It took us three trains and three hours to make our pilgrimage from Brighton to Canterbury. These are our tales. If you’re expecting something bawdy, you’ll need to read Chaucer. The Mexican Food Lover’s Tale One of the things we miss from the States is Mexican food. So when our friends from London suggested that we …

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I thought this was a pretty dramatic way to enshrine the spot where the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Beckett, was murdered in 1170. Other less dramatic tales from our trip to Canterbury to come.

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When we very first came to Brighton for a short stay at the end of 2008, we looked into going to Pooh Corner and Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, the stomping grounds of A.A. Milne’s son Christopher Robin, and inspiration for many of the stories and landmarks in Winnie the Pooh (1926) and The House at Pooh Corner (1928). …

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Friends in London invited us to explore Kent with them this weekend, and so we took 3 trains to arrive at Leigh (sounds like Lye) and then set off on a 6-mile walk which took us past a castle, a village, a few streams, cows, sheep, oast houses, and fields and fields of tall, stiff wheat stalks wavering in crushed rows. …

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Smiling despite the long queue at Victoria Station to buy an Oyster card for the Underground. AC uses his deductive powers to determine that the Jubillee Line was closed and that we needed to take three different tube trains to our destination. Then the Super Sleuth found us a free bus to take us to St. John’s Wood. …

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The most wonderful Macbeth I’ve ever seen. Definitely the most visceral–blood, entrails, smoke, incense, thumping, pounding rhythm and quavering pipes. I cried and I laughed and was generally transfixed. Here the cast sing a stirring Gaelic round for their curtain call in the beautiful Globe theatre on the Thames in …

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I am a timid cyclist. I love being outdoors and I love seeing new places and because I am married to an adventurous cyclist who is not at all timid, I get persuaded to try excursions that would otherwise never enter my mind. Such as yesterday: I had an idea to take Sam to watch the B&H gymnastics club competition. …

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An impromptu trip: we cycled along the coast to Rottingdean today, a little village to the east of Brighton. Once we got past the throngs of people shuffling around near the Brighton Pier and Marina, it was a lovely ride, if a bit incongruous: on one side, lovely grassy coastline and cliff views; on the other side, the …

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For my 40th birthday coming up in a few days I decided that I wanted to go see something really old. A 5000 year old prehistoric stone circle seemed like it should do the trick. However, there were some obstacles to today’s jaunt up to Salisbury and then over to Stonehenge. First, our train was canceled. Then it …

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