Great Gaertner UK Road Trip: London

The iconic,

the landmarks,

the shopping,

the surprise royal sighting,

and the travel buddies.

London was like a dream, and a perfect ending to our 

crazy, amazing, eye-opening, spiritual, educational, adventuresome,

super-fun month in the UK

Great Gaertner UK Road Trip: Southern England

Miles and miles of beautiful yellow flowers.

roaming the dappled light of ancient church ruins

and being dwarfed by the grandeur

enjoying the perfectly picturesque landscapes, rivers, and cottages of the Cotswolds

exploring Roman baths in, well...

Bath

 

then relaxing at a swanky limestone boutique b&b

standing in complete awe at Stonehenge,

in spite of the freezing cold

admiring the pomp and splendor of Windsor

and stopping Jon just in time from "watering the bugs" 

(aka urinating on the grass) in the Queen's rose garden.

oi vey.

Great Gaertner UK Road Trip: Wales

Tea and scones in an adorable little tea house

with a name we still can't pronounce.

A day at a living farm where we bottle-fed lambs,

held baby bunnies, and brand-new lambs, and goat kids.

We Gaertners were in baby animal heaven. 

The woman running the farm ask Jonathan to help her 

rescue a lamb that was stuck in the fence.

We visited an oceanside mediaeval castle.

We drove along the mountains, stone fences, and lush farms of the Welsh countryside,

Got lost again, but finally found this view after two hours of 

one-way roads winding along steep drop-offs... But it was worth it!

.

Wales, you're beautiful and charming and we love you (even though you 

don't believe in vowels and we can't say the name of any place we saw).

Great Gaertner UK Road Trip: The Highlands

Inverness.

Loch Ness.

watching for Nessie.

 ruins of Urquhart.

highland cows.

curious sheep.

majestic mountains and vistas.

vegetarian haggis.