My solo journey of the heart and World
The area in Manchester where my hostel was located is called Northern Quarter. Apparently, no one in the Northern Quarter had dirty clothes because the closest laundromat was a total of 20 minutes on a bus and 20 minutes walking. But as I mentioned in a previous post, I had no clean underwear and I I had …
I left Liverpool on Sunday and had a short train ride to Manchester. I had booked a hostel for 4 nights. The first two nights were in a bunk bed in a female dorm room and the last two nights, I reserved a private room. This was my first time staying at this brand of hostel called Selina. I …
I visited the Liverpool Cathedral and for a church that is more than 100 years old, it was quite progressive in its offerings. Inside the church, in addition to the traditional stained glass, memorial stones and alter, there was a café and art installations and interactive nooks and crannies. You could tell they were trying to create …
I made it to the ferry terminal on the Dublin side in plenty of time. It was a different terminal than the one my aunt and I had used before because I was taking a different ferry line. This boat was even bigger than the previous ferry. I wish this is the one that we had to figure …
Sally kept driving while I navigated to our next location called Arbor Low, which was an ancient stone circle in a farmer’s field. The route took us through the rural areas, so rural we even had a cow crossing that stopped traffic for a few minutes. As we pulled into the driveway of the farm, we noticed …
On the day of our departure from Lincoln, UK, we headed out and planned to take our sweet time meandering our way back to Holyhead in Wales and the ferry terminal to get back to Dublin. We planned on stopping at some site-seeing locations along the way. I had done a little research with the maps and …
On Saturday, I decided to do the recommended walk down along the Brayford river to a riverside inn called The Pyewipe Inn. It was recommended both for the walk and the pub. It was raining but not pouring and I decided to do the walk anyway. I donned my waterproof sneakers and raincoat, grabbed my umbrella and walked …
After getting our rental car on the Wales side, we made the drive to Lincoln switching out drivers halfway because my lack of sleep was catching up to me. We made it to Lincoln and found the very narrow parking area and then found our apartment for the week. It was an older townhome type of place …
I had the opportunity to again travel with my aunt for the world championship for dog agility, this time to England. Her dog Maverick qualified and would be running again for team USA. And again, my aunt offered me my ticket overseas if I helped arrange the travel and help her navigate the different locations for accommodations …
I arrived at the Madrid airport and took a left out of the gate when I should have taken a right apparently and ended up making the very long way around to get to the baggage claim. Not only did I have to take the long way, I had to sneak in a door that was …