Blog posts about United Kingdom.

I have read so much English literature in my lifetime, I honestly almost skipped this country. I mean, really! Peter Rabbit, Peter Pan, Mary Poppins, The Secret Garden, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Winnie the Pooh, Harry Potter, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, …

Ok, so I really didn’t know a lot about this city before arriving last month. We’d never been to the United Kingdom before and it really wasn’t high on our list since it always seemed like such an easy place to visit (as a U.S. Passport holder) that I figured we’d get to it eventually.

Westminster Abbey, St Paul’s Cathedral, St Pancras, St. Bartholomew the Great. We are surrounded by beautiful churches in London.

Ok, I was kind of dreading it. I know people who *love* them. Nothing about them has ever been appealing to me. Thousands of people in a floating hotel which also has a shopping mall, and a Casino inside! It just sounds like a nightmare.

Gibraltar is a British overseas territory which is bordered by Spain, the Atlantic ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. It’s close enough to Africa that you can easily see the north of Morocco on a clear day.