Half the World Away

I can’t say that I’ve been a lifelong Oasis fan. Hell, I can’t really say that I was fan during their peak in the mid to late 90s. Sure, like everybody else, I knew Wonderwall and Champagne Supernova but never expanded past these hits that were seemingly being played everywhere during my prepubescence. On the…

London Winter 10k

The original inspiration for this trip was to provide an appealing alternative to the show I didn’t get cast into. Almost simultaneously, Lauren discovered that London had a winter 10k around the time we were planning on going. Every February, London hosts a winter 10k as a fundraiser for cancer research with entry fees going…

Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History

Our first full day started normally with our inaugural search for coffee which led us to a small coffee roaster in the heart of London called Rosslyn Coffee. Armed with our daily cup of caffeine, we headed to the Tower of London, for our first half a day tour. The Tower of London Also set…

The Lost Weekend

Let me take you back to the fall of 2022, where my loyal readers will remember that Lauren and I travelled to Germany (the first time) with a handful of friends to celebrate Oktoberfest. Towards the end of that trip we both came down (presumably) with covid and we experienced the beer tents, zombie like,…