Edinburgh

While we've been to Edinburgh several times (my favorite), we thought we'd try and visit the other Scottish cities. So we got in a few very short visits to each: Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dunfermline, Inverness, Aberdeen, and Dundee.

GLASGOW (Lanarkshire):

Both Yorks have too many tourists. Maybe it was especially packed because we came during the Christmas market season. Christmas seems to be a much bigger holiday in England than in the US (and it's also much more secular.)

With…

Last week was my birthday (Tanya here) and we took a trip up north for the day on the train. The trip was about 1 ½ hours each way on the LNER. Very comfortable. The ride north had almost nobody…

Neighborhood 10: Jesmond and Gosforth

So we once again hopped on a bus to Newcastle City Centre and then took a quick metro ride to Jesmond. It's just north of the city centre and apparently very crowded with students living…

Neighborhood 8: Chester-le-Street

We hopped on a bus south towards Chester-le-Street (bus 21), straight down Durham Road. It was about a 25 minute bus ride from our current home, so, yes, it's a bit far from the center of Newcastle.

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Neighborhood 7: The coastal towns near the North Sea

We hopped on a bus and metro out to North Shields first. (We finally got our POP cards that cap our daily use on the metro to £5 each, so that…

And now we go backwards…..we'll tell you a little bit about our trip from Vermont to New York:

Since we sold our car, we had to rent a car to get down to New Jersey. I swear that I chose…

(I wrote half this blog post and then it disappeared, so this is ‘take 2’.)

We made it to Newcastle upon Tyne!! This will be our last blog post about the Queen Mary 2 so here are photos from our…

Sunset from our balcony

Welcome back! So we are currently on our final full day at sea. We arrive in Southampton, England tomorrow morning, early. We may not be able to post another blog post until after we arrive…perhaps in…

(we made it past the Titanic site….we are north of the Azores and south of Greenland, 
more than halfway there)

Wow, I can't believe this crossing is almost over. Only one more full day after today! 

Scott still isn't feeling…

We're over halfway there!! Only a few more days left on this ship. Unfortunately Scott has gotten sick with some sort of cold (NOT Covid…we tested). That's what happens when you're on a ship with a few thousand people. 

Today…

(my blogging corner in the King's Court Buffet)

Yesterday was the first day I really felt swaying and heard creaking of the ship. Makes it harder to walk the deck and climb stairs. I only started feeling it while we…

(Sunset from our balcony)

Good morning! I am writing this as I have a mid-morning coffee in a nice quiet corner of the buffet. We've got pictures and videos from yesterday, including our first afternoon tea (they will be more…

We are now just over 6 weeks from the time we set sail on the Queen Mary 2!

There's still SO much to do. This week I'll share with you just how difficult it is to organize everything for…

It took a long time to decide what we wanted in a place and what our options really were. We had some false starts. Almost 3 1/2 years ago we applied to Canada on their self-employment visa, and we still…

Welcome to our blog! We teach viola and violin lessons around the world via Skype. This is the first post in a series about our upcoming move to England, and we hope you'll follow us here on our adventure!

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