Loch Fyne And Milsoms Hotel Kenilworth

With time rapidly dwindling I went down to Banbury way this afternoon to visit my brother et famille before I leave, taking the opportunity to say goobye to two young nephews - one of whom was able to appreciate some of the implications of what I am doing, "But what if you get sick?" he asked. :-)

Back up to Stoke in the late evening. Last day of preparations tomorrow.

... for the foreign visitors. We set off through Braunston Tunnel - they were amazed to find it was built in 1796. Porto Velho, where they come from, was only established in about 1900. We then went down through four locks and moored up. Sylvia and Nonny went off with Priscilla and Gerard to do Oxford and London, in between falling asleep, as they were very tired. Maggie and Clive stayed ...

... Meghan consume food of more than one type together in my life, but apparently she's gotten over her qualms about mixing so far as to eat the scones with clotted cream and strawberry jam on top. They were very good. After scones, we went to walk around Magdelene, or "maudlin" as everyone says it. Here is the college with the two towers (which apparently seem to rise from nowhere from the river) which inspired Tolkein's two towers in The Lord of the Rings . Once you enter the college, in ...

Woke hearing the ringing of church bells from Holy Trinity for the 6am and 8.30 am services – such a lovely sound!!. Lay in and read for awhile before heading out to Kenilworth Castle (about 20 mins. away) with Stephen & Michele. Cost 4 pounds 95 for me and 2 pounds 50p for Nathan (total $17.50)



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... rolls from a French patisserie for lunch. We got back to Stratford about 3 pm and read a book for a few hours. We went to the "Dirty Duck", a Black Swan pub for dinner. Had a great day – love walking the public footpaths and plan to do lots more in the future.

Brad called & woke me up at 6.30 am... looked outside and there was snow on the cars and rooves.... so pretty. Today was 3 degrees but minus 3 with the wind chill. Stephen and Michele had things to do today so we were entertaining ourselves. We had a lazy start and Nathan did some homework. It was freezing out today and so cold that Nathan just wanted ...

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All the way home we looked for a bakery to buy some sausage rolls for lunch but couldn’t find any. We had a late lunch when we got home at 3.45 pm. Tonight for dinner we bought Indian from Tesco’s Supermarket and heated it up. Really no cooking and so nice.

... the two, had holes in the walls called murder holes to pour boiling water or shoot from to kill them.








We then climbed up and walked along the Ramparts and Towers along the whole front wall. It was so windy and cold. All day we were freezing and our feet were numb. It was about 2 degrees C.





Stratford-upon-Avon, England, United Kingdom hilaryramsey

Woke up 3 am and dozed until 6am and then got up. Nathan slept until 8 am. Michele made us all porridge for breakfast. This morning we did a 2 hour walk around Stratford with Stephen. We went to Holy Trinity church where Shakespeare was baptised and buried. We had a look inside and read some of the old tombstones. We walked along the river and saw swans and ...

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. Had yummy meal of fish and black forest cake. Flew 7 hours to Munich and only had 30 mins from when the plane landed till the next one left. We made it but discovered when we got to London, that our luggage hadn't. Took 1-1/2 hours to London – got there 2.10 pm. It was 4 hours behind Dubai. Stephen and Michele were there waiting with our coats and took us to nearby Windsor ...