Britain seems to be a bit closer to WWII than the US is. That may be an incorrect impression, but, either way, it should be no surprise. There are any number of museums and memorials dedicated to various aspects of the war, and this is one of them. Pictured on …
This Handley Page Hastings is on display at the Newark Air Museum in Nottinghamshire, UK.
Visitors from the US to the UK who elect to drive tend to want to lock themselves into their hotel or B & B room after their first adventure on the roads. It is not that the drivers are nuts, which they aren’t, or even that driving on the opposite …
This is the Charnwood Museum located in the lovely Queen’s Park in Loughborough, UK. Loughborough is in the Charnwood Borough, which is in Leicestershire in England. The museum features local history and more. On the day I explored the park the sun was out and bright. Families were enjoying the …
Off to Manchester! Well, that was a few weeks ago. A fascinating trip to the UK started, more or less, with a flight from PHL to MAN (that’s Philadelphia to Manchester in airline lingo) on an A330-200. Generally, the A330 is a nice airplane. It is laid out in the …
You never know what you will see on the Erie Canal. This heron turned up at Lock 6 on the Erie Canal near Cohoes, NY. He (we assume he was a he) was quietly surveying the water for (again, we assume) fish. There was only one other visitor …
