"On Tuesdays and Thursdays the balls begin at six. Very promptly. Mr Nash leads out the most noble lord and lady in the minuet to begin the dancing. It was my Lord Baltimore last night and I swear his coat was lined quite through with ermine.."
Diary of Sophie Carey, visitor to Bath in 1726
Bath...
Edinburgh Scotland is notably untouched by time. The entire city is steeped in a mysterious medieval romance. Shadowy nooks and hidden alley ways all allude to dirty deeds taking place hundreds of years ago. The main drag through town is called the Royal Mile, well named considering there is...
Rain. Fog. London. Princess Diana. Fish and chips. Theater. Shakespeare. Harry Potter. These words, people, and phrases are often pictured in one's mind when thinking about England and the United Kingdom, all of which add to the mystique and romance of this small island country.
Nestled...
All the computer generated images and wild fantasies of sci-fi visionary writers cannot even begin to conjure up the surreal visual of watching a giant seagull attack someone. It was as though Hitchcock’s classic film about birds gone loony was being played out before me and my friends, but in...
American students studying abroad get to experience life like they never have before. Of all the cities I traveled to while abroad (London, Dublin, Derry, Belfast, Edinburgh, Paris), my favorite and perhaps the most memorable was a small little town in Northern Ireland called Kilcar. Upon arriving...