Bronte Country

The house where the extraordinary Bronte sisters grew up is a little over an hour by bus and train from Manchester. The village of Haworth i...

JK Rowling's cafe in Edinburgh

Sunday I went to brunch in Edinburgh with Matt and Susan Reed, a British couple we met in the Galapagos. We went to a little place called t...

A newspaper launch

I'm back in the States with the family now for 10 days. I've been in England for the better part of five months now to help with th...

Wordsworth's lakes

This is Dove Cottage , in Grasmere in the Lakes region of England, where Wordsworth wrote some of his most important poetry. Wordsworth and ...

More words

There are so many everyday expressions that are different here. We say, "I want a round-trip ticket to London." Brits say, "...

Oxford and computer theft

About 16,000 students attend the three dozen colleges at Oxford , and you can see how they get around the narrow streets of this medieval to...

Liverpool and the Mersey Ferry

This is a photo of the mythical Cavern Club, where the Beatles played some 220 gigs in the early '60s. The club is faithfully recreated...