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Travel Plans: Anglotopia Is Coming to Britain for Christmas 2013! – An...
We’ve got some exciting news! After an 18 month absence, we will finally be returning to the UK for a long visit later this year.We last visited Britain during the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee last year and...
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An English Christmas Trip: First Trip Planning Post – How the Trip Came About
On Christmas Day last year, Mrs. Anglotopia and I were rather despondent. While Christmas is our favorite time of year, it just wasn’t that enjoyable for us. Maybe it was the winter blues, maybe it was...
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An English Christmas Trip: Trip Planning Update – Where We’re Staying On Our...
It’s been more than a month since my last post about our upcoming trip to Britain. Planned for December we will be experiencing a traditional English Christmas in Dorset, so I thought it would be a...
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An English Christmas Trip 2013 – Planning Out the London Portion of Our trip
We’re at the 70 day mark – 70 days until we arrive in England for a massive 33 days. It’s coming up fast. Which means it’s time to really get stuck-in planning this trip.As promised, I want to give...
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An English Christmas Trip: Planning the Christmas Events for our Trip to London
In our last post about our trip to England, we scratched the surface of what we have planned for London. This week, we wanted to drill down further and list all the Christmas events/attractions that...
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An English Christmas Trip: Planning the Non-Christmas Events for the London...
Last week I wrote about what we had planned related to Christmas while we’re in London. Here’s a few other things we’d like to do while were in London that aren’t related to Christmas.Click here for...
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British Travel: Where to Buy British Pounds in the USA before Your Trip
We’re just about 3 weeks away from our upcoming trip to the UK (read all about that here) and as we got closer, we realized that we were going to need some British currency before we left.For several...
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An English Christmas Trip: A Few Words About Our Car Rental and Plans for...
The last few articles we have written have been all about our plans during the London portion of our trip. Now, it’s time to move on to the rest of the trip. Catch up on all the trip plans here.One of...
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An English Christmas Trip: The Top British Christmas Traditions We’re Looking...
Ever since we decided to spend Christmas in England this year, our minds have been focused on all the things we’re looking forward to most while we celebrate our favorite time of the year in our...
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An English Christmas Trip: Some Notes About the Dorset Portion of Our Trip
I’ve written at length at what we have planned for the London portion of our trip so now I’d like to move on to what we have planned while we’re in Dorset. When this post is published, we’ll be on our...
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An English Christmas Trip: The View from Updown Cottage Yesterday
Here is the view from Updown Cottage yesterday. We were blessed with mostly beautiful and sunny weather yesterday. It was moderately warm – around 50 Degrees F. A very enjoyable day. Which will be...
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British Travels: What’s It Like to Go to the Movies in Britain? It’s...
One our recent trip to Britain we had the opportunity to go to the cinema twice. Now, usually the first reaction when we say we went to the movies while traveling is that people say that you can do...
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Desktop Wallpaper: London Skyline from the View from the Shard – @shardview
I’ve been making my way through the 2,000 or so pictures we took during our recent trip and this one immediately jumped out as one of my favorites. In fact it’s now set as my desktop wallpaper. It was...
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British Travels: Random Observations From Our Recent Christmas Trip to Britain
Every time we travel to Britain we learn something new. We’ve been there a dozen times and there is always something new to learn and discover about our favorite place to visit. Discovery is the best...
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Photo: The Old Mill in Lower Slaugher – The Cotswolds
Here’s a lovely shot of the old mill in Lower Slaughter in the Cotswolds, taken a few weeks ago on our visit. Beautiful village and well worth a visit. The post Photo: The Old Mill in Lower Slaugher –...
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British Travels: Adventures With a British Hire Car (American Translation: A...
One of my favorite things to do when we visit Britain is to drive.To me, there is nothing more pleasurable than hopping into the car and driving through the English countryside (or through a city).I’m...
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Photo: View South from Hambledon Hill in Dorset
Here’s a relaxing countryside shot of the Dorset Hills to ponder on a quiet Sunday. This photo was taken from the top of Hambledon Hill, looking south towards the end of the day as some rain began to...
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British Travels: Highlights of Where We Ate During our One Month Trip to...
After every trip, we always share a list of the places we ate. This time around, the list is rather large because were in the UK for so long (33 days). So, this is not an exhaustive list of every...
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British Travels: Our Favorite New Experiences from our Last Trip to Britain
Having been to Britain so many times, there are always things we always like to do when we visit. But we also like to have some variety – it’s not good to always just do the same things over and over....
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Anglophile Zen: Episode 3 – Spend Five Minutes in Beautiful Covent Garden...
In the latest episode of Anglophile Zen, spend five minutes in Covent Garden Market in London. Put on some headphones, put this video on full screen and be transported to the sights and sounds of...
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