This Side of the Pond

I don’t wish to brag, but in just over two weeks I will be indulging in the purest form of Americana. For the first time in my life, I will do something I never envisioned as a possibility: walk through the gates of Disneyland.

You may be thinking I’m far too old to spend a weekend with Mickey and Pluto, but you would be wrong. I am as eager to encounter Captain Jack Sparrow and his friends as I would have been at the age of seven.

We chose the most magical time of the year to visit the most magical place on earth. This has been an adventure long in the planning (more than two years, pa...