August 29, 2008
Today was our day for the zoo! ZSL London (Zoological Society of London). We took the Green Line bus again – it is about the same price as the train, but drops off at Victoria Station which makes most of the City of Westminster accessible by foot and most importantly (when one [...]
My old school, in England was St. Edmund’s College, near Ware, Hertfordshire. A nice short history is available at Wikipedia if you want to look click here. We had tried the day before to pop in, however the gates were locked and I was not at all sure anyone was there. I emailed overnight and received [...]
We have a rental car for a few days (19th and 20th) in order to take Grandma out to Woburn Abbey a whilelife safari park in Bedfordshire. We rented a delightfully perky car a Vauxhall Astra (which looks a lot like a Saturn Astra) a decent deal actually at about $35 a day which is fairly [...]
Our first act of abject tourism! Hayden and I hit Knebworth House, a local stately home made famous by two things I suppose, that it has been venue to many top rung rock concerts since the mid 1970’s including acts such as Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Genesis and more over the years … [...]
Today (Monday August 4th 2008) Hayden and I decided to rectify a long standing omission. Having lived in Stevenage throughout my childhood I had never been to Knebworth House, home of the Lytton family and of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton. So who is Bulwer-Lytton? Lord Lytton was a florid, popular writer of his day, who [...]
