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We made plans to visit London several months ago.  And the primary reason for visiting was to see the First Emperor exhibit at the British Museum.  I reasoned that it was less expensive to visit London than having to get new visas for China, travel 25 hours, plus more time traveling from Beijing to the original [...]

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Sunday was a beautiful day; sunny with puffy clouds and blue sky.  We opted to sleep in this day as this was the weekend when England started their summer time schedule.  Weren’t we lucky to experience “springing ahead” twice in one month on two different continents?
The time difference between England and Massachusetts was now five [...]

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In 2004 we visited England and Scotland.  It was our first 10 day vacation.  We visited London and Oxford in England and then took a train from Oxford to Edinburgh where we toured the city and took both a day trip and overnight trip to the lower Highlands.
On this visit we focused solely on London and [...]

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London Calling
Yeah, I was there too
An’ you know what they said
Well some of it was true!
London Calling
At the top of the dial
After all this, won’t you give me a smile? 
-The Clash
We leave for London on Thursday.  We will be visiting the British Museum to take in the First Emperor: China’s Terra Cotta Army Exhibit. The Terra Cotta [...]

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Here are a few of my favorite shots from Santa Fe and surrounding areas.
The views from our hotel room at the Inn & Spa at Loretto (Santa Fe):
     
White Rock Overlook (Los Alamos)
     
Bandelier National Monument (Los Alamos)
In Bandelier Monument you can take a self-guided tour of extensive ancestral pueblo ruins.  Ancestral pueblo groups occupied [...]

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After a glorious week of just “being” in Santa Fe, we returned home last night around 9:30pm.  I can’t recall being in Logan Airport and witnessing such a quiet environment.  There were no more outgoing flights on United (at least in our part of the terminal.)  There were no vendors selling their wares, except for [...]

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