This year, there's a definite emphasis on getting-outside-and-walking because that's what we seem to enjoy most on trips.
That, and eating English desserts.
And pub food.
We're going to stay in a flat in London for eight nights and take trains out from there for side trips, which is what we usually do because it's easiest logistically. Then we move on to Oxford for a couple of nights.
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| Bluebells in the woods at Sissinghurst Castle, 2011 |
Leeds Castle (plenty of walks on the grounds)
Kew Gardens (Jerry's pick, and he has a Significant Birthday during this trip)
Cookham (the village where the painter Stanley Spencer lived and where there's a gallery of his work, plus a walk around town to see where he painted)
Cambridge (to see the university)
Hampstead Heath (more walks)
Courtauld Gallery (gotta have some art)
Oxford (to see the university and to figure out why Inspector Morse had so many murders to solve)
Blenheim Palace (trails on the grounds here, too)
Highgrove (Prince Charles's country home; we're having a tour of the garden)
Isle of Wight (primarily to see Osborne House, built by Queen Victoria)
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| Lunch with cousins in 2011; we'll do that again |
For the first time, I'll be in England for the annual family reunion in my mother's ancestral Cotswold village of Brailes in June. Where there's a pub.
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| Pub food: Conveniently everywhere |
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| The desserts are killer |
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| Dessert car at a restaurant in York. No wonder I gained six pounds last time. |
If I can just get over logistics-worry, I can't wait to go and do all this.
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