slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Category: UNESCO World Heritage sites
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On Thursday morning, we slept late and then took a taxi to our next hotel, the Apex Waterloo Place. That night we would meet our tour manager and group, have dinner together, and decide whether Sandy was up for doing the tour. After leaving our luggage, we went to the corner cafe for brunch, where…
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Wednesday was mostly a rest day. We both slept a lot and I slipped out around mid-day to let Sandy sleep and explore a little bit. I went downstairs to the coffee shop where I explained what was going on with us to the manager (there was a lot of blood in the room), and…
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On Saturday morning, the crowds were lining up at the Roman Baths and the Abbey. It was a bank holiday. We decided to skip seeing the Baths. At Square Grill House, I had smoked salmon benedict, and Susan and Lisa had a full English breakfast. I think that was the only time any of us…
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We had learned our lesson about taxis in Cornwall and booked Annie’s Taxi ahead of time to take us back to the train station at Bodmin Parkway. I mean, yes, a bus was an option back and forth to Port Isaac, but it was a two hour ride compared to a 30 minute ride in…
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Our real wedding anniversary – we were married 36 years ago on this day. This was our last day in Mexico, so we made the most of it by walking around the Centro Historico and shopping. First we had lunch at Cafe de la Parroquia. Then, as we sat people watching in the Jardin Allende,…
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We began Saturday with a slow walk uphill on this street. So many shops and galleries were open now. One of the shops we visited was a print shop with many fine relief prints and artist books for sale. We talked to the employee there and her brother for a long time, and I laid…
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Finally, the streets came alive for the weekend. Suddenly there were lots of doors opened into sweet little shops and cafes. We began to get more familiar with our surroundings. I loved taking photos of doors. I may have to weave some doors soon, and I’ll do a post with only door photos. We walked…
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We decided to begin using Uber rides to get uphill to the center of town and walking back down to the hotel. This worked really well in Mexico, as compared to our Uber tribulations in Portugal last year. We never had a problem. First we found lunch at a pretty little courtyard cafe named Marluz.…
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^This is the beautiful Templo de la Merced that we could see from the roof of our hotel. I wish that we had gone in when we heard the mass on Sunday as we walked by, because from the photos I’ve seen, the interior is gorgeous. I started to crop the electric lines from the…
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^I think there is a garden behind these doors. We would find that there were often beautiful surprises within plain outside facades. The sign translates to “The Snails” but I don’t know what C.S.O.A means. I knew that there would not be much open on Monday, so I ordered breakfast at our hotel, which our…
slowly she turned 