Sunday Post: Exploring Winchester With Jetlag
This week, we take you on an exploration of Winchester, which we decided to visit right after a long transatlantic flight. It was worth it!
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Sunday Post: A Perfect Birthday in Shaftesbury, Dorset
Today is my birthday, so I thought it would be fun to take you on a trip I took over a decade ago to spend my birthday in Dorset. It's…
Sunday Post: Blists Hill - The Sounds of Progress
This week, we visit Shropshire again, this time to a special living museum that connects me to my childhood and my ancestors.
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Sunday Post: The Tiny Shropshire Town With a Global Connection
With the winter Olympics approaching, I thought it would be fun to tell you about a little town in Shropshire with a big connection to world events that charmed me…
Sunday Post: Sunday Post: Hadrian’s Wall Planning Update - Plus The Vindolanda Tablets
This week, I give an update on my plans to walk Hadrian’s Wall in August, plus we explore the amazing discovery that gave us a personal window into life on…
Sunday Post: New Year's On Gold Hill
As part of a new yearly tradition here, we're going to reshare our experiences of staying in the UK over New Year's. It was a magical week where we had…
Sunday Post: Christmas on Gold Hill
This week for the Sunday Post, we continue our yearly tradition of sharing our story of the time we spent Christmas in the most wonderful place in England - Gold…
Sunday Post: A Festive Guide to British Christmas Traditions
This week, we have a special exploration of British Christmas cultural traditions that aren't really practiced across the pond in the USA.
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Sunday Post: Concorde's Supersonic Prison
This week, I share another excerpt from my next book, this time a chapter about the Concorde museum in Bristol.
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Sunday Post: Hadrian’s Wall Training Update - Wall History From the Normans to the Border Wars
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This week, I give another regular update on my plans to walk Hadrian’s Wall next year, and as we explore the history of this…
Sunday Post: A Very London Christmas day out
This week, I built a time machine and went back to 2013 and wrote about a Christmas day out in London we had when we visited for a month over…
Sunday Post: The Village Built Out of Spite
This week, I share another excerpt from my upcoming book, Searching for the Heart of Britain, about a special village in Dorset that was built out of spite and…
Sunday Post: Tea is the Glue That Holds Britain Together Culturally
This week, we explore Tea and how it basically holds British society together, and has for most of its modern history! This is always a fun topic to explore. What's…
Sunday Post: The Castle Ruin and the New House it Replaced
This week, I explore a special place I was surprised to discover I hadn't written about properly yet - a beautiful National Trust property that includes not one but two…
Sunday Post: The Pure Joy of Autumn in England
This week, I write about how Autumn in England is pretty much the best kind of Autumn that a person can experience.
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Sunday Post: Preparing for Hadrian’s Wall October Update and Why Was the Wall Abandoned?
This week, I talk about some major updates on my quest to walk Hadrian's Wall next summer, then we explore why the wall was abandoned and what happened to it…
Sunday Post: A Secret Place Where Time Stands Still
I've written about Calke Abbey several times before. But when I was putting together Searching for the Heart of Britain, I knew I would have to share a chapter about…
Sunday Post: Chasing the RAF Red Arrows
In celebration of finishing my latest memoir about Britain (I finished the last chapter Friday!) - Searching for the Heart of Britain - I'm sharing another excerpt - and one…
Sunday Post: The Edge of the Roman World at Hardknott Roman Fort
This week I wrote about a special place I visited back in 2018 - the Hardknott Roman Fort in Cumbria, which was one of Rome's furthest outposts in Britain.
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Sunday Post: The Imperfect Perfect London Hotel
This week, I share another excerpt from my upcoming book 'Searching for the Heart of Britain' - this original chapter is about our favorite hotel in London, which we've gone…
