• Somerville to Bermuda: back in the pink

    Somerville to Bermuda: back in the pink

    17 May 2026 Back in cold and snowy January, Mike and I debated quite a bit about where to go on vacation this year. Costa Rica was an option. But at the time our country was waging war on both Venezuela and Denmark, so staying closer to home seemed like the best option. Our other “home” England was out, as the UK had recently required a hefty fee for dual citizens to enter the country. When we received an invitation to celebrate the June wedding of Mike’s nephew in Montana, we planned a trip to Glacier National Park and Bozeman… Read more

  • Bath to Heathrow to Somerville: it’s summer again.

    Bath to Heathrow to Somerville: it’s summer again.

    23 September 2025 [OOPS! It’s been two weeks since we returned home and I have been so busy that I have not been able to post about our final day. My apologies to our few, but very much valued, readers] We had a few hours to kill before our flight home, so we drove to Dyrham Park, a 17th century estate outside Bath run by The National Trust The National Trust is a very large charitable organization that owns, preserves and maintains over five hundreds homes, a thousand square miles of land and another eight hundred miles of coastline in… Read more