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... like Jane Austen. Highlights for me were the Jane Austen centre and the Roman Baths, which have a great museum built around them and a very extensive audio guide included in the ticket price. We were also lucky enough to be in Bath during their Christmas market, which was massive and so crowded that they had officials and police controlling the flow of people walking around the stalls!

The Bath Abbey is also worth a look and just wandering around ...

... afternoon, we made it into the town of Bath. Di brought us to see the Circus (on a large roundabout) and the Royal Crescent (in a huge, open, green space) – two residential areas with interesting, curving architecture (the Royal Crescent was built by architect John Wood, Jr., in 1767-75).

Previously in the day, the rain had been of the misty kind, but during our stops to the Circus and the Royal Cresent, it turned into a bona fide downpour, so Di loaned ...

Well 7 weeks to GO!!!!


June is still busy buying clothes can't keep her out the shops. We are busy trying to set up all the systems we need in place and staff what they need to do in our absence.

Great finding so many people interested in what we will be doing and where we are travelling to.

Just want to get Junes problem sorted at the hospital they are messing us about. Got heavy with them today.

Watch out for the next update.

What an arrival

Having board the easy jet flight we were told that the wind was blowing at 50 MPH in bristol well whats new its bristol we arrive 15 minuites late after a pretty bumpy decent but smooth landing at Bristol airport

Welcome to wind and rain as the door open follow by a gale blowing accross the runway

... Next morning after a wander around an old church we had a light breakfast and embarked for London to drop off the hire car and check in to The Beaufort Hotel, just around the corner from Harrods department store.

Tonight we will go to the Uriah Heep concert in Highbury.

To those who don't know Uriah Heep, firstly shame on you and secondly google them right now. We will keep you informed......

... old guy.. Mr Scrooge I think his name was. One place had gone all out,with a spooky entrance and a grave in the front yard. The kids had great fun, lots of lollies. One poor kid got to running around and tripped over on the road.. lollies and body parts everywhere!!

Guy Fawkes night was a good night.. cold though. The school put on a fireworks display and fireworks went off all over the town, that night, the weekend before and for about 3 days after!! lol

... there. I really wanted to go to the Jane Austen house/museum, but they only offered tours and our schedule didn't work with theirs. Instead, I went to get my picture taken with the Jane Austen statue in front of the museum, but this guy dressed up in period clothing, I guess trying to be Mr. Darcy from Pride & Prejudice, or some other man from one of Jane Austen's books, snatched my arm up and made me take a picture with him. I ...

... of years ago, they carved a huge horse figure out of the side of a hill with chalk underneath it, so it is just a white horse on the hill which you can see from kilometres away. It was really cool and such an inventive thing to do back then! We also spotted a crop circle!! We stopped at Avebury and wandered amongst the huge stones, which was an amazing experience. I have never seen Stonehenge, but apparently there is a fence and you cannot get ...

... back in the mindset to survive a solo three month-trek through foreign countries. There are tours to Bath and Stonehenge (you actually get to cross the barriers and touch the stones if you take a tour) which costs quite a bit - 60 pounds or 120 Can. dollars. So decided to make my own way there which proved to be quite the experience. Having to learn the confusing transit system, switching multiple trains and getting ...

... and it seems there is no wind here. Walking around the stone circle is fun and I take a lot of photos. I'm thinking, however, that the stones could have been bigger, at least I expected them to be bigger.

The circle used to work as an astronomic calendar, it would predict the solstice or some natural calamities. It was also used as a place of prayer, and people would meet here to begin and to end each season of the year.

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