The Courtyard

The Old Dairy Barn - Our home away from home this week

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June 19th 2015
We had a hired car and driver take us from the hotel to our cottage rental. Five minutes into our drive Martin, our driver, asks "I just have to know your story. I'm trying to understand why American travelers would be staying in a hotel on the outskirts of Southampton (There wasn't much there besides our hotel and Peppa Pig Park, which was a 15 minute walk from the hotel.) and hiring a car to an ... read more

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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