In October 2025 my wife and I travelled to Britain to attend a two week tour with Rick Steves Europe (RSE). We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. A great itinerary with a good group of fellow travelers and a superb guide (thank you Robert!). While I very much enjoy the DIY travels I have arranged, it is nice to have someone else worry about itinerary and logistics! All I had to do was arrange to travel into Heathrow then make our way to Bath. On the back end, it was a short walk to the Tube from our London hotel, and 45 minutes later we were back at Heathrow for an uneventful flight home. The map below shows the primary stops and the number of nights stayed at each location. Highlights for me were Hadrian's Wall and York. I've always been interested in the history of the Roman Britain period as well as the Viking invasion period and those two locations were a wonder to behold. Other key sites for me were Keswick in the Lake District and the Cotswolds. Both were beautiful! At some point I'll go back to England, rent a car and head back up to the north to spend more time exploring. This tour was our fourth RSE tour and we are very much looking forward to our fifth when we return to France in the spring of 2026.
Camera kit for the trip included the M10R and 21mm / 35mm / 90mm lenses. The majority of images were captured with the 35mm Summicron. Cathedral interiors were the purview of the 21mm Color-Skopar. The 90mm APO-Skopar saw a bit of use but spent most of the trip in the camera bag. My wife carried the Leica D-Lux 8 I purchased earlier in the year. I'll have more to say about it in a later post but the elevator speech is it is a Micro 4/3, point and shoot which hosts a 24-75mm equivalent lens. I bought it as a pocket camera and it performed superbly. Between the Ireland trip in April and this trip to Britain it has captured nearly 1,200 images. Again, more later on this amazing camera.
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