This ended up being the most religious of my days so far. I hit up two major religious sites. First are the Bishop’s Palace and Wells Cathedral. Second is the ruin of Glastonbury Abbey. The city of Wells is named for the springs within the boundaries of the Bishop’s Palace. These springs have provided ample…

This morning I headed out from Lynton and began making my way to my next lodging. But before hitting my new hotel, I would visit Knightshayes Court and Garden. Knightshayes Court was built in the mid-1800’s and the original designs were for a fanciful medieval inspired manor. The owners rolled back some of the most…

Sunshine again! While it didn’t last all day I did have sunshine for a good portion of the day today. The bulk of today was sent at the castle and town of Dunster. About 40 minutes east of my lodging, Dunster is another very cute town definitely geared towards the tourist crowd. Parking is a…

I am soaked. It rained for the entire day and today’s excursion was to Tintagel Castle. The castle sits on an island of rock jutting out into the sea. The wind was whipping across the top of the island such that I could not see where I was going as the rain was flying directly…

Traveled near the city of Falmouth to go see the two Tudor era gun forts that protected the bay entrance from French and Spanish warships. Built on either side of the river mouth, Pendennis Castle and St. Mawes Castle were designed so that their fields of fire would overlap any ship trying to go upstream….

Before I begin today’s journey, a quick video of the upper floor of the cottage I’m staying at. I forgot to add that yesterday. Today was a big day! One of the major sights in Cornwall that I have been waiting to see, Saint Michael’s Mount. This was an island abbey, similar to Mont St….

It was a long drive today. Moving further west, to my new lodging was always going to be the longest drive of the trip but, oof! More than five hours just to get there, not counting stops along the way. The exciting part today was going to Dartmoor! This is a national park, yet somehow…

Today began my latest travel, this time to England. I haven’t been back to England, for a trip, since 2000. I’ve passed through the airport on my way elsewhere several times but this time it was the destination. I’ll be traveling around the southwest of England to Cornwall and Devon. Then heading up north to…

We had only one thing planned for the day, the Acropolis. Only a 20-ish minute walk from the hotel we took our time as we had timed tickets. We hoped they would let us in early but that didn’t really pan out. The Acropolis was one of our ‘must see’ items for Greece, kind of…

For our first full day in Athens we walked around 6 miles to see the Acropolis Museum and the Greek Agora. The walk to the Acropolis Museum passes by several Ancient Greek and Roman sights. The Acropolis Museum has a collection of finds from multiple excavations at the site as well as some of the…