To the astonishment of absolutely no one, I planned for one of my extra tourism days to coincide at the spot where I first conceived this goofy plan: Housesteads and…

No cute preamble this time, ladies and germs. I got up from an adequate night at The George Hotel (which, honestly, the hotel was lovely, on a river with a…

On the last night of this trip, we four friends sat at dinner and chatted amiably about the week that was. Lisa and I broke out one of our go-to…