At some point last year I casually asked my cousin Joanne if she wanted to come over to England with me sometime. She immediately said yes much to my delight and we began several months of plotting and planning. We share the same grandparents (our mothers were sisters) who immigrated to Canada in the early 20th century from Gloucestershire, England. Just the other night we were happily exchanging "grandma stories" of her life both here in England and in Canada. As teenagers and young adults we both confessed to rolling our eyes (though not that she could see!) when our much loved grandma started on a story we had heard many times but of course now we would love to be able to sit down with her and hear those stories all over again. We narrowed our destinations down to visiting our cousins in Yorkshire, Edinburgh, the Lake District, North Wales and London. I was going to write these posts as week one, two etc. but have decided to concentrate on one area at a time. So h
Tales of travel from a seventy plus girl at heart from the prairies of Canada.