A place like home. wow. you guys wont want to come home. the west coast of canada looks amazing and I completely agree with the similarities you have pointed out. also they do have good coffee and while in canada i got addicted to tim hortons coffee and cinnamon buns. hope the cruise to alaska is fabulous. and i know you probably dont want to get home, but i look forward to more pictures and fabulous stories.
Another to the list Hi again,
Looks like the place to go to enjoy the beauty of another country without feeling too homesick. Just to be able to see all the wildlife up close and personal would be fascinating. I have just spent the weekend watching baseball with a Canadian lady. She spoke of going home to visit her father soon. I now understand why she spoke so fondly of the country she grew up in. It looks beautiful.
No need for me to go now! I have really enjoyed Northern England and it was really cheap. I didn't even have to eat the really bad food. I too am exhausted but not for the same reasons as you. Reports, exam writing etc etc etc. Look forward to enjoying the rest of your trip.
Harry Potter and the short sheep Harry Potter seems like one very happy man. Glad to hear that you have tracked down your birthplace and are reliving your childhood memories.
Maybe its my eyes but those sheep seem minature.
Hope you are over the cold Dee ... mines just started.
the Joy Oh Richard realy enjoyed reading this and to see the absolute joy on your face here in the pictures. It is nice to see where you were born and grew up before comming here to Australia. I can just hear Dee too reciting poetry to you too you both must have felt you were in seventh heaven here in England. Seeing and feeling all this part of England has to offer. For both of you is a pleasure to be able to share this with with you both Carol and Harry ( Mum and Dad)
Paris doesn't do it for me As I have commented in a previous blog, I've never really been interested in Paris. I've never really seen the romantic side to the city that everyone goes on about. The artworks however would be something that may lure me there. I think it would be absolutely thrilling to see the works of the masters. Also the Catacombs would be fascinating. No wonder you didn't really experience the romance of the kiss on the Eiffel Tower when Richard was thinking about poo pipes. Trust a male to think about engineering at a time like that.
Hello France and Venice sound amazing from our vantage point. I love your descriptions which make everything sound so exciting and wonderful. Miles and I will have to go to all these places. We may even take Martin with us! Look forward to hearing more. Love to you both.
Hounds Biggles is glad he is at home ... there seems to be too much competition for too little chicken!
He'd definately get a complex about his weight with all those slim things nearby.
Hi guys
Those buildings look amazing. It looks like you've gotten the finger from the orangutan. Maybe he was enjoying the peep show! I can understand why Richard was thrilled with seeing the Okapi. Did this make up for missing the Kri Kri?
Good friends & great food It's wonderful to see you both looking so relaxed. I could sense the exhaustion in the last couple of entries. It's amazing how relaxing time spent with good friends and great food can be. What a lucky lady Nellie is to be able to enjoy this lifestyle on a regular basis. I'm extremely jealous.
Awesome pictures Thanks so much for the blog entries, I will need the weekend to read up on the others. I hope somewhere there's mention of the nice mother and son team from the states you ran into! So who's Evans? Just part of your imagination? I did like that movie too! Great entry, I may half to join to see if I can even come close to such a woonderful thing you have here. enjoy the rest of the trip! chat soon
great to read your blog Hi Dee and Richard. Love reading your blogs. Can't wait to see you in Canada. we are stuck right back into the grind. Loved our Greek vacation and already planning the next. See you in July.
Another to the list Hi guys,
I must say France was never really on my list of places to see until now. I guess it was because I had never really heard or seen much of what the countryside had to offer. I tend to think of Paris only when I think of France. I'm really going to have to save my pennies now so I can see all this through my own eyes. Still it is much cheaper and more relaxing watching you do all the hard work! Keep it up I'm enjoying my holiday.
Well you have outdone yourselves with this one. Such great fun to read and very clever. I hope you are going to let your Geography depts share these with the kids! Have more wonderful adventures please!
You're Joking,Right???? I hope your tongue was well and truly in your cheek when you made all those comments about Venice, Dee!
It's shabby because it's OLD...I loved every bit of it. To be fair, I haven't been there for 20 yearsb,ut it couldn't have been THAT bad...I think you'll have to go there again when you're not so tired.
Loved having you both in Belves...we'll have to do it again sometime.
Enjoy the rest of your travels! Love Nel
Venice may be old but it still looks beautiful I have really enjoyed travelling vicariously through these blogs. I realise Venice is run down but from down town Glenbrook it still has a certain charm!!! I particularly loved Greece and am looking forward to the rest of our trip. Love from both of us
disallusion of Knossos Hi Dee and Richard now you done it. The Knossos was one place I have always wanted to go to after reading the Bull of Minos all those years ago as now will have to go back and reread and see if it was now written as to what Authur Evans thought it should have been like. I was so amazed at the time they had plumbing there and now after reading your account there I don't know anymore. I had poked your Dad in the ribs to tell him what I was seeing in writting that I found incredible now maybe that wasn"t so. But after saying that it gave me my thirst to find out more about this wonderous civalisation that had so many years before even more so than when in the early 50s that I did art theory at school. So enjoying your account of what you are both seeing there. See your educating me as you go along lol. Dad reckons you have alot of work to do to educate me there. But please say you have seen some of the acrobates that jumped over the bulls in potery there or I will be totaly disallusioned if you didn't.
my favouritist places great english, but you are in one week in my most favouritist places ever! glad you enjoyed the quad bike and the r and r of santorini. i also giggled at richards finding. swtizerland will be wonderful, be sure to take a cog railway to the top of a peak, its a great experience :)
enjoy, travel safe,
jess.
Holiday bliss Santorini appears to be my type of holiday destination. Good food, beautiful surroundings, rest and relaxation. What more could you want? Richard it's good to see you haven't had to give up your chocolate addiction on this trip. It looked deliciously messy. I'm so envious of the foods you have been sampling along the way. Bring on Switzerland!
envy I am here at school (period 2) I am supposed to be setting a lesson but found your email instead. It is so hard to log out and get back to the real world. It sounds like your having a great time. I really wish I were there !!!
Jessica
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A place like home.
wow. you guys wont want to come home. the west coast of canada looks amazing and I completely agree with the similarities you have pointed out. also they do have good coffee and while in canada i got addicted to tim hortons coffee and cinnamon buns. hope the cruise to alaska is fabulous. and i know you probably dont want to get home, but i look forward to more pictures and fabulous stories.