Archive for December, 2011

Southwest England part III

Part 3: Odds and ends in the last week In the last section we had just left Cornwall, but that doesn’t mean our coastal journey was finished! We continued along the coastline through southern Devon and into Dorset, which I think of as more or less equivalent to New Hampshire. The main similarity is entirely […]

SouthWest England part II

Part 2: Cornwall ice cream home-stay and Cornish coastal driving We continued our trip into Cornwall, the farthest south west corner of England. You can probably figure out for yourself that according my my New England analogy, Cornwall is Maine–coastal villages, funny accents, pasties instead of lobsters, and a lot of nothing inland. We began […]

Overdue England Sept. 2011

Most of you probably were following my summer biostation blog: umbsgarden.wordpress.com, so you probably know I spent the summer working up at the U of M biostation in Pellston Michigan, growing food and inspiring people to eat kohlrabi, enjoy weeding, and the like. But that’s another story from another website. Following the summer session up […]