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Yes he was serious. A Puritan. No dancing!
I don’t know how a modern life in England would be today. I’d like to travel and perhaps live on ancestral grounds for a several month jag of painting, hiking, eating, sitting, dreaming...
Definitely no pubs for William—At least not in the New World. He was a “founding” settler of Bristol, Rhode Island and church deacon. If he drank, he snuck it in the cow barn:)
I think only superman can turn back time, and I’m too busy scraping callouses off my feet for that call to action.
Here is William today:
England changed a lot for the past ten years let's say and now it changed again because of Brexit and the pandemic. It is very diverse and international. London I dare to say and have heard many others admit it is like New York really. It is not that quintessentially British anymore which is good and bad at the same time. Still the further away you go from the capital city the more authentic it is. The area in England where your ancestors came from is really fantastic for hiking as it is close to the Peak District which is an entire National Park. You can also spend some time in the Lake District which is a favourite region of mine. Beatrix Potter simply fell in love with the area, left London for Cumbria and wrote many successful books including her own illustrations. I think you would love Manchester and Liverpool too, great to eat and drink out, there is plenty of art but people still crave more. It goes without saying that you can ask me for travel tips once you decide to move forward with your holiday plans. I just advise you to rent a car once you arrive so you are entirely independent getting between places and able to reach even the charming remote villages. You can easily get a vehicle from somewhere up north so you don't have to drive for hours there from London which is probably where your long-haul flight will take you to.
Thank you very much for the tour! And I will get to England in this lifetime. I walk around the area on Google Maps and am so surprised by the attention to flora—the gardens! I work the yard soil two seasons a year, and respect a nation that makes living beauty a pastime. By the way, there’s a Throop village in Dorset (probably a relation), but far from the ancestral stomping grounds.
My good friend Damian is from Manchester. He will have my ear when I begin planning the trip. See? I am already planning.
And I certainly will ask you for tips. Although there’s one you already provided that just won’t do: Renting a car in the UK.
Did you realize you’re driving on the wrong side of the road? For me that is a learning curve longer than an earth left turn around the sun :)
No way. Trains and feet for me.
Thank you @petface!
Pleasure is all mine @ronthroop Please come over, explore, have fun and get inspired. People here like a bit of gardening and enjoy spending time outdoors. I personally love visiting the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in London. There is an orchid festival there that just started celebrating Costa Rica which I got tickets for. So keep an eye out for my next post. There are many formal gardens here in England managed by the National Trust. It is very cost effective to become a member and have unlimited access to all their properties. If you go to check out Throop village make sure you spend a few nights in Lyme Regis which is on what we call the Jurassic Coast. I shared a few photos of it here last year Another Day Another Beach If you are down here south already and have time you can check out one of the best gardens in England, Heligan. Then carry on to the Isles of Scilly known as the British Caribbean where you can do an island hopping and check out my favourite garden on Tresco.
I am pretty sure that your Manchester friend would love showing you around. Trains are reliable so you will be totally fine. There is Uber in most places too and people in the smaller towns and villages are quite friendly so I bet you will be offered a lift to a station if needed. If you are coming the other side of the ocean, why not call in Scotland too?
Yes, reliable trains.
The U.S. used to have those until Eisenhower and Ford decided the people were having too much fun, and built the ugliest highway system on earth.
The Jurassic Coast looks marvelous. There’s too much to see and do for the time and money I have left to spend on planet Earth. I’ll have to hone our European trip down to a few choice places in UK, France, Spain, maybe Italy.
We’re planning an October journey.
Thank you for all this dreamy stuff:)