Adam Smith, often called the father of capitalism, is probably best known for for his book, The Wealth of Nations. However, The Wealth of Nations was not his first work. His first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments in many ways laid the ground work for his later, more famous publication. We were recently in […]
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We recently rented a narrowboat to travel England and Wales via the canals. We traversed the canals for two weeks and I have some fun stories to tell about our time. For those who don’t know how the locks work, here is a short summary: We open the paddles (the things that let the water
As many of you know we are in the UK for a few weeks, and are currently in Scotland. To be more specific we are in the city of Glasgow, the second largest city in Scotland, after the capital, Edinburgh. We were in Glasgow for only a couple of days, but we did a bunch
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We recently went to the WB studio’s Harry Potter exhibit where they filmed and prepared all 8 movies. On the bus ride there (the bus was a double decker bus!) we watched thrilling scenes from the movies and some upcoming movie trailers on the in-bus television as well as hearing about WB studios!!! When we
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For the next month the family is in England as the start of a four month Europe “holiday”. We were in Southampton for a few days, before moving on to London. One of the first things, and also one of my favorite things we did in London was visit the Tower of London. We actually
Our 62’ long and 6.5’ wide narrowboat is named Irene. Irene has 3 dedicated areas for sleeping, 1.5 baths, and a forward galley and sitting/eating area. The path through the boat causes us to wriggle passed each other every time we need to change rooms, it is only 18 inches wide! Irene has a single
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On our great cruise across the Atlantic we had dinner in the Britannia restaurant almost every night. The restaurant was different than others we had been to, which was to be expected because we were on a cruise. It was also quite a bit fancier than anything Jack and I had attended before. The first
For the past week the family has been on a transatlantic travel from New York to Southampton in the UK as the first part of our four month European trip. We sailed on the Queen Mary 2 for a week before arriving on the 25th of August. I really enjoyed the voyage, and so far
Oh my! We planned a few days in the cruise port of Southampton to get our footing and see Stonehenge but it offered SO much more. This area hardly makes it in the guidebooks. We had a fantastic guided city walk around the ancient walled city with history back to about year zero. Walked on,
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