Here, in just two rooms, are the literary treasures of Western civilization, from early Bibles to Shakespear’e Hamlet to Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Category: International – Cool Locations
Lying some 90 miles west of London in the Wiltshire countryside, Stonehenge is perhaps the world’s most awe-inspiring ancient stone circle. Older than the Great
Simply put, this is the greatest chronicle of civilization… anywhere. A visit here is like taking a long hike through Encyclopedia Britannica National Park. The
The Tower has served as a castle in wartime, a king’s residence in peacetime, and, most notoriously, as the prison and execution site of rebels.
The greatest church in the English-speaking world, Westminster Abbey is where England’s kings and queens have been crowned and buried since 1066. Like a stony
Located at the prime meridian (0 degrees longitude), this observatory is famous as the point from which all time and distances on earth are measured.
Displaying an unsurpassed collection of European paintings from 1250 to 1900 – including works by Leonardo, Botticelli, Velazquez, Rembrandt, Turner ,Van Gogh, and the Impressionists
Just about every visitor to London strolls along historic Whitehall from Big Ben to Trafalgar Square. Using Rick Steves guided walk, we’ll try to give
On our first night in London, we thought we would take it easy on the tourist stuff. So we checked into our home base for
We departed York by train – a first experience for Jackie. It was a day of first’s for Jackie – a train, a black cab,