When Daniel and I started traveling our tentative plan was to spend the first half of the year seeing different countries in Europe, and the second half traveling through Asia. Then coronavirus hit, and instead we spent three months in the United Kingdom; two months in England between London and the Lake District, and a…
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Scotland
For the past two and a half weeks Daniel and I have been staying in a small Scottish village halfway between the cities of Aberdeen and Dundee on the eastern coast. As in England, we are in a fairly remote farmhouse, though in this location we’re actually close enough to walk to a town, which…
Rural England in Pictures
I’ve struggled to think of what to write, because the reality is that Daniel and I aren’t doing much new nowadays due to the covid lockdown in the UK. We’re still out in the sticks in the English countryside, surrounded by sheep fields and not much else. We’ve been staying busy, reading, writing, video-gaming, cooking,…
Locked-Down with Sheep
Daniel and I have been in rural England for the last three weeks, and we plan on staying here until it becomes easier to travel. When we realized that quarantine was imminent, we decided to go someplace rural where we’d have more space and an easier time avoiding others. We’re staying in the area between…
Road Trip though England
When Daniel and I were in London we decided to take a road trip through the country. We both saw the writing on the wall and realized that, like Italy, the UK was probably headed towards lockdown. Neither of us wanted to get stuck in London, so we decided to get a car, head to…
London: A Totally Unplanned Stay
Daniel and I ended up in England unexpectedly, when we had to catch a last-minute flight out of Italy when the country went on coronavirus lockdown and the PM ordered non-residents to leave. Because of the unplanned nature of our arrival, we didn’t have any plans for what to do, and had only booked one…
Driving in the UK
As part of our ad hoc trip to The UK, we decided we wanted to stay at a more remote place in the countryside. A consequence of this is that we’d need a car to get around. After doing research, I found out that I could legally drive in the UK with just a US…