Apologies for the delay in posting! We made it back home after a long, uneventful travel day, but we've been busy since our return! Running to the laundromat (our washer/dryer crapped out right before we left), grocery store, farmer's market, Sears to buy another washer/dryer unit, and also had to make it to the State Fair, catching up with friends for a BBQ and celebrating my niece's 13th birthday with pizza and ice cream cake, getting back to work, oh, and I had surgery, too! I'm hoping to get loads of photos uploaded, but I have to say, it is arduous work because it takes so long. I'm exhausted and recuperating, so maybe sitting here uploaded pix isn't such a bad way to spend the morning. There is a pointed sense after seeing the broad, wide world and all its endless potential of returning home and having one's expansiveness shoved back into a small, limited box. As much of a hobbit as I am, and I most definitely enjoy the comforts and security of home, I still find it hard to climb back into that box of comforts after the life-shaping that travel brings the soul. We'll soon be planning our next adventures!
"So, what do you suppose is going on here?" was John's hilariously dry comment about this picture, which sent me into utter hysterics.
On the plane to England!
Back on the London Underground!
Our feet in the North Sea!
Cromer!
York Minster
Stamford Bridge!
A stroll around York
The Wall
View from The Wall
York Soapbox Derby races!
In London! Here's the Crescent Hotel where we stayed for our honeymoon 18 years ago!
Our hotel this time around, the Jesmond Dene
The entrance point to where Thor kicked Malekith's ass!
The Chapel
This view was worth the arduous climb!
The River Walk on the way to The Globe!
Before The Scottish Play begins!
A panoramic of the interior!
After the show!
Enjoying the lovely evening air post-theatre :)
Avebury!
Getting up close & personal with the stones
The ancient trees with offerings tied in their branches
More stones with grazing sheep everywhere
I liked this because it reminded me of The Prancing Pony in Lord of the Rings :)
At Paddington Station!
A trip down memory lane, the Norfolk Plaza hotel where we stayed in 1995!
Our last English dinner at The Queen's Head
King's Cross station!
On the way home via Iceland!
