It's sometimes hard to believe, but on May 27, Brian and I celebrated five wonderful years of being married. This was the milestone that we've always talked about, and it always seemed so far away. Our initial plan was always to go back to Cozumel, Mexico, where we honeymooned, but obviously our life has changed a bit and that wasn't really feasible from the UK! We still of course wanted to celebrate though and because our passports were unavailable for our visa renewals, we opted to stay in-country and do an 8-day road trip throughout England (definite benefit of being married on Memorial Day weekend is that you always know you'll get good vacation days around your anniversary!) =)
Brian planned a beautiful trip for us that appealed to both of our interests - history/adventure/sightseeing for him and total relaxation for me. =) Our journey started with some coastal towns along the Jurassic Coast of England. In each little town, we stayed in a beautiful B&B, which I've now officially decided I ALWAYS prefer to any hotel (more to come on this in a later post).
As part of the first "adventure" part of the trip, we toured two British war ships, including the HMS Victory, which was launched in the 1700s. This is the ship where Lord Admiral Nelson passed away too so it has a lot of historical significance. We also toured the HMS Warrior from the 1800s which was beautiful as well.
The next day, we continued the adventure by visiting Portchester Castle, a medieval castle along the coast. Then it was on to Salisbury Cathedral, where we took an AMAZING tour that led us up hundreds of steps to the top where we could overlook the town. Salisbury Cathedral has the tallest church spire in the UK, and we were lucky to have such a beautiful day to see it.
After this, we did some hiking along a coastal beach and then made our way to Newquay to begin the beach/relaxation part of our trip.
More on "my part" of the trip soon!
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