In the late summer of 2011, I took a 14 day trip to the UK with my wife Stacey, her sister Stephanie, and my friend Josh. I did the “writer” thing and kept a travel journal….but with a pen and paper. After a very slow and lazy process, I’ve finally transcribed it, cleaned it up a bit and improved it from my manuscript/rough copy.

While far from original, I wanted to have a digital copy of it to share with friends and family, and this site sorta serves as a good place to host it. I’m certainly not the first person to do such a trip nor am I the most interesting, but I have made it as fun as possible (plus there’s fun really bad illustrations). So just navigate on the chapters below to start reading…or if you have an e-reader , I’m working on making an attachment to put on here..so stay tuned!

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“A Fortnight In Britain”

Written & Illustrated by Brad Bagby

Illustrations colored by Stacey Bagby

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Table of Contents

Prologue——————————————————————————3

PART I: ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE

Day 0: The Night Before …………………………………………5

Day 1: Somewhere Beyond The Sea (The Journey Begins)……………..6

Day 2: The Healing Waters of Bath …………………………..10

Day 3: The Myth and Magic of Glastonbury…………..13

Day 4: Keswick: It’s a Dog’s town……………………..17

Day 5: Hiking, Boating and Badgers…………….19

PART II: SCOTLAND

Day 6: The Road to Scotland…………..24

Day 7: Castles and Monsters……………27

Day 8: Edinburgh (say it like “Edin-Brah!!”)……… 31

Day 9: When in Scotland; .Eat Haggis!! (and Go On Ghost Tours)…………36

PART III: RETURN TO ENGLAND

Day 10: York (Not The Peppermint Patty Kind)…………….41

Day 11: London Calling…………………..46

Day 12: London Site-seeing 101……………..50

Day 13: Take Them To The Tower!!……………53

Day 14: Dumplings and Palaces…………..57

Day 15: There and Back Again; A “Brad-bo”Tale………….. 60