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Travel Tuesday….England bound with twins!

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We’re travelling to England and Scotland this week!

My husband and I and our five year old twins are flying out this week to England. We’ll be staying in Ilkley and doing day trips from there. My in-laws are living there right now and we’re going to spend some time with them. This is a fantastic opportunity to travel with the kids without a huge room and board expense.

I also committed myself to a 60 posts in 60 days challenge through the Village Green Network (a fabulous blogging network I belong to). I’m not sure what I am thinking! I think the next three weeks of posts are going to be travel related or they’ll at least have a British theme!

The above photo was taken in Edinburgh by Bert Kaufmann. Edinburgh, Scotland is on my list of favorite places that I’ve traveled to. My husband and I went together back in college (around 1998) and vowed to visit again. I didn’t really expect it to take this long but here we are in 2013 heading to Edinburgh for a 3 day getaway together while my in-laws party with the kids!

I’m hoping to upload some pics and let you know what I learn on our journey! I’m hoping to find some great Real Food and neat ideas to apply to our lives when we get back!

Are there any of you living in England right now? What do you love about it? What do you recommend as “must see” places?

Bon Voyage!

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