Travel to learn. Learn to travel.
Bill looked up from booking our flights for a one-week trip to England. Ryanair had the least expensive, but we’d pay extra for carryon bags. “Can we do it with just a personal item each?” he mused.
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Dark oak bookshelves, subdued lighting, gently creaking floors and that unmistakable odour of aging paper, leather and bookbinding glue. Chetham’s Library – amongst several notable Manchester libraries – thrilled me from head to toe.
Manchester’s Fab 4 includes England’s oldest public library Read more
With a little help from our friends, I wanna hold your hand, go on a magical mystery tour and imagine we all live in a yellow submarine. We sang and danced our way along a pilgrimage in Liverpool where The Beatles grew up and played.
Imagine unity via music: we followed the Liverpool Beatles trail Read more
While waiting in line to get into a jazz club, located a stone’s throw from London’s musically historical Denmark Street, we looked up and saw a blue plaque that told us Mozart used to live there.
Jazz, Denmark Street, Evensong: notes on musical London Read more