Wacky, Whimsical, Wonderful Wednesday (June 7th)
Hello, everybody! May I wish you all the happiest of Wednesdays. I'm sorry that recent Wednesdays have gone uncelebrated. The last two weeks have…
Wacky, Whimsical, Wonderful Wednesday, British Edition!
Hello everybody, and welcome to Wacky, Whimsical, Wonderful Wednesday, British edition. Grab a cup of tea (forgive me, a cuppa) and a pack of…
Wacky, Whimsical, Wonderful Wednesday for May 10th
Congratulations, one and all, we've made it to Wednesday! I won't waste time on midweek rhapsodizing, you all know why we celebrate Wednesday. So…
Magical views, eerie otherworldliness, and unexpected screeching: Visiting Mont-Saint-Michel by night
Gothic arches, stone walls, narrow passages, cavernous rooms, flickering lights...and periodic screeching followed by glimpses of enormous eagle eyes and sharp talons?
Building (literally) the Tudor dynasty: Lady Margaret Beaufort, Henry VII, and the Westminster Abbey Lady Chapel (Part I of III)
(I apparently had a great deal to say on this topic, so I decided to break up the post into smaller parts. Keep an…
Of Propaganda and Painted Ceilings: My Visit to the Old Royal Naval College
I really didn’t intend to spend the day in Greenwich.