Greetings from the United Kingdom! I came primarily to visit friends, and thus I’ve taken a bit of a vacation (or a holiday, as the Brits would say) from being a travel writer. I have not stepped foot in a museum, purchased a souvenir or consulted a guidebook. I could say, however, that I’ve been moonlighting…

London By Bus As you may have noticed, all the London activities I covered in my previous post were free! We decided before we arrived that we would splurge on one thing, and that was the double decker bus City Sightseeing Tour, the same company we went with in Glasgow and Edinburgh. It is pretty pricey…

London is one of those places in the world that I felt I had been to already without ever having stepped foot in it thanks to a lifetime experiencing it as the setting or even main character of thousands of books, movies and songs. While it sits firmly on many traveler’s bucket lists, I had felt…

Sorry for the light posting this week. Life has been crazy as I packed up my temporary life in Scotland, spent a whirlwind three days in London, and had a miserable day of travel to Athens. One lesson I have learned so far about blogging is I need to be better about building up my posts…