Boaton Billy’s is long gone and I’ve heard that The Smokin’ Tuna now resides in this building.

 

Joal Rush | Key West Bar Tour | Smokin’ Tuna Saloon

 

 

River Walk:  Much of the north bank of the Thames can now be accessed by the public.  The Riverside Walk provides a splendid and tourist free counterpart to the more popular South Bank.

A Stroll Along London’s North Bank

 

 

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Tintagel Old Post Office, Cornwall.

 

When is a Post Office NOT a post office?

 

As you all know If you’ve been keeping me company—is that I love Tintagel.  If you haven’t read about my trip to the UK go back to June 2016 (if you go to mid May 2016 you’ll see my two weeks in places like London, York, Nottingham and Edinburgh and then my friend going home and me going to Tintagel on my own for a month so you might find some of it interesting.

 

But today I just want you to explore and learn about a Post Office that once was but is really so much more.

 

This building is on Tintagel’s main Street and tourist area and was acquired by  the National Trust in 1903.  But that was so little of it’s life since it was built in the 14th c—and became a Post office after Sir Rowland Hill’s introduction of Penny Postage and an improvement of services to places like Tintagel that sets upon the northern Cornish Coast.

 

So obviously it was something else so here’s the  the story—It was originally a small manor house–and is one of the very few of these that have survived the years.  It has a typical set up for these late medieval manor house with a central single story hall open to the roof and around this are smaller rooms and a kitchen with bedrooms built on a second level which are limited usually to just one room above each so there is no full 2nd story—these rooms are more like lofts.

 

The post office came along in the 19th century as a rented room in the house.  By the late 1800’s the town had started to become a tourist destination–which is when Tennyson wrote a poem about King Arthur which raised visitor’s interest.

 

 

By the late 1800’s the house was sold for redevelopment and the post office found a new home.   In 1995 it was bought at auction by some artists for $300 pounds and an agreement that they would preserve it—and by 1903 the National Trust bought the restored building for $200 pounds

 

Today it is a museum with the rooms furnished with local furniture and the like.  They’ve even reproduced the Victorian post office complete with a Victorian village post office outside (1857).  It also holds a collection of unique historical needle point.

 

Places to see in ( Tintagel – UK )

 

 

Moving to West Palm Beach

 

 

Filmed in Palm Beach County, what 1981 movie stared Katherine Turner as a wife trying to have her rich husband, played by Richard Crenna, murdered.?

A.  Body Heat.

 

West Palm Beach | On The Town in The Palm Beaches

 

 

 

     High:  $50,000                                    Low:  $15,000 –  $20,000

 

Gladstone’s Land:  Once the home of a prosperous merchant, in the 17th century.  It is authentically decorated and furnished to evoke Edinburgh’s Old Town nearly 400 years ago.  Remarkable painted ceilings and reconstructed shop booth.

 

 

Exclusive look inside Gladstones land | The Royal Mile

 

 

 

 

So how is everybody doing—hope you’re still holding onto your sanity—however much or little you have  I continue watch movies that I record on TV—Sherlock Holmes (the B&W with Rathbone being my absolute favorite)

 

Sherlock Holmes (1939 film series)

 

 

I like the PBS ones too and most of the movies

check this out—had no idea there were so many:

 

All Sherlock Holmes Movies and Series

 

 

I have read several but not all the books as you can see here they go on after Doyle ceased to write:

 

Canon of Sherlock Holmes

 

 

There even a series featuring a young lady he taught to be a detective becomes his wife

 

Russell & Holmes

 

 

There’s bunches more—just google Sherlock

 

 

 

 

Exploring Myakka River State Park | Sarasota, FL

 

Myakka River State Park is one of the largest parks in Florida with an abundance of wildlife and miles of bike roads and waterways.  Myakka Lake is especially good for fishing.  The Main Camping area is situated near the store, boat ramp.  There is also a canoe and bike rental as well as picnic area.  It is 17 miles east of Sarasota off of Hwy 72.

 

Birds of Myakka River State Park

 

 

Stewart Beach -Galveston TX may2016

 

 

Galveston Beaches:  Stewart Beach–best family beach.  Pavilion has showers, snack bar, gift shop, playground and volleyball.  Parking fee.   A Public Beach with restrooms and shower facilities is available at the State Park.  Entrance fee per person 13 year and older

 

Galveston Island State Park – Part 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Healthy Sleep Tips

 

Foods That May Help You Sleep

 

Chlorophyll-rich foods–i.e. green leafy vegetables

Micro algae–think spirulina

Whole grain–chose from whole wheat, brown rice, oats—you get the idea

Fruits example bananas, apples and pears

Turkey and fish—but at least 3 hrs before bedtime

Chamomile tea or warm milk about an hour and a half before bedtime (which should be true with any liquid)

Mushrooms

Lettuces

Nuts and seeds like almonds, peanuts, flax seeds–chia seeds especially known for their sedative effects

Honey

 

Better sleep with a partner

 

 

10 Best Places To Visit On A Welsh Roadtrip

 

 

Lleu:  Welsh god, warrior of the shinning light, master of all crafts and skills.  Similar to the Roman’s Mercury,

 

 

Highlights of The Coastal Way

 

 

 

 

 

Moving to Deltona, FL? Check out Enterprise, FL on Lake Monroe

 

 

Enterprise Florida

Enterprise in case you don’t recognize the name (and lots of people don’t) is a small town on Lake Monroe in Central Florida.

 

 

The first settler here was Major C. Taylor along with his wife Polly (Polly died of typhus about 1841 and her grave can still be found in a current house in the area) and daughter, and he was a slave holder,   in 1841 when the closest European settlement was St. Augustine.

 

 

Originally named Fountain Place and then Enterprize (yes the z is correct for the original spelling).  Taylor by this time operated a sawmill in the town and a steam boat on the St. Johns River.  He  continued to mourn his wife, eventually relocating to Texas for a few years and then moved on to California where he lost his own life when a boat he was operating went down in a storm.

 

 East Central Regional Rail Trail 

 

While Enterprise grew into a thriving town due to it’s location on Lake Monroe.

 

 

Spring To Spring Trail South

 

 

The town continued to grow as it hosted thousands of travelers each year as it was headquarters for two major figures in Florida steam boating:  Jacob BrocK and Count Fredrick DeBary.  

 

 

Brock started his line in 1852 with a streamer called the Darlington which he used to make scheduled trips on the St. Johns.   Later his large side-wheeler boat that ran from Jacksonville to Enterprise (and if they wished to go further  on the river, to hunt and fish they could board smaller boats here as well) a dominant factor on shipping on the St. Johns until 1876 .  During this time Green Sulfur Springs was a popular place reached by travelers that went overland from Enterprise  to this destination where they partook of the water and inhaled the healing scent of the long leaf pine.   Brock was also responsible for the Brock (what else?) Hotel in the early 1850s, for his passengers.

 

 

When the war came to Florida the Union’s vessels raided locations primarily on the coast but making occasional trip on the St. Johns River to Enterprise, destroying random property along the way.

 

 

The town was said to be the Key to Volusia County’s  development.  By 1876 the city was one of America’s leading tourist’s attraction and Volusia County’s first county seat.  it had  a 2 1/2 story hotel with a capacity of 50 gust at a time as well as many store.  Invalids came for the climate and sportsmen to fish and hunt.

 

 

But what goes up may soon come down and by  1887 it had started it’s decline with Sanford and Deland growth and by 1889 Deland had replaced Enterprise as the county seat of Volusia (Sanford would become the county seat of a new county Seminole but that’s a whole other story.)

 

 

As late as  the mid–1980’s the town still had its own post office (though at that time it was just a room in the post mistress’ house)

 

 

It seems that the end of the River Boat Era was the end of the town, with little remaining except a an intersection with a cemetery on Enterprise road

and an Episcopal Chapel which dates back to the hey days of the town  as well as the Florida United Methodist Children’s Home was established in Enterprise in 1908 as the Florida Methodist Orphanage.  The town does not even have a zip code.

 

 

Enterprise Evergreen Cemetery

 

 

 

 

 

The Life and Times of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

 

 

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ State Historic Site:  The site has been officially listed on the National Register of Historic Sites since 1970.  It is a microcosm of Florida farmland, marshland and succeeding hammock and represents a history, culture and architecture that typifies a rural Florida that has all but vanished.

 

 

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ Cross Creek Christmas 2020

 

 

To watch a video, of clothes deals just click here For the Rich Hippie Boutique

 

 

 

Marlborough White Horse

 

Marlborough White Horse–1804:  Cut by the boys of a school in Marborough kept y a Mr. Greasley (This was before the founation of Marlborough College).  It was designed and pegged out by one of the boys–William Canning of the Manor House, Ogbourne St. George.  Best view–walk from College Memorial Hall (on A4 Bath road) along footpath inside the hedge, look left for the ‘horse’.  Alternatively–from A345 Pewsey road turn off at the Citroen Garage to walk along Granham Close, then hard footpath through 2 fields.  In the 3r field near tennis courts look left.

 

The Marlborough or Preshute white horse

 

 

 

Why Pocahontas May Not Have Rescued John Smith After All

 

Looking for Real History in a land of Make Believe

 

Oh looking at History items that may interest you on TV—-but I mean the real thing not the Fictional Take on it.—

 

 

First there’s several offerings from the Smithsonian Channel:

 

First there’ Pocahontas Beyond the Myth and gives you a picture entirely and I mean entirely different than we were told in school which was greatly defined previously by our beliefs of Native Americans and beyond —well worth a watch.

 

 

Far from Virginia but again dealing with woman (well really women) This Smithsonian offering is Secret Sites series:  Petra –—and this give a whole history of the site including that this places was thought to be governed entirely by woman….something a bit different.

 

 

 

There’s also some excellent PBS offerings :

 

Then there’s Agatha Christie’s England:  An exploration of her life and the places she frequented in the UK and how these influenced her fiction—if your a fan of Agatha like me this is a must

 

 

Finally one on the Military History Channel

 

Here we go to the Civil War and look at two very different men–

Lee and Grant.

You get profiles of the two men’s very different life styles and how they led their armies and changed history in so doing—-Another enjoyable and informative time.

 

 

7 Reasons Ulysses S. Grant Was One of America’s Most Brilliant Military Leaders

 

 

 

 

 

A guide to Batheaston UK