Today our excess baggage was collected from Aunt Gwen's. It goes back without us, and I'll pick it up from Tullamarine Airport at the end of next week.
Most of the rest of the day has been spent uploading and labelling photos, and catching this up. Sadly, the trip is nearly over...
Tomorrow the car goes back, and on Saturday, so do we....
Cheers
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Where We Live
Victoria - Australia
Day 34 - Tuesday 3rd April 2007
We headed straight for Cheddar Gorge this morning. On arriving we walked around a bit, then did the (rather nerve-wracking) drive through the Gorge. We stopped at the rock-cleft where Rev Toplady was inspired to write 'Rock of Ages' on the way out of the Gorge. We also bought cheese...
After Cheddar Gorge we did a long drive to Stratford-On-Avon to see Anne Hathaway's cottage, Mary Arden's house and the place where Shakespeare was born.
Settling out on the exhausted side of tired, we arrived back in Tipton around 8pm...
Cheers
After Cheddar Gorge we did a long drive to Stratford-On-Avon to see Anne Hathaway's cottage, Mary Arden's house and the place where Shakespeare was born.
Settling out on the exhausted side of tired, we arrived back in Tipton around 8pm...
Cheers
Day 33 - Monday 2nd April 2007
Happy Birthday Phillip!!
This morning we had a leisurely breakfast in the pub, then went to Clovelly.
I was amazed to see surf shops (specifically Billabong and RipCurl) in the carpark at the top of the village. Apparently a bit further down the coast people actually do surf!
Clovelly is a rather vertical town. The houses are arranged along a very steep path from near the carpark down to the shore. It used to be a fishing village. I rather suspect it's a tourist one, now. We paid 4.75 GBP each to walk down the street (as Mum kept putting it). The path was VERY steep, but the village was beautiful. We stopped halfway for a cream tea (we were in Devonshire, after all), and for Mum to post a parcel to Liam and Katey. At the bottom we wimped out and took the 4x4 back to the top. We had to. It would have been too much for poor Mum to walk all that way again, uphill... as it turned out, she had hurt her foot somewhere along the way.
After Clovelly we went to Tintagel, famed in folklore as the birthplace of King Arthur. A very picturesque town, and another long (steep) walk to the interesting bit. This time Mum had a coffee at the top, and Roy & I went down to see the castle - but only from the outside, of course. I've already filled my castle quota.
We decided to stay back at Horn's Cross again, and after arriving Roy & I walked down to the nearest beach from the hotel - Peppercombe Beach. A downhill mile to the beach, and I'm sure the mile back uphill was steeper... We ate at the pub again, and had an early night.
Cheers
This morning we had a leisurely breakfast in the pub, then went to Clovelly.
I was amazed to see surf shops (specifically Billabong and RipCurl) in the carpark at the top of the village. Apparently a bit further down the coast people actually do surf!
Clovelly is a rather vertical town. The houses are arranged along a very steep path from near the carpark down to the shore. It used to be a fishing village. I rather suspect it's a tourist one, now. We paid 4.75 GBP each to walk down the street (as Mum kept putting it). The path was VERY steep, but the village was beautiful. We stopped halfway for a cream tea (we were in Devonshire, after all), and for Mum to post a parcel to Liam and Katey. At the bottom we wimped out and took the 4x4 back to the top. We had to. It would have been too much for poor Mum to walk all that way again, uphill... as it turned out, she had hurt her foot somewhere along the way.
After Clovelly we went to Tintagel, famed in folklore as the birthplace of King Arthur. A very picturesque town, and another long (steep) walk to the interesting bit. This time Mum had a coffee at the top, and Roy & I went down to see the castle - but only from the outside, of course. I've already filled my castle quota.
We decided to stay back at Horn's Cross again, and after arriving Roy & I walked down to the nearest beach from the hotel - Peppercombe Beach. A downhill mile to the beach, and I'm sure the mile back uphill was steeper... We ate at the pub again, and had an early night.
Cheers
Day 32 - Sunday 1st April 2007
We left fairly early this morning at about 8.30am, and headed directly to Stone Henge. The three of us took the audio tour (holding little things near our ears all the way around Stone Henge, in the photos it looks like everyone is on a mobile phone). I know we took a huge number of photos there, but I can't bring myself to cull any yet, so yes, there are lots of Stone Henge pix!!
In the afternoon we went to Glastonbury. We didn't climb the Tor, the walk takes a couple of hours, and we didn't have that long. Glastonbury was rather beautiful, with some fantastic jewellery shops....
We drove on towards Clovelly in the evening, and stayed at Horn's Cross in a pub/B&B about 5 miles from Clovelly.
Cheers
In the afternoon we went to Glastonbury. We didn't climb the Tor, the walk takes a couple of hours, and we didn't have that long. Glastonbury was rather beautiful, with some fantastic jewellery shops....
We drove on towards Clovelly in the evening, and stayed at Horn's Cross in a pub/B&B about 5 miles from Clovelly.
Cheers
Day 31 - Saturday 31st March 2007
Another quiet day. Diane contacted one of the travel agent's preferred carriers and organised for the excess baggage to leave next Wednesday, Carol did some shopping, and then the afternoon was spent at Aunt Lil's having tea with the wider family.
There is also some video of the afternoon - it should go up onto YouTube soon.
We ended up having an early night, ready for the last trip of the holiday.
Cheers
There is also some video of the afternoon - it should go up onto YouTube soon.
We ended up having an early night, ready for the last trip of the holiday.
Cheers
Day 30 - Friday 30th March 2007
Today was a catchup day. Uploading photos, paying bills (the ones at home), starting to think about how to get excess baggage home, laundry... all that sort of thing.
So there are no photos from today!
Cheers
So there are no photos from today!
Cheers
Day 29 – Thursday 29th March 2007: Liverpool
Diane went to Liverpool today on the train from Birmingham New Street station. After visiting the Cavern Quarter (where the Cavern was, in Matthew Street), and the ‘Beatles Story’ exhibition, Diane bought Phillip a limited edition print of an Astrid Kirchherr photo from the Hamburg days. This photo features John Lennon, George Harrison and Stuart Sutcliffe. Apparently she didn’t like Paul McCartney, and he isn’t in it. It’s a fantastic photo. I actually preferred a numbered print of a drawing done by Klaus Voormann called ‘Boulevard of Broken Strings’ with John Lennon walking (possibly a little inebriated) in the rain down a Hamburg street, kind-of like James Dean... Sadly this was the last print, and had been poorly mounted. It couldn’t be removed from the mount, and that meant I couldn’t take it home. I had a fun day, and got back at about 7.45pm.
Carol spent the day in and around Dudley – she went to book the bus tickets for our return to Heathrow, but found she was short some information, so had to go back to Tipton to check the flight details, and then back to Dudley to make the booking… She managed to also purchase a new, red, dog-patterned, very warm, jacket… We are now looking at the issues of excess baggage….
Cheers
Carol spent the day in and around Dudley – she went to book the bus tickets for our return to Heathrow, but found she was short some information, so had to go back to Tipton to check the flight details, and then back to Dudley to make the booking… She managed to also purchase a new, red, dog-patterned, very warm, jacket… We are now looking at the issues of excess baggage….
Cheers
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