Category: Trip 1
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The Road from Bath towards Dorset
One event to report…yes one of the ’bumps’ on the passenger side of the car (remember, Gary’s biggest challenge with UK driving is not really having good perception of that left side boundary) resulted in us rapidly losing tire pressure on the front passenger tire. Fortunately, Mercedes’ road side service expedited someone to meet us…
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The Mysteries of Stonehenge
The biggest thing we learned during our visit to Stonehenge is that there’s a lot more to this site than the stone circle you’ve seen in a National Geographic photo. It’s an amazingly large and rich archaeological site that’s estimated to be 5,000 years old and is designated a World Heritage site. We decided to…
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Beautiful Bath
The setting for so many period movies that I love (The Dutchess, The Remains of the Day, Persuasion, Vanity Fair, and of course most recently…Bridgerton!), Bath was high on my list for a visit, and Easter weekend with gorgeous weather made it special. In addition to visiting the famous baths, we took a long e-bike…
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New wheels for ground transportation
This trip will truly involve planes, trains and automobiles. In planning the England portion of our trip, our on-the-ground travel agent here determined that renting a car would be the best way to get around England. Knowing we’d spend the next month with the vehicle, you might imagine the smiles on our faces when we…
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Settling in to our new reality…
After an overnight flight from SFO (hail business class and lie flat seats…where have you been my whole life…I guess a perk of old age?), we arrived in beautiful Windsor to settle in and unwind. Not disappointed by our British travel planner, Jan Redler, we were greeted at passport check in, accompanied through baggage and…
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Counting down the minutes to our first adventure!
After an arduous and sometimes painful week of packing up our home of the past 18 years and moving our things to storage, we are finally focusing our attention on packing for our first trip! 79 days traversing through the British Isles is on the agenda, and we can’t wait to leave the cares of…
Gary and Jillian's New Adventures 