Category: United Kingdom

It’s time to begin learning what cycling the UK is like. It can be a lengthy process in a new country, requiring exposure to different roads, cyclepaths, and traffic types, observing the behavior of other cyclists and drivers to learn what is culturally acceptable, all while regaining comfort with cycling on the “wrong” side of… Read more…

The Queen Mary 2 arrived to Southampton while we slept, so waking up and looking over our balcony rail this morning showed a bunch of ugly port infrastructure, quite a change from a week of seeing nothing but open ocean (also, I could see the large luggage carts stacked with peoples’ checked baggage being forklifted… Read more…

I’ve never thought of myself as a “cruise person”. In fact, I had assumed (hoped?) that I would pass to the end of my days before ever taking a cruise. Read more…