tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91342051321564227872024-03-05T06:44:18.144-08:00Our Winding RoadTwo bad days led us on this adventure, we are glad your here to share it with us!TerriKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12388026130794631606noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9134205132156422787.post-53515529311280046702013-06-02T11:59:00.000-07:002013-06-02T11:59:03.893-07:00Home<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are all home, safe and sound but exhausted. It was a very long flight to the US for us, 10 hours, then another 3 hours home. I dont know if I could ever do a flight that long again, sitting still for that long even getting up once in awhile is not a pleasant experience. Even now, I'm still so tired I can't even think straight. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I want to thank everyone for joining in our incredible journey. I had fun posting and sharing pictures with you all. The blog has also helped us to keep track of what we did and where we went every day. It is all a blur to me and now I can use my blog to remind me of what we did and my thoughts of the day. Even the weather too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Love, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Terri, Allen, Debbi and Judy</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Dont be surprised if you see another post or two. </span>TerriKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12388026130794631606noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9134205132156422787.post-7480136596273084002013-05-31T15:21:00.000-07:002013-05-31T15:21:40.028-07:00London-Last DayToday was our last day of our vacation and we spent it in London. We caught the Heathrow Express to Paddington Station and from there we decided to pay for the Hop on/off bus tour since it stops at all the places we wanted to see. It was easier than the trying to figure out the bus routes and cheaper than a taxi. We wanted to see 2 of the museums we had missed on our first week in London, the National Gallery and The British Musuem. We also went to Fortnum & Mason, the department store where the Queen shops. Mom wanted to get some tea, this time we didn't lose it. By the time we got to the National Gallery it was sunny and beautiful, the warmest day we have had in England. Allen and I zipped through really fast, saw paintings by Ruebans, Van Goh(was not impressed), Monet and lots of others. I think I liked the one of a dragon eating a guys head the best (only because I love dragons and the guy probably deserved it). We went back outside to Trafalger Square to get pictures of the lions at the base of Nelson's Column. Allen really wanted to sit on one so I could get a picture. All he could do was sit by the side of one, they are too big. After the gallery, we went to the British Musuem. I could have spent all day there but we only had a couple hours. We were able to see all of the main objects; the Rosetta Stone, the Parthenon sculptures, the Lindow Man(a 2000 year old bog body). We were running out of time and had to catch a bus back to the train station. On the way we stopped at Buckingham Palace because I hadn't seen it the first week when I was sick. It was very crowded but we were able to get some pictures. We caught a train back, weary from our long day out. We talked of all the wonderful things we had seen and experienced, the things we missed seeing, but we are all very ready to head home. Mom is very tired and wants to be in her own home, Debbi is anxious to see Joe and her fur-babies, and we can't wait to see Jaden & Bray. Allen would have jumped ship and left a week ago if he could have.<br />
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<br />TerriKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12388026130794631606noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9134205132156422787.post-3272481559676100772013-05-30T13:35:00.002-07:002013-05-30T13:35:38.502-07:00LondonWe are back in London for our last 2 days then we will be on our way home. We are all ready to leave on Saturday, we are starting to get worn out. We arrived at our hotel this morning and we were so glad that it was the last time we would be dragging our suitcases on and off the train. They are getting so heavy.<br />
<b>Yesterday</b>-I didn't blog yesterday because we got in too late from Salisbury. When we left Bath in the morning it was just a little cloudy with some sunshine but the day ended up cold and rainy. We went to the Cathedral which of course was beautiful. It also had a copy of the Magna Carta (the british version of the Declaration of Independance) that dates from the early 1200's. Debbi and Allen also talked me into doing the Tower Tour. I told them I hated them by the first balcony. There were a little over 300 steps but that's not what bothered me. It was the heights that got to me. The balcony overlooking the Nave, the narrow stone steps with only a rope to hold on to, the open wooden spiral stair. When we got to the second one in the bell tower I couldn't go any further. I sat and waited for them and then we had to go back down. I almost kissed the ground when we were done. After the cathedral we got a taxi to Stonehenge. It's about 15 miles outside the town and what surprised us so much is that your driving out into the country and all of a sudden it's just there at the side of the road and there's only a 4 foot fence around it. We had to wait for about an hour before we could do the inner circle tour we had booked, so Allen and Debbi walked around the stones while Mom and I tried to stay dry. After the site had closed we were able to go in with security guard. It was surreal and awesome at the same time. It was one of the coolest things we have done this whole trip, to stand there in the middle of the stones that are so iconic of early Britain. Visiting the Cathedral and Castles have been amazing but Stonehenge was started in 2600bc. After a half hour of wondering through the stones in the rain and with the humming pagon priestess' we caught a train back to Bath.<br />
<b>Today</b>-after dropping our bags off, we went into London and rode the Tube to Nottinghill. We had fun trying to figure out which line to take and how to buy tickets. We walked Portabello Road, poking in and out of antique shops and tacky souvenir shops. We found the bookstore that is used in the movie Nottinghill.<br />
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I should add that Allen brought me cough drops and tissue because I have had a cold and he had a coke in his back pack, so as Debbi always says "all is golden".TerriKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12388026130794631606noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9134205132156422787.post-20716184164926564392013-05-28T12:16:00.000-07:002013-05-28T12:16:34.897-07:00Bath<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today started out gloomy and rainy. And ended gloomy and rainy. It was also one of those days where nothing went right. Mom stayed at the apartment and had a down day while Allen, Debbi and I took the train to visit the Cotswolds. Well, that's how the day was supposed to go. We have been very lucky on this trip in that everything has gone smoothly and we have had mostly perfect weather, so one bad day isn't going to ruin it. After almost 6 hours of wasted time on trains and buses we ended up back at the apartment. I was exhausted and took a nap, after resting a bit Debbi and Allen went to the Abbey and climbed the 212 steps to the top. I hate them both. They came back all jazzed and full of stories and I was still tired. Then to top it off, Allen forgot my diet coke. My mood is just as gloomy and grey as the day has been. Ever cheerful Debbi tells me to look at life with my glass half full not half empty. Grumble, grumble. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>TerriKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12388026130794631606noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9134205132156422787.post-90284499950150423412013-05-27T13:35:00.001-07:002013-05-27T13:35:06.531-07:00Bath/OxfordToday we took a day trip to Oxford to visit Blenheim Palace. We took 2 trains and a local bus to the front gates, we are seasoned travelers now. We have no problems hopping on and off the trains, standing on platforms, looking, with our noses in the air like everyone else, staring at the boards waiting for the departure/arrival info. We arrived to find Blenheim very busy. Today is a holiday here in the UK and there were some Civil War(UK) re-enactments going on. The Blenheim estate grounds are very large over 2000 acres. It has huge gardens and open green areas with a lake. The locals visit and walk their dogs and have picnics. The Palace has been in the same family for over 300 years and is the ancestral home of Winston Churchill, so there was some info on him. It was very beautiful and interesting and we loved seeing it but it was way over the top. It showed all the excesses of the time and its no wonder they sold almost everything to keep the estate running. Allen, as usual, zipped through the exhibits and went on a walk around the grounds. Mom, Debbi and I did it the easy way and took a buggy ride around the grounds. We found out that a scene in the 5th Harry Potter film was made here. It's very short and is of a tree by the lake. It made Moms day to see it. After a very long day we went back to Bath exhausted. Tomorrow is another day trip but I think Mom is staying here at the apartment, she is getting tired.<br />
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<br />TerriKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12388026130794631606noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9134205132156422787.post-17402906959087944952013-05-26T12:30:00.000-07:002013-05-26T13:00:05.057-07:00BathToday was a beautiful day, lots of sunshine and a few clouds in a beautiful blue sky. We got up early because,well, #1, we couldn't sleep due to the sunshine coming thru the curtains. #2, we needed to get to the Roman Baths early before the crowds. This weekend happens to be a Bank Holiday in the UK and there is a music festival/Fringe Festival this week also. So we have a triple whammy of tourists. We loved walking thru the streets before the hoards got up. We are just 2 blocks from the baths, the Abbey and the shopping(you can hear Allen groan). We toured the baths, which where very fascinating and a lot more extensive than I realized, then we went on a Hop on/off bus around the city. Bath is a World Heritage site just like Edinburgh. So much of it has been preserved that its very easy to imagine carriages and sedan chairs with finely dressed Lords and Ladies in them going to "take the waters'". We also went to the Fashion Museum, very interesting, but Allen wasn't impressed at all. He said it was 15 minutes he will never get back. We visited the Abbey, which of course was very beautiful. It had beautiful stained glass windows, 56 of them, and a wonderful fan ceiling and the requisite tombs/monuments galore. The front of the Abbey had carvings on each side of the window that are of a ladder with angels anscending to heaven and coming down. We are going to go back on Wednesday morning to climb up to the clock tower. We ended the day walking along the streets enjoying the sunshine. Mom and I went back to the apartment, while Debbi and Allen took a river cruise on the river Avon, one of many with the same name. We learned today that when the Romans were here 2000(yikes!) years ago, they liked naming rivers. They asked the local people what the names of different rivers were and they were told "Avon". Well, Avon means "river", so there are a lot of River-Rivers in the UK. Debbi and Allen enjoyed the cruise and got some great pictures. What Debbi didn't like was the bugs and Allen had a good time drinking beer with the Australians he met.<br />
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<br />TerriKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12388026130794631606noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9134205132156422787.post-52430436677873234582013-05-25T13:32:00.000-07:002013-05-25T13:32:11.147-07:00Train to BathToday was a travel day, we left Edinburgh at 9 and it was 7 hours to Bath. We were starving when we finally got to Bath because the weekend trains don't serve meals and we hadn't eaten breakfast this morning. My research was wrong before the trip, so I had to admit to the rest of my crew that their tour guide had dropped the ball. We were able to buy boxed sandwiches which Debbi, Mom and I ate. Allen ate candy that he had bought somewhere along the way and dried fruit he had brought from the states. He hasn't bought anything unlike the rest of us but he has eaten his way across England. He's enjoyed most of the food & beer and the fudge. While he was eating fudge, we were digging through our bags to see what we had squirreled away in them. I found salt & pepper cashews (yum) and Debbie found ginger cookies from Starbucks. So we were good. The rest of the trip was watching the scenery pass by. It is green, rolling hills as far as you can see, farms separated by hedges and trees and winding lanes. As I was watching them pass by, I felt like I was in another time and place. I was certain that I caught a glimpse of Frodo, his faithful servant Samwise, Merry and Pippin tramping across the fields on their way towards adventure. Sorry, couldn't help myself, after all we are in J.R.R. Tolkien territory:). And Shakespeare, Jane Austin, Dickens and all the rest. And when your in a country that has villages with names like Bourton-On-The-Water, Stow-on-the-Wold, Darlington (my favorite), you can be forgiven.<br />
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<br />TerriKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12388026130794631606noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9134205132156422787.post-82663856472101448252013-05-25T12:05:00.000-07:002013-07-17T19:52:45.933-07:00Edinburgh<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wasn't able to post last night because the Internet was down in the hotel, so I'm blogging tonight from our next destination, Bath. We took the train this morning from Edinburgh, it was a long 7 hour train ride.</span><br />
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<br />TerriKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12388026130794631606noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9134205132156422787.post-47981754231068778042013-05-23T11:51:00.004-07:002013-05-23T11:51:53.009-07:00EdinburghWe took a day trip to Stirling Castle today. It's about an our north of Edinburgh by train. I'm glad our train tickets are not set to any particular time, one minute I think we have the hang of it then the next we are missing the train. Luckily there is usually another train right after. What makes it hard to plan a trip is that the platforms you leave from are not posted til just before or as the train is boarding. So it is very confusing for us.<br />
We caught our train and arrived in Stirling then took a taxi to the top of the cliff where the Castle sits. It's all uphill, with the town of Stirling built along the slope. Stirling is a fortress just like Edinburgh Castle, all stone and battlements and Allen had a good time climbing all over it. We spent a few ours at the castle until it got too cold and windy. We had had a small downpour when got there but the rest of day was dry. It was the wind that was bitterly cold, you could hear it outside the stone buildings we were in.<br />
After Stirling, we decided to stop in Falkirk to visit the Falkirk Wheel. It is a large mechanical lock the moves boats between canals. These 2 canals hadn't been in use for a long time until the government decided to do a revitalization of the canals and locks throughout Scotland. In Falkirk they built a very large mechanism that I can't begin to explain. It was very cool and we were glad we stopped. Hopefully you will be able to figure it out from my pictures.<br />
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<br />TerriKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12388026130794631606noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9134205132156422787.post-90012350978189902172013-05-22T14:19:00.000-07:002013-05-22T14:19:00.118-07:00EdinburghToday we went to Edinburgh Castle and the Royal Mile. It started out a beautiful, sunny day when we caught the Hop On/Off bus to the Castle. We have had great weather this whole trip except the one rainy day in London. Its supposed to rain tomorrow but we are hoping it won't.<br />
On our way to the Castle we drove through some of the narrow streets filled with old homes. Edinbugh has a much older feel than London did, more like York but bigger. Most of the buildings in the Royal Mile area are over 200 years old. The New Town area was built after the 1850's, but it still has that old, "genteel" feel about it. The Castle sits at the top of a crag/cliff that slopes downward. At the bottom is the more proper HolyRood Palace. On one side the town spreads out, on the other is a cliff. It's a mile and a bit from the Castle to HolyRood with the High Street or Royal Mile running in between. The Castle was huge and very imposing, definitely built for protection. It has been built in sections over the last 500 years and right into the cliff. After the Castle, we walked and shopped down the Mile. On every block there are shops selling everything Scottish, mostly kilts, scarves, blankets and all in lovely plaids. After lunch, Debbi and Allen went on an underground tour of one of the closed up Close'. All along the street are little alleys called a Close. They lead down under and behind the grand homes on the Mile. They couldn't take pictures but had a good time learning how the poor people of Edinburgh lived. Mom and I went to see the cafe that J. K. Rowling wrote Harry Potter. We didn't go in but she got pictures. We walked the rest of the way to HolyRood and took pictures. We can't go in like we had planned because I guess someone official is in the Palace. After we got back to the hotel we went to dinner at a pub and Allen had Haggis, which he liked. I didn't try any but Debbi did, she said it was very good.<br />
Off to bed now, tomorrow is a train trip to Stirling Castle.<br />
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<br />TerriKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12388026130794631606noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9134205132156422787.post-38906614906721203442013-05-21T13:42:00.001-07:002013-05-21T13:42:07.434-07:00EdinburghWe arrived in Edinburgh around noon today after a pleasant 2 1/2 hour train trip. Southern England is open fields with sheep and English mustard separated by overgrown fences of green hedgerows. It has low hills dotted with small villages that had spires or towers of churches we could see as we passed by. It got more hilly the farther north we traveled. All of a sudden as we were looking out our windows there was the North Sea. We didn't realize how close we were. We went along the coast for awhile before arriving in Edinburgh. It is very close to the Firth of Forth. After we checked into our hotel, we got our on/off bus tickets and went to see the Britannia, the royal yacht that is now a museum. It was very interesting and wonderfully preserved. Everything is just as it was when the Queen and her family sailed on it. We had lunch in the tea rooms on board (very cool!) then went back to our hotel. We will be visiting Edinburgh Castle tomorrow.<br />
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This was our last day in York, tomorrow we are leaving for Edinburgh, Scotland. We went back to the Cathedral today to tour it. This Cathedral was different than the others we have visited. Besides being the most beautiful of them, it is very large and has wonderful carvings and stained glass windows. And we were actually aloud to take pictures. The inside is very open and spacious and somewhat plain compared to the ones we have visited, but the stained glass makes up for it. We couldn't visit the Undercroft where the tombs and treasury are but there were some above that dated back to the early 1500's. I was able to get pictures of the stalls we sat in for Evensong. Allen and Debbi went on the tower tour and walked up a narrow spiral stair to the top. They got some great pictures of the area around the Minster, with all its historical buildings and narrow streets. One of my favorite things about this Cathedral were the Gargoyles, there were quite a few of them in all shapes and sizes.<br />
After the Minster, we went to Tea again (lots of fun and yummy), did a little shopping and then visited the Yorkshire museum. It was near the river and the ruins of an old Abbey. On the other side is the ruins of a wall and turret that surrounded the city. I don't think I will get used to all the ancient bits of history everywhere you turn. One of the funniest things we saw today was a sign outside a shop that said "don't lean on the counter, it is very old".<br />
I've got to do some re-arranging of our suitcases now, they are starting to get filled up with souvenirs. Not a good thing, according to Allen.<br />
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<br />TerriKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12388026130794631606noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9134205132156422787.post-48311169120815317382013-05-19T13:52:00.001-07:002013-05-19T13:52:13.858-07:00YorkToday started out a little cloudy then became sunny and warm, it was a nice change from dreary London. We are staying in a B&B this time and had a lovely breakfast then went out. Sunrise and sunset are much earlier/later here in York so I was awake too early and starving. When we got back to the area around the Minster it was such a relief that it was quieter after the crowds last night, we could actually walk the narrow streets without bumping into people. All the things we are visiting here in York are in a very small area surrounded by the wall we walked last night. The Cathedral or Minster is on one side with small, narrow streets winding half-hazardly towards the river. I love names of the streets: High Petergate, Low Petergate, Swinegate, Goodramgate, Stonegate, Deangate. The York Castle museum is on the other side of the streets, so it is very walkable. No public transportation this time. The first thing we did was visit the Viking museum. There had been a settlement here hundreds of years ago. The museum was a little Disney-ish but good. We went to the York Castle museum next and we all liked it much better. They had created a real Victorian street with shops and sounds of the time period. We then walked through some of the streets we missed. One of them, called the Shambles, was so narrow a car couldn't drive it. We ended up at the Minster to watch Evensong in the afternoon. We were able to sit in the wooden stalls in the choir section. It was very interesting and the choirs voices were beautiful. After resting a bit in our rooms we went for Indian food, which Allen and I had never had. I'm a fan now, it was so good! We all shared but I liked mine the best. I had chicken Tikka Masala. I loved the coconut/sweet flavor.<br />
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