Ann Silverthorn

Here’s the eighth post sharing our adventures in the British Isles and Ireland from September 29 to October 17, 2025, for genealogy, business, and sightseeing. Hope you enjoy it! Tuesday, October 7, 2025 We got up super early to board the bus that would take us from Scotland to Northern Ireland. I was intrigued by…

Here’s the seventh post sharing our adventures in the British Isles and Ireland from September 29 to October 17, 2025, for genealogy, business, and sightseeing. Hope you enjoy it! Monday, October 6, 2025 Breakfast was a madhouse at the Novotel Glasgow that morning. Tour Director John had told us that it might be less busy…

Here’s the sixth post sharing our adventures in the British Isles and Ireland from September 29 to October 17, 2025, for genealogy, business, and sightseeing. Hope you enjoy it! Sunday, October 5, 2025 I was very excited to visit the Lake District because, having been an English major, I spent some time studying the works…

Charming lane in York. I wonder how those umbrellas fared in the storm!

Here’s the fourth post sharing our adventures in the British Isles and Ireland from September 29 to October 17, 2025, for genealogy, business, and sightseeing. Hope you enjoy it! We rose early and were on the road by 7:30 to return our rental car at Heathrow. We had so much trouble getting out of the…

Here’s the third post sharing our adventures in the British Isles and Ireland from September 29 to October 17, 2025, for genealogy, business, and sightseeing. Hope you enjoy it!

(Sunday, March 23, 2025) by Ann Silverthorn with Jim DeDad Another hearty hotel breakfast this morning. I will really miss that. I won’t even tell you what I had every morning, but I sure don’t want to have my cholesterol checked for a while. We had some time to kill before our waka cultural tour…

(Saturday, March 22, 2025) by Ann Silverthorn with Jim DeDad If you’ll recall from Day 12, about half of the people in our tour group did not receive their luggage when we arrived in New Zealand. It had been taken off the plane in Melbourne, because the aircraft was too heavy. We were informed four…

(Friday, March 21, 2025) by Ann Silverthorn with Jim DeDad Bits ‘n Bobs from Cam (and Ann): Our first stop on the way to Mount. Cook was Arrowtown, a former gold-rush town. It has a charming main street with many cute boutiques and coffee shops. There was also a historic Chinese village and high-tech toilets.…

(Thursday, March 20, 2025) by Ann Silverthorn with Jim DeDad We had a free day until dinner time, so we decided to sleep until 7:00, but we were so tired, that we ended up staying in bed until 8:00. Apparently, a lot of our group decided to do the same. Later we realized that this…