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(pre-Covid!) Cock and Bull pub/Michael McIntyre stand up show (February 2020) On Saturday evening, we ate dinner and drank at Cock and Bull (British themed) pub-restaurant not far from Times Square. We’d only been there once, about 7 or 8 years ago, and the food was purty good then though we remembered it best forContinue reading “Two evenings in Manhattan: Cock & Bull, Drunken Munkey & Two Little Red Hens.”

Edinburgh, Yorkshire and Amsterdam (November 2017) Part 1 – Edinburgh (and Glasgow) We got back on Sunday (Nov 19th), and by the last day of the holiday it seemed quite a long time from the first when we alighted in Edinburgh. That’s the way some great trips should be, with 100s of different experiences!  ItContinue reading “Edinburgh”

(second leg of our Edinburgh, Yorkshire and Amsterdam trip) Day 5 (Edinburgh/Harrogate) – Breakfast again at Cafe Marlayne, top notch bacon and sausage sarnies on soft baps.  Then to the train station with our luggage, and for the three plus hour journey to Harrogate in North Yorkshire where my sister Lisa is now living.  WeContinue reading “North Yorkshire – Nov 2017”

(part 3 of our Edinburgh, Yorkshire and Amsterdam trip, Nov 2017) Leeds to Amsterdam The buses to most towns and the airport run very frequently from the station. The one to Leeds-Bradford Airport took about half an hour or so and we passed through a lot of countryside. In fact, even the airport itself isContinue reading “Amsterdam”

Canada (2019) Saturday August 10th – Around an hour or less before we left, Marie was quietly getting ready in the bedroom. I thought she was taking a while, but when she came out it seemed she had been doing essential research on the tinterweb, and paid for travel insurance for us.  Despite a freeContinue reading “Canada Part 1 – Montreal”

Day 9 –   PEI/Nova Scotia Marie was very sad to be leaving PEI.  I reassured her that Nova Scotia would be great too, and that a lot of the escapist delights of PEI would also exist in N.S.  So as to have one more Anne of Green Gables experience before we left, we thought we’dContinue reading “Canada Part 3: PEI to Nova Scotia”

Day 4 –  Prince Edward Island A bus to Montreal Airport, and a surprisingly quite large plane to Charlottetown, the capital of PEI. Charlottetown Airport is, not surprisingly, very small.  The rental car companies are right there in the tiny arrivals lounge.  We got the keys from Hertz for a Toyota Camry.   You pay aContinue reading “Canada Part 2: Prince Edward Island”