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[London, UK, Jan 19, 2024] I had only done the British Museum on my 2014 visit, so I looked forward to visiting others this time. Housed in the former Bankside Power Station, Tate Modern is one of the largest museums of modern and contemporary art in the world. It moved to the closed power station in 2000 after six years of renovations. Admission is free, but we did buy tickets for the… Read More
]London, UK, Jan 15, 2024] On my last visit to London, I had walked by St Paul’s cathedral but since I was still a travel newbie, I didn’t go inside. I rectified this mistake on this trip! Entry was included with our London city pass. St Paul’s cathedral is Sir Christopher Wren’s masterpiece. He was commissioned to design the church after the Great Fire of London in 1666. There has been a… Read More
[London, UK, Jan 14, 2024] To make the most of our first few days in London, we purchased the London city pass in advance. We got the 72-hour one and pre-booked as many activities as we could with it. For today, we booked the Shard and a Top Sights 5-hour walking tour. If you’re unfamiliar with city passes, read more about them in this blog post! Visiting the Shard was quite touristy… Read More
[Mesa Verde National Park & Great Sand Dunes National Park, Sep 7 ,2023] I had really meant for Thursday to just be a travel day, but the cliff dwelling tour schedule at Mesa Verde had once again thrown a little wrench in my plans. There was one more cliff dwelling on the tour schedule, Square House. But it only ran once a day Thursday through Sunday. The limit was 10 people, which… Read More
[Mesa Verde National Park, Sep 5, 2023] People love to hate Gateway Arch National Park because it’s a man-made structure. But they forget several other parks preserve man-made structures, such as Dry Tortugas and Mesa Verde. For over 700 years, the Ancestral Pueblo people built thriving communities on the mesas and in the cliffs of Mesa Verde. The park protects what they built, including several spectacular cliff dwellings that are open to… Read More
