I'm at JFK, waiting to board my flight to Heathrow and then a minivan to Nottingham, England! I'm going to spend five days following in Robin Hood's footsteps, in the honor of the new Robin Hood movie that hits theaters on May 14th. On the itinerary is Nottingham Castle, Sherwood Forest and Galleries of Justice […]

Today's guest blogger, Jill Martin Wrenn, lives in Atlanta (you may remember her last guest-blog post about The Georgia Aquarium). So when she tells people she went to Birmingham, they think she's talking about the city in Alabama and not the one England. But Jill, who lived in London for seven-and-a-half years, is most certainly […]

I love buying souvenirs when I travel. No matter how many pictures I take, I still want a tangible memory. Something that I can hold in my hand and think, I was there. But I won't just buy any old souvenir. Oh no, it has to be perfect — at least in that moment when […]

This is the third in a series about my three-day jaunt to London in November. Read about my arrival, hotel and first evening here, and my first day of Kensington Gardens, shopping and Tate Modern here. After a full day, I returned to my room at the Sheraton Park Tower, where I found my husband […]

(To read the first installment — my flight, hotel and first evening in London — click here.) It was my first real day in London and I knew I had to make the most of it since I essentially only had two full days there. I didn’t wake up as early as I should have […]

I often fantasize about jetting off to some European capital on a whim for the weekend. Well, this past November I did just that. And even though I didn’t fly on a private plane or disembark on a red carpet like I do in my fantasy, it was still pretty fabulous. The reason I got […]

(photo by Roryrory) You’ll find many of the world’s major museums in London like the stately British Museum, the two Tates — the Britain and the Modern — and the vast V&A. You’ll also find small wonders off the typical tourist track that are equally impressive and enjoyable. The decorative gem Sir John Soane's Museum […]