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Essential Travel Products

We are always refining our travel ‘kit’ and have tried a lot of different products, but are always trying to overcome some travel inconvenience, or comfort issue.

This list of See Love Fly’s 2023 Travel Essentials includes some old favorites, and some new surprises tried out on a recent trip to Scandinavia.  

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Perfect 7-Day Itinerary: Cotswold’s with a splash of city.

It’s hard to choose poorly in the Cotswold’s – the whole area is completely charming and each little town offers something remarkable.

Some towns to look at: Asthall, Snowshill, Broadway, Bourton-on-the-Water, Lower Slaughter, Upper Slaughter, Painswick, Burford, Castle Combe and Stow-on-the-Wold are all great choices for lodging and basecamp.

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Going through Customs for the first time - what to expect

“Customs” is short hand for process of legally allowing you entry into another country. If you need a passport to visit the country, you will be going through Customs. This is usually another check point in the airport/cruise ship/border crossing station process. If you’ve gone through a TSA security check point as part of air travel in the US, the Customs process it will be very similar.

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Reflections on traveling with teens

Our 16-year-old teen daughter learned a lot – not just about the places and the people we visited, but little things that make life more functional like how to navigate putting your passport somewhere you can reach it quickly, or paying attention to addresses and train numbers so you know what’s happening and can get around.

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Sudeley Castle and the omnipresent history of Britain

We drove out to Sudeley Castle via a series of small roads that wound us through dozens of small villages and rolling farm lands bordered by stone fences and hedgerows. It was incredibly picturesque! At every turn we expected to see Emma and Mr. Knightly walking across the pastures.

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Gloucester Cathedral

As I was standing in the Cloisters at Gloucester Cathedral with my mouth hanging open, another visitor popped out of a side entrance and paused – his mouth hanging open just as wide as mine. He met my eye, grinned and said, “Well, my gob has totally been smacked!”

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The British Museum

Room after room blew me away. Huge artifacts filled huge, seemingly endless, spaces. After many surprises startling me in ever room I started wondering if the next room would contain the Lost Tribe of Isreal, the UFO from the Roswell crash site, and maybe Napoleon’s mummified remains.

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Kennet Long Barrow and the tomb dust

There was a track that lead up the hill to a 5000 year old tomb that had contained 36 bodies. At some point up the track our teenaged daughter asked in a slightly sarcastic and dry tone, “Why are we walking up this hill to see a mound of dirt?”

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Visiting Avebury Henge and prehistoric musings

If you stood in the midst of the boulevard of stones on the crest overlooking the approach to the great nested circles of stones sitting in a huge earthworks henge and looked north you’d spot the enormous Uffington White Horse decorating the distant hillside. If you looked to the south you’d see the Silbury Hill – one of the tallest man-made hills.

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The Cotswolds, seriously charming!

The drive into The Cotswolds, through little tiny villages such as Birdlip, the Slough, and Stow were stunning! Perfect forests, old rustic stone buildings, handmade fences, and beautiful gardens were everywhere!

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