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Monthly Archives: May 2010

Weekend Walkies

Oh, England—don’t ever change. This is from the top of The Wrekin, approximately halfway through our 8.5 mile walk. Sunny, dry, warm, and overall delightful. It also helps that when it comes to walks, the British know what’s up—there’s usually at least one pub/teashop/refreshment stand somewhere along the way. Today it was ice cream. We’d [...]

So That Was Weird

So then we went to this one museum in York! It was weird! It’s called the Jorvik Viking Centre, and it’s built on the site of a Viking community that was discovered during excavations for some kind of retail development during 1970s. First what you do is pop into the Starbucks across the street for [...]

Licence to Drive

Don’t worry, Internets: I haven’t suddenly forgotten how to spell “license.” It’s just that in addition to my US driver’s license, I now carry a UK driving licence. Okay, that’s not technically correct, because I do have to wait up to 3 weeks for it to arrive in the post. But in the meantime: interim [...]

It’s In Yorkshire

Since we’ve been spending the last few weeks trying to find someplace to live up Northish, we took the opportunity over the May Day Bank Holiday to visit the even farther up-Northish city of York. I approve. It’s a lovely city on some water, which is always nice, and old walls you can walk on [...]

Aspirations

Greetings, Internets, and SURPRISE: we’re thinking about moving! To another part of England! Sometimes we get into these conversations with people regarding whether it’s better to buy or rent (general consensus of people who are not us: buy! buy! buy!), but here’s what we’ve just realized about ourselves: we can’t buy because moving is our [...]

In Which Stephan Gets A Point

For noticing this bit of the probably quite expensive advertising campaign for The Pacific miniseries: First baby duck rescue, then this. Is there anything he can’t do?* * Rhetorical

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