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Sunday, July 09, 2006
TOURING AROUND THE BLAXHALL AREA - July 7, 2006
A couple of amazing castles, two different sorts of windmill, an incredible archeological treasure, and a pirate raid!
This is a poorhouse within the old castle….and notice the decorative (and completely non-functional) chimney put up on top of the old tower in Tudor times…....
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GREAT YARMOUTH to ALDEBURGH to BLAXHALL - July 6, 2006
A theater in a church, and a good deal of history around Great Yarmouth, then a lovely beach town recommended by Susan, and finally a wrecked abbey…..
Saw the road-sign indicating this village, and what reader of Harry Potter could resist? Yes, it DOES say “Snape”.....although there is no serpent in their crest!
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ENRICHING KING’S LYNN, ENJOYING FELBRIGG HALL, and the BRIGHTON OF THE NORTH - July 5, 2006
July 5, 2006
Left King’s Lynn YHA early and drove through town – stopped at the Cathedral and after talking about it, decided that no one was parking there, it was so early in the morning, it was a long ways to the pay station, we were going to be only five minutes in the cathedral, and the parking attendant SURELY wouldn’t come by and ticket the car. Wrong. Fifteen pounds wrong, to be exact. The turkey must have been watching us and waiting for until we went inside the cathedral – we couldn’t have been more than five minutes, as we didn’t even leave the towers above the entrance on the west end!! Ah well.
Here you see Gail talking to the perfectly delightful “mine host” of a B&B in Great Yarmouth—he told us wonderful stories, and showed us around his B&B. When you’re next in Great Yarmouth, don’t stay ANYwhere but the Spindrift - it’s clean (every day by the owners), comfortable and economical…only about 50% more than our bare-bones hostel in the off-season.
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TOO MANY COLLEGES, ONE GREAT CATHEDRAL, and THE GREAT OUZE…July 4, 2006
That would be Cambridge (just join ‘em, and get a bike!), Ely, and the hostel in King’s Lynn….
This should prove to Thor that we don’t see EVERYthing in England through our “rose-colored spectacles”....this is right down in Cambridge, very near the colleges for which the city is famous.
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DUXFORD, AUDLEY END, and the TUMULI - July 3, 2006
Today we got a little U.S. history, along with a better look than I’d ever had of the British air war against Germany. A big disappointment at Audley End, and then a surprise find to (sort of) make up for it…...and here is what has been called “the perfect English village”:
otherwise known as Finching Fields. In fairness, I should tell you that the specific criteria mentioned were that it has a green, a pond with ducks, a church, and a windmill, all visible from the same spot - although not where I’m standing. Furthermore, when we mentioned this to English friends, they denied that this is really “the perfect English village”—they have their own candidates, and couldn’t agree with one another, either. So, I guess you’ll have to come over and pick your own!
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LONDON to SAFFRON WALDEN - July 2, 2006
On Gail’s birthday, we left and drove north….stopping to see things along the way, and finally arriving in a town that was enormously rich back in the early part of the second millennium…..
HACKNEY and GREENWICH - June 29-July 1, 2006
Safely in London, and although we’d planned to leave earlier, we werer having such a good time we hung around for a couple of extra days - lucky Susan was such an accommodating hostess…..the Hackney Council and their parking policy wasn’t even enough to make us feel unwelcome. Soon, we’ll be headed north and east…...
Reading
- BlogsForDummies :)
Web resources
- Arts & Letters Daily
- Ravi Zacharias
- Southern Adventist University
- The SAU Biology Deptartment - where I work with a bunch of very neat people.
- Venezuelan news—FROM Venezuela