December 2010

Stateside by the Skin of Our Teeth

December 24, 2010

Cross-Atlantic travel is never easy. Not only is it the 6 hour flight and 5 hour time difference, it’s the general hassle involved with air travel today – packing, luggage, security, dehydration, cramped overhead compartments, etc.  But this Christmas must be every traveler’s nightmare. My previous post hinted to the possibility that the snowstorm that [...]

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Snowmygosh

December 18, 2010

Despite snow in London supposedly being rare, we’re experiencing our second big snow of December. High pressure built across the area trapping the cold air from the North Pole (or something like that) dropping up to 10 inches across most of England (6 inches in London).  The timing of the winter weather couldn’t be worse [...]

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Wrapping Up

December 15, 2010

First, my apologies for some dead air on the blog this week. I’m pretty confident that I’ve been too distracted with this: Yep, that’s right. Virgin-Atlantic has a day/hour/minute countdown for our Christmas flight back to the States. I had falsely assumed that the office would settle down this week and I would have time [...]

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Getting around courtesy of the London cabbie

December 7, 2010

Since my surgery, David and I have been spoiled a little. Instead of our normal preferred transportation method – the double decker bus at 1 pound 20 per ride- we have been splurging on black cabs. And it is a splurge: according to this tariff chart I saw, it’s pretty impossible to travel one mile journey for [...]

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