Locationless Living

London in November. That phrase just screams tourism and sight-seeing doesn’t it? Actually, in spite of the fact that it is usually chilly and cloudy, there was a gorgeous bright, sunny, and almost warm day recently. So I took the camera out and explored the English capital. Here’s some stuff I found.      The [...]

Thank god for the internet. I say this a lot in my day to day life, like when I need to find my way around London and can pull out my smartphone to find maps, or when I Skype with friends back home, or when I need to watch all my favorite American TV shows [...]

Birmingham is the second largest city in England. Since I've always had a soft spot for large cities that get overshadowed by bigger  neighbors (like Medellin and my home city of Philadelphia) I decided the Fiance and I should take a quick weekend trip there from London.  We hopped on a Chiltern Railways train from [...]

Until I went to France, I had never skied on a mountain before. Don't get me wrong, I had skied before. Oh, I had ridden the T-bar up the side of a nice Appalachian mound, and rode my planks down again, enjoying a lovely bit of breeze and and occasional waves of frosty flakes flying [...]

A friend of mine here in London recently took a bus trip to Edinburgh with a well known discount bus line. They lost his luggage. On a BUS. Luckily, he didn't bring much with him. Also luckily, it's Edinburgh he was going to. So he had an awesome time, regardless if he was toothbrushless. (And [...]

Cruises always make me think of the tropics. That's because almost all cruise promotional material shows families in bathing suits on beaches, or lying on the deck of a cruise liner, soaking up lots of sun. (Oh, to be a family of models.) I imagine the tropical cruises are what we see the most of [...]