Day Trips – Yanks in the UK https://yanksintheuk.net A blog about Kurt & Lynnette's adventures living abroad Sat, 20 Jul 2019 20:09:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.14 Shakespeare’s Stratford-upon-Avon https://yanksintheuk.net/2019/07/shakespeares-stratford-upon-avon/ https://yanksintheuk.net/2019/07/shakespeares-stratford-upon-avon/#comments Sat, 20 Jul 2019 20:05:13 +0000 http://yanksintheuk.net/?p=811 Those wits, that think they have thee, do very oft prove fools. And I, that am sure I lack thee, may pass for a wise man. For what says Quinapalus? ‘Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.’ Twelfth Night, Act 1, Scene 5 We could credit Shakespeare for bringing us together. We met online …

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]]> Jane Austen’s Bath https://yanksintheuk.net/2019/02/jane-austens-bath/ https://yanksintheuk.net/2019/02/jane-austens-bath/#comments Fri, 22 Feb 2019 15:31:11 +0000 http://yanksintheuk.net/?p=644 Visit Jane Austen's Bath through the eyes of Yanks in the UK, and plan a trip to Bath

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]]> https://yanksintheuk.net/2018/09/heroes-at-highclere/feed/ 2 Return to Blogging https://yanksintheuk.net/2018/08/return-to-blogging/ https://yanksintheuk.net/2018/08/return-to-blogging/#comments Thu, 30 Aug 2018 15:59:02 +0000 http://yanksintheuk.net/?p=474 This blog has been sadly neglected this summer. We’ve had house-guests since early June; we still have one, and more are expected on and off through early October. We love our guests, but it’s been busy. We made two trips to Belgium, bought a car and started driving lessons (more on that in the next …

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]]> https://yanksintheuk.net/2018/08/return-to-blogging/feed/ 2 Rare Air https://yanksintheuk.net/2018/06/rare-air/ https://yanksintheuk.net/2018/06/rare-air/#comments Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:53:50 +0000 http://yanksintheuk.net/?p=353 A soft, grey haze hangs low over a wide, grassy field near the village of Duxford. Tiny flowers in yellow and white dot the green here and there. Not far away, perhaps a quarter mile, past a row of parked airplanes, a young man is climbing into a Spitfire fighter. A hundred and eighty miles …

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