I had been looking forward to visiting the famous travel shop near London’s Covent Garden with much expectation and anticipation. From everything that I had read about the place it appeared to be a kind of mecca for travelers. I’m happy to report that when I was in London a couple of weeks ago I […]
I was fortunate to find a first edition copy of Judith Gilford’s book The Packing Book (1994) in my local library and have been reviewing the author’s advice for traveling with just enough personal items to have everything one needs to travel in comfort but without being weighed down with a lot of unnecessary stuff that probably […]
This website was featured on a tv channel yesterday. It refers to itself as an “urban walking route planner.” You can enter a start and destination location on the home page and it will display a route map for the walk. It will also display the estimated journey time, number of calories that can be […]