35 Years and 250+ Books

Our book club celebrated 35 years of reading and friendship with a wonderful trip to London. We had an literary focus, but visited other beautiful sites. 

Chihuly art added to the beauty of Kew Gardens. 

Persephone Books on Lamb’s Conduit is a publisher/bookseller of out-of-print female writers. Here we all are pictured with the owner. 

We were fortunate to be in London for the Chelsea Flower Show. Not only were the flowers in the show magnificent, but many shops along King Street were also decorated with flowers. 

We visited both the Charles Dickens home as well as the Sherlock Holmes Museum. You come away feeling that Sherlock was almost a real person!

It’s going to be hard to top this for our fortieth!!

English Foot Trails

Just finished our 7 day walk (62 miles) in the English countryside. And not a single raindrop fell while we were on the trail!!

So many lovely stone cottages with thatched roofs. 

The routes took us through woods, across fields, along tracks, into charming villages, and offered beautiful vistas. 

And, indeed, this is an accurate display of our average speed per hour each day. 

There was always time for a pint (or two) at the end of each day. 

Now on to London!