It was a long way to come for a tour of our 400. Don & Dawn traveled here with their T@B-CSS from Vancouver BC to visit family here in Sylva. They came by today to put some faces with our names and to see our new big little trailer. We’ve been communicating by email and phone calls for a while so it was fun to be able to do some T@B talking in person. Hopefully they will get to visit nüCamp in Sugarcreek on their way home!
The purpose of our trek to Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham in the southwest of London was to see a recently recovered bronze bust of the Emperor Caligula but we discovered so much more in the recently restored 18th Century “little Gothic castle” built by Horace Walpole.
London’s Imperial War Museum in Southwark founded even as the First World War raged offers insights into the myriad costs of the wars of the 20th and 21st Centuries. It was a most disquieting but valuable reminder of the myriad costs of war.
The two of us have long been fascinated with the history of canals and their role in the history of transportation, industrialization, and more recently recreation. This stay in London has given us new opportunities to explore and learn more about how canals contributed to the growth of this great city and how they are being used and preserved today.
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