Excellent adventures in travel
Monday was our last morning in York. We started the day with a bit of Edwardian elegance: breakfast at Betty’s Cafe. Started in 1919, Betty’s interior is meant to evoke sailing (first class) on the Queen Mary. Third class sailing would have been a somewhat different experience, methinks. Then we wandered through the Shambles. One … Read more
Sunday was blustery with sunny patches. We took the train from York to Malton, then taxied to Castle Howard. (Our original plan – the 181 bus direct from York to the estate – went bust when we realized the bus didn’t run on Sundays.) Seat of the Dukes of Norfolk, this is a grand house … Read more
We are in York at the start of our Northeast England adventures. Transport from Denver was uneventful for us, not so much for the lady-of-a-certain age who spent much of the trip stretched out in the mid-ships galley with an IV in her arm. I envied her the stretched-out bit. She was lively, back in … Read more
Tuesday morning we made our way through neighborhood streets towards Montmartre. We took a tour of the Galeries Lafayette, an upmarket department store across the street from the opera house. Montmartre cemetery is a good place to hobnob with the formerly rich and famous. It is a cemetery of a certain age … and enduring … Read more
Reluctantly dragging ourselves away from St. Denis Cathedral, we made our way south to the Seine and the Jardin des Plantes, Paris’ botanical gardens. The Natural History Museum and zoo are here, so the obligatory carousel was appropriately themed. The gardens were a bit disappointing – especially after the glories of the Chantilly Flower Show. … Read more