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Thursday, 23 Jun 2011 | Views [350]
Wednesday 15 th – Wednesday 22 nd
June - UK
Pottering around the UK
Here we are back in the UK, enjoying the northern summer solstice
with daylight hours that go for 16 hours from 4.45.34am until 9.20.26pm
(…approximately!).... Read more >
Wednesday, 22 Jun 2011 | Photo Gallery
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Monday, 16 May 2011 | Views [357]
Wednesday 11 th May
2011
From Dover to Calais then on to Cousin
David’s home near Paris.
After collecting our new (7yo old) car yesterday we had an early
start for Dover to catch the 12.40pm ferry.
After a quick sortie ... Read more >
Monday, 16 May 2011 | Photo Gallery
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Tuesday, 10 May 2011 | Views [1351]
8 th May 2011
Wicken Fen and Anglesey Abbey,
Cambridgeshire – National
Trust properties
Wicken Fen – a wetland preserved by the National Trust since
1899. A fen is a marsh fed by groundwater (usually alkaline). This ... Read more >
Tuesday, 10 May 2011 | Photo Gallery
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7 th May 2011
Belton House, Lincolnshire - National Trust mansion, which also featured in the BBC
series of “Pride and Prejudice” as the home of Lady Catherine de Burgh and a
scene whereby the wonderful Mr Darcy wrote to ... Read more >
Tuesday, 10 May 2011 | Photo Gallery
Former home of Baron Brownlow
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Tuesday, 10 May 2011 | Views [342]
2 nd to 5 th
May 2011
Trip to Wales
We scooted off to Wales to see friends we’ve met in Africa who
coincidentally live only 12km apart!
Firstly a friend we met in Lusaka who lives at Grosmont near Abergevenny
in Wales ... Read more >
Tuesday, 10 May 2011 | Photo Gallery
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Tuesday, 10 May 2011 | Views [4326]
1 st May 2011
Sir Isaac Newton’s home,
Woolsthorpe Manor, Lincolnshire
We came to Europe to see and feel history and that’s exactly
what we’re getting. Our National Trust
memberships have opened a door to the most exquisite ... Read more >
Tuesday, 10 May 2011 | Photo Gallery
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30 th April 2011
Buying a car
Well with about as much luck as was had in ordering a caravan,
we went to one car place and in one afternoon found what we wanted and
needed….a car to pull Kevin across the roads of Europe! ... Read more >
Tuesday, 10 May 2011 | Views [452]
29 th April 2011
The Royal Wedding
Well where does one start???
Armed with ponchos (again), camera and our faithful aussie hats
we took the train to St Pancras, then the tube to Victoria station, as
Westminster was ... Read more >
Tuesday, 10 May 2011 | Photo Gallery
29th April - Prince William & Kate
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Tuesday, 10 May 2011 | Views [475]
24 th April 2011 Easter Sunday
A visit to Ickworth House, Bury
St Edmunds, Suffolk
At Emma and Sam’s suggestion we all took off for a “jaunt”, as
they say, to a stately Georgian Italianate National Trust mansion in Suffolk.... Read more >
Tuesday, 10 May 2011 | Views [238]
23 rd April 2011
Rushden - The purchase of a caravan (aka “Kevin”) – our
“starship galactica” for the forthcoming adventure through Europe.
Well, what can we say…it happened in one afternoon! After much tooth gnashing ... Read more >
Tuesday, 10 May 2011 | Views [845]
22 nd April 2011
Heathrow then Rushden, UK
5.30am arrival at Heathrow on Good Friday…hardly a crowd and no
one there except for Sam & Emma, our good old friends we’d met in
Oz!!!! What a welcome – thanks guys for
collecting ... Read more >
Tuesday, 10 May 2011 | Photo Gallery
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