Preparing to leave Warrington again!
Trip Start
Jul 04, 2006
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Trip End
Jan 16, 2007
Warrington,
United Kingdom
Tuesday, January 2, 2007
Trust you all had a fantastic New Years celebrations, and wishing you best wishes for 2007.
This will be a short and brief entry, as I'm typing this at the Warrington public library, and only have a short time allowed. Sorry no photo's, but I will update this blog entry at some future time and attach some photos, and when I do you should get an update email if your interested.
After our last entry following our day visiting the Roman baths in the town of Bath, we ended up staying there another night, and used the day to do a 2 1/2 hour walking tour of the town where we learned all about the towns history and some of the fascinating buildings and sites. It really is an amazing place, and we really enjoyed our visit there. After our tour we spent time in some of the historical buildings, including a visit to the Bath Abbey, where the coronation of the first ever English king took place, with some of that ceremony still used in the coronations of today. (ps sorry for any spelling errors, but as I said, I have to hurry!)
The next day (New Years Eve) Gail had read of the small town of Lacock nearby which has an abbey where parts of two Harry Potter movies were filmed, so it was off to there, but unfortunately we found it was now closed for the winter, but we did manage to walk around and take some photos. We later learned that Lacock Abbey, founded in 1232, was where some of the classroom scenes were filmed in the medieval cloisters, sacristy and Chapter House, and down the corridors where Harry Potter walked in "Philosophers Stone" and "Chamber of Secrets".
After that it was about midday, and as the weather was getting a bit nasty, we decided to make tracks back to Warrington before the sky fell onto us. After about an hours driving, the mobile phone rang, and it was our daughter Jacki wishing us Happy New Year, as it had just struck midnight in Aussie, so Gail had a nice old chat as we continued on our way north.
Mid afternoon the heavens opened up, and it belted down for the next couple of hours, and although it was only about 3.30pm, it looked as dark as midnight, however by taking our time we made it back to Warrington some time after 5.00pm. It had been a long and tiring drive.
New Years night was spent having a lovely dinner with Dee & Tony, and Sue & Peter, and we had a great time. Fireworks are still sold over the counter here in the UK, so on midnight not only was there the fireworks from London shown on the TV, but outside there were skyrockets and fireworks going off everywhere. Standing out front, the sky was ablaze with color and the rumbling noise of crackers going off in every direction was just brilliant. It sounded like the army was advancing under fire, and I've never experienced anything like it before.
The next day, after a long sleep in due to getting to bed after 2.00am, we unpacked and did some washing before heading out to Northwich where Gail and I spent the afternoon and evening with my cousins Les and Tony Little and there families. It was another great time with family, and I never tire of spending time and getting to know everyone more and more with each visit. Tony and Sarah invited us back to their home for dinner, where we met Sarah's family and Mum & Dad who were also visiting. We had a lovely meal, and a great chat to finish off a wonderful New Years Day.
Ok, so now we are up to date, its time to let you know of our next journey.
We are booked to fly out of Manchester International Airport at 7.00am tomorrow morning (Wed 3rd Jan07) for a week in Cyprus. We have heard a lot about Cyprus with its Greek history and ancient ruins, so we are very excited and look forward to sharing with you our adventures whenever we get the opportunity.
Once again, Happy New Year to all.
PS. its Gail's 49th birthday today, so we are planning to go out to celebrate tonight on our last night in Warrington, and to thank Dee & Tony for all their patience and kind hospitality over the past couple of months. Gail loved the early morning phone calls from our daughters back in Aussie!
