The hotel in which I was staying for the first month here was the venue for a beautiful sight… A seniors’ group were having their Christmas party, including a visit from Santa Claus! – but this was weeks before Christmas..?
I was speaking with one of the ladies and she said this way, they can have their own Christmas celebration with their friends, leaving them available to focus on their own families afterward.
Merry Christmas, everyone…
~ Bella
After a rather 'interesting' arrival experience at Heathrow (let's just say, I felt like I had arrived in an entirely different country, with a different language, and different culture - certainly not England... oh, well...), I then spent two nights at the the stunning Manor Elstree. The Manor (formerly known…
My dear friend, Alec, and I headed off to one of the (many) old pubs in the area. In this case, a smugglers' pub dating to 1540! To put that a little more into perspective, that's the year King Henry VIII died! ...and this (below) is the sign for the…