Joel's Journeys & Jaunts

I should clarify my ambiguous headline. It was raining outside in London this morning, not in the Natural History Museum. I went to the Natural...

The title makes it sound like I spent a lot of time in Westminster, right? I did. Today, I restricted myself to sights within a...

“Joel, whatever possessed you to visit a garden museum,” you likely asked upon seeing the title. “That sounds boring.“ You’re obviously not a regular reader...

Why did I title this “A Possibly Quirky London Visit?” That’s a fabulous question. I wish you hadn’t asked it. Now I have to fabricate...

At the end of my previous post, I said I had lunch in the café in Salisbury Cathedral for a reason other than just the...

Salisbury Museum, which I visited first this morning, was a very pleasant surprise for me. It is probably much less of a surprise for a...

This was a relaxed afternoon, during which I took in a couple of sights and generally wandered around. Arundells, mentioned in this post’s headline, wasn’t...

If I had a bucket list, I could now cross Stonehenge off it. Maybe I should create one. But I worry that if I create...

I came to Salisbury for the steaks. That was a joke. Salisbury steaks were created by an American named Salisbury. As far as I know,...

Still on my day trip to Bath from Bristol, after lunch I visited the Herschel Museum of Astronomy and then wandered around Bath some more....