turn of phrase that’s popular in our household, used thusly: It’s not necessarily true that we came all this way just so we…
An American Artist in London: Orient Express, Day 3
I know, I know, for a series of posts titled “Orient Express” there’s a surprising lack of talk concerning trains. Is it at all surprising, from what you’ve read so…
Only Success and New Learning: Orient Express, Day 2
Our second day of this preamble had a very simple agenda. Our only previous visit to the Victoria and Albert Museum was in 2007 (predating this sort of blogging so…
Therefore Another Prologue: Orient Express, Day 1
Believe it or not (and honestly we can barely believe it ourselves at this point) we were back on the road again after a very brief intermission back in Braga….
