Restless Prairie Girl

After two and a half weeks of traveling around the United Kingdom it was time to head down to London for our final week together.   After meeting up with my friend Pat at Euston station we headed off to Streatham Common Homestay, which is in South West London and our "home" in London for the next week.  The three of us headed off to the Rabbit Hole Pub which is about a fifteen-minute walk from the house.  My friends Loraine and Claudia would join us later for a meal.  Unfortunately, the chef was off that night so no food was being served - so we made do with a cold drink and met the resident cat.  The pub is done up in an Alice in Wonderland theme and is quite cute.  We then walked over to Tesco so Pat could get her chocolate for the trip then back on the bus to the Railway Pub where we met the others.  It is a five-minute walk from the house and really does have good food. I split a burger with Joanne much to the others' mirth. (I'm not known for my small appeti

Our last day in Wales we decided to go up the Great Orme.  We had such a  beautiful day for it.   What is the Great Orme you might ask?  It is a limestone headland on the North coast of Wales, just North West of Llandudno.  The name Orme (Y Gogarth in Welsh) comes from the Old Norse word for Sea Serpent.   It stands at 679 feet and there are four ways to ascend it: by on foot (no thank you), car, tramway or cable car.  We opted to take the tram up and back. It was just a short walk from the centre of town to the tram station.   The photo above was taken as we ascended over Llandudno.  Halfway up we had to get off the tram and get on another one to ascend to the summit.  Here is some of the gorse on the way up - so beautiful against the blue sky and blue sea.  The views going up weren't too bad!!  Once up there we wandered around and I took scads of photos. I mean, how could you not?  There was a shop, cafe and restauran