Well.
This
would have to be the UK trip in 2014. It wasn’t going to be a vacation. It was
intended to be a whole new life plan – for two years, maybe more. But !
Sometimes things just don’t turn out how you think.
Not
sure what went wrong, probably planning and bad communication, different
expectations – and all that. Nevertheless, we had a 3 month vacation in the
end.
We
explored almost every nook and cranny on that island. Coming from our own
island nation we got a little thrill each time we crossed a border from England
to Wales or Scotland to England. It just seemed so weird – no planes involved
and no passports either. So unlike things on this end of the planet.
We
met family members – some we had never met before. We explored villages and
hamlets and churchyards and stepped in the footsteps of our forebears.
There
weren’t many places we visited which we would not return to; and there were
plenty we missed which are being saved for a return visit. One day.
Middlesex,
Surrey, Sussex, Somerset, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire, Worcestershire,
Herefordshire, Wiltshire, Powys, Montgomeryshire, Flintshire, Devon,
Warwickshire, Oxfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Shropshire, Essex,
Berkshire, Norfolk, Yorkshire, Kent, Monmouthshire, Denbighshire, Radnorshire, Brecknockshire,
Glamorgan, Leicestershire, Suffolk, Lanarkshire, Midlothian, Argyllshire,
Inverness-shire, Selkirkshire, Roxburghshire, Dumfriesshire, Peeblesshire,
Durham, Northumberland, Cumberland…some we just drove through, others we
lingered for longer. Even more we wished we had had a better plan.
Still,
we made some great memories and now there is the goal to get back and revisit,
rediscover and just explore.
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