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50th Coming Home
Coming home…. I’m on the plane heading for Iceland now, it is minus 65.5 out side the plane and we are at 38K feet. We talked about this trip for years, planned for it, saved for it but at the … Continue reading
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50th Westminster…Abby and Cathedral
When we ventured out of our hotel the next morning we found we were within walking distance to Westminster Cathedral and Westminster Abby: the Cathedral is Roman Catholic and the Abby is Church of England. We visited the Cathedral first … Continue reading
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50th Pilgrimage To Canterbury
Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote, The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licóur Of which vertú engendred is the flour; Our pilgramage to Canterbury to pause and reflect where Thomas … Continue reading
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50th Durham and York
I shall begin with a disclaimer….By now you are aware that Eric and I have visited a number of places of worship starting with Stonehenge, then Salisbury, then Glouster, then the temple at Hadrian’s Wall. There was no place of … Continue reading
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50th Hadrian’s Wall
To begin some perspective, Stone Henge is five thousand years old and people proabably worshiped there or whatever they were doing for a long time before that. The oldest pyramids are also around five thousand years old and graves in … Continue reading
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50th Beatrix Potter….and The Lake District
Beatrix Potter wrote those charming books about the little animals and her cat, her rabbits and her duck with whom she lived. She also had a husband. And a brother who painted and who drank himself to death. She used … Continue reading
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50th..Death and Destruction and Royalty at Caernarvon
Our hostess in Bala, Wales has the fabulous job of helping farmers in the surrounding counties develop value added products to enhance their incomes and retain their farms and their way of life. You can imagine how happy we were … Continue reading
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50th Rome, England
On Friday we went to Rome. Or some of what is left of it in England. In the Victorian era the game master of a Lord Elton was hunting and his dog followed a rabbit and in the scramble and … Continue reading
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50th….First the Ridiculous…
We took a side trip to an animal park and garden that is near Cheltonham because I wanted to see the garden. It was pretty neat, all sorts of tropical plants, temperate ones and all sorts of desert pleants. Then … Continue reading
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CHECK CLIOSGARDEN.COM FOR THE 1ST POST
Hello everyone, Face book did not publish my first post because it thought I didn’t exist over here. If you want to read all about the London Eye go to cliosgarden.com and you will find it there. Clio
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