by Helen Kain | Jun 15, 2024 | Castles & Stately Houses, Home, Recent, Unique Places to Stay
Though we were in England for only ten days on this trip, it was jam-packed with houses, castles, and gardens. The first leg of our journey was exploring the Royal Palaces In and Around London. From there, we drove to Essex to The Head Gardener’s House at Audley...
by Helen Kain | May 28, 2024 | Gardens, Recent
Hidcote Manor Garden is one of Britain’s best-known Arts and Crafts gardens. Its fame is all the more astonishing as the stunning masterpiece was not designed by a professional landscape architect but by an amateur with a tremendous interest in plants and garden...
by Helen Kain | May 19, 2024 | Castles & Stately Houses, Recent
The first leg of our most recent trip to England began with a 10 pm arrival at the Mayfair Townhouse just off Piccadilly, across from Green Park. Having arisen at 2:30 am to catch a very early flight out of Toronto, we had no trouble falling asleep promptly. Very...
by Helen Kain | Oct 22, 2023 | Abbeys, Monasteries and Churches, Castles & Stately Houses, Recent
Our travel to England revolves around finding unusual places to stay within reach of castles, cathedrals and stately homes we want to visit. At the end of Week #1, we bid goodbye to the Russian Cottage on the Chatsworth Estate. From there, we drove north to Bamburgh...
by Helen Kain | Oct 8, 2023 | Abbeys, Monasteries and Churches, Castles & Stately Houses, Recent, Towns & Cities
We’ve been back from England for a few weeks now and are now fully recombobulated. I was determined to promptly process all the photos I took on the journey and set myself the task of going through all 1693 photos at the rate of 100 a day. That’s done...
by Helen Kain | May 5, 2023 | Cathedrals, Recent
London is abuzz with preparations for the Coronation. When we visited in early April, the street in front of Buckingham Palace was already closed off, with tiered seating erected across the Mall and nearby Green Park. The scale of preparation for the historic event is...
