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Winter Tourism, Volume Two: National Media Museum, Bradford

Welcome to another brisk and ever-so-slightly treacherous day in the UK! The weather here in West Yorkshire and, indeed, over most of the country is cold, icy, and threatening more of the same for the rest of the week. I’m in fact home today because without a car, it was just too dangerous [...]
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Winter Tourism, Volume One: Tropical World, Leeds

One of the things that many American visitors dream of when they visit the UK is seeing castles, stately manor homes, and other such pieces of antiquity that just aren’t available in our young country.  I remember being amazed when I looked down at where I was standing in Westminster Abbey and seeing a date [...]
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Right, so that’s how much “American?”

In thinking about Dave and his family’s upcoming trip to the UK, I started thinking about the things that might be helpful to know in terms of conversions – clothing/shoe sizes, money, temperature, etc. I’d also like to share some of the helpful online converters I’ve bookmarked in my nine months living here. First, let’s [...]
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Happy 2010 from London!

“…we’ll drink a cup of kindness dear, for days of auld lang syne!” Happy New Year from the UK-dwelling half of TOB!
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