outside Sophie's house

Surprise birthday trip

---

November 4th 2011
It will soon be Lynda's 60th birthday - shh, don't tell the world. And she really wanted to be taken to Paris! So I turned up last Thursday morning (after David had told her to be ready for a taxi to a health farm) and carried her off to Leeds for 2 days as a surprise. We stayed with Sophie, and saw Opera North's Ruddigore, which is not really opera, but Gilbert and sullivan. It was a ... read more

Europe » United Kingdom » Wales » Powys » Welshpool

---

Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more