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Home Again!

Posted in Travel--Europe, family on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

OK, between tonight and last night, I finally got all the blogs I wrote along the way posted with pictures.  I’m glad I wrote as we went, made it lots easier, but it still takes a while to go through the pictures, format them, and upload everything decently.  And as soon as we got home, [...]

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Village of Lacock – Scenes from Pride & Prejudice

Posted in Travel--Europe, tagged , , , , on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

(Written 5/15/09)
Since we had been to Old Sarum the day before, I had browsed around for what to do in the afternoon.  We were all museum-ed out.  So we drove up to the Village of Lacock, a small medieval village with people living there, but traffic is diverted so it’s really quiet.  The whole village [...]

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Organ Music and the Magna Carta at Salisbury Cathedral

Posted in Travel--Europe, tagged , , , , on May 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »

We were at Salisbury Cathedral this morning (Friday the 15th), too early to have a tour or to climb the steps in the tower, but it was almost better.
We got there after the early morning service, but there’s another service for the students at the cathedral school at 9:00.  And the organist stays in between [...]

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Stonehenge and Old Sarum

Posted in Travel--Europe, tagged , , , , on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

(Written Friday, 5/15)
It was rather gray, threatening rain on Thursday, with heavy showers expected Friday, so we flipped our days around and left the Cathedral for Friday to be inside when it was wet.  We started the morning at the Salisbury Museum and had a great overview of Stonehenge.  And it would be a pretty [...]

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Glastonbury Abbey and Glastonbury Tor

Posted in Travel--Europe, tagged , , , , on May 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

(Written 5/14/09)
Glastonbury has so many legends wrapped around it it’s ridiculous.  And Glastonbury Tor is taller than it looks!
It was a steep climb up a long hill, with the remnants of a church on top.  I told Tim he ought to run to the top and he took off!  As my jaw dropped, Bryan said [...]

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Swinging Chains in Cardiff

Posted in Travel--Europe, tagged , , on May 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Oops–posted out of order.
(Written 5/11/09)
We stopped in Cardiff tonight (Monday) after about 2 hours of lovely scenery that was very much like Ireland, with a  commission from a friend in Indiana.
Rita is Welsh, and grew up in Cardiff until she left as a teenager (or so I remember her telling me when she found out [...]

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Roman Baths & Bizarre Comedy

Posted in Travel--Europe, tagged , , , , on May 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

(Written Tuesday, 5/12/09)
We’re exhausted already.
Crossed the Severn River on a l-o-n-g bridge over the estuary area where the tide meets the freshwater and churns up the mud.  Nice drive, only an hour from Cardiff, and we drove through the lovely Georgian areas of town to get to a car park.  Bath is gorgeous.  Most of [...]

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Ireland to England on the Ferry

Posted in Travel--Europe on May 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

(Written 5/11/09)
I think I’m going back to the old-fashioned way of travel.  At least when I’m not in a tearing hurry.
We planned a trip to southwest England with the boys before they start work this summer, and had the choice of flying into London and renting a car, or taking our car over on the [...]

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