Some pics from our trip to England & Wales
Jun 19, 2022 11:44:17 GMT
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Post by naughtyfox on Jun 19, 2022 11:44:17 GMT
As Dogless posted this: "good luck on your retirement adventures and don't forget to post some photos please." , I thought I'd slap my photos up. This wasn't a trip for taking photos, so it's just random stuff.
Bus from our village to Kokkola, train to Tikkurila (Helsinki) and local train to the airport, overnight there in a nice, quiet area I know of - no-one else ever goes down there, and our 'own toilets'. 0800 Finnair to Heathrow, 5 minutes to get through the Passport machines, then a half-hour before luggage started coming through. The pre-paid ticket machines worked for a change with my bank card so we got all four sets (two sets for out: Heathrow to Hayes & Harlington, Hayes & Harlington to Droitwich Spa - two sets for return same route). Quite a good little trick, that, not having to go into the centre of London.
First touristy thing was the Church of the Sacred Heart and St Catherine of Alexandria, in Droitwich Spa, where the walls have been decorated in mosaic:
Finnair Airbus 350 Helsinki-London Heathrow
Church of the Sacred Heart and St Catherine of Alexandria, Droitwich Spa
My sister had insisted on lending us her car (a Mini (BMW)) instead of us renting one and we drove to visit relatives in Norfolk via Market Harborough to collect some of our boat papers from the broker (tidying up loose ends). Very nice scenic road the B664 between M.Harborough & Uppingham, and we stopped for lunch just east of Outwell beside the Welland Creek where it crosses the Middle Level Main Drain on an aqueduct - if it had not been for the fake 'pandemic' of 'Covid' (it's a cold, if anything) we'd have been chugging over that aqueduct in June 2021. A day in Diss, and then across Suffolk & Essex, stopping in Finchingfield:
Finchingfield
To Ongar and onto the M11-M25-M40 to 'make the jump' into the Chilterns and overnight in a village pub B&B, and the following morning across the Thames at Goring and to Newbury to collect the last of our boat paperwork and past the Uffington White Horse to Highworth where there's a whisky shop that sells real whiskies, none of this rubbish you find in supermarkets - Mannochmore and Glen Keith for me (one bottle per person customs limit now that the UK has left the EU).
Then a drive round the southern edge of the Malvern Hills to Ledbury and back via the very seep hill of Martley (east of the River Teme) and back across the Severn, and then a 3-day trip to Ledbury, Hereford, across the Brecon Beacons and back over again, stopping the next day in Crickhowell, Abergavenny, Monmouth and Ross-on-Wye:
I found this Miserable Peter Rabbit amusing.
to be continued....
Bus from our village to Kokkola, train to Tikkurila (Helsinki) and local train to the airport, overnight there in a nice, quiet area I know of - no-one else ever goes down there, and our 'own toilets'. 0800 Finnair to Heathrow, 5 minutes to get through the Passport machines, then a half-hour before luggage started coming through. The pre-paid ticket machines worked for a change with my bank card so we got all four sets (two sets for out: Heathrow to Hayes & Harlington, Hayes & Harlington to Droitwich Spa - two sets for return same route). Quite a good little trick, that, not having to go into the centre of London.
First touristy thing was the Church of the Sacred Heart and St Catherine of Alexandria, in Droitwich Spa, where the walls have been decorated in mosaic:
Finnair Airbus 350 Helsinki-London Heathrow Church of the Sacred Heart and St Catherine of Alexandria, Droitwich SpaMy sister had insisted on lending us her car (a Mini (BMW)) instead of us renting one and we drove to visit relatives in Norfolk via Market Harborough to collect some of our boat papers from the broker (tidying up loose ends). Very nice scenic road the B664 between M.Harborough & Uppingham, and we stopped for lunch just east of Outwell beside the Welland Creek where it crosses the Middle Level Main Drain on an aqueduct - if it had not been for the fake 'pandemic' of 'Covid' (it's a cold, if anything) we'd have been chugging over that aqueduct in June 2021. A day in Diss, and then across Suffolk & Essex, stopping in Finchingfield:
FinchingfieldTo Ongar and onto the M11-M25-M40 to 'make the jump' into the Chilterns and overnight in a village pub B&B, and the following morning across the Thames at Goring and to Newbury to collect the last of our boat paperwork and past the Uffington White Horse to Highworth where there's a whisky shop that sells real whiskies, none of this rubbish you find in supermarkets - Mannochmore and Glen Keith for me (one bottle per person customs limit now that the UK has left the EU).
Then a drive round the southern edge of the Malvern Hills to Ledbury and back via the very seep hill of Martley (east of the River Teme) and back across the Severn, and then a 3-day trip to Ledbury, Hereford, across the Brecon Beacons and back over again, stopping the next day in Crickhowell, Abergavenny, Monmouth and Ross-on-Wye:
I found this Miserable Peter Rabbit amusing. to be continued....
Ledbury
Ledbury church - "the 1630 memorial to Edward and Elizabeth Skynner in the chancel. The memorial shows the couple kneeling, facing each other over a prayer desk, with their 10 children beneath them, 5 girls and 5 boys. Between the couple is a baby wrapped in swaddling, to signify a child that died in infancy. The detail of the period costumes is remarkable."
"The one ‘unarguably great wooden figure’ to survive the iconoclasm of the Reformation is the Jesse Tree at St Mary’s Priory Church, Abergavenny."
Abergavenny church
Abergavenny church
Abergavenny church
B&B breakfast near Hay-on-Wye
Raglan Castle, between Abergavenny and Monmouth. Just stopped here for a wee, off the big road and back on again...
The Witch playing with bees
Hereford Cathedral - we were there before Evensong so stayed to watch that (1730-1815) and then had evening meal in The Black Lion pub by the River Wye (good food, good pub).
Finnair Airbus 350 to Darkest Scandinavia
Helsinki - National Museum pointy building, stadium tower white
Helsinki - Houses of Parliament pale brown granite block with lots of windows - taken from top of 'Tower Hotel'
Helsinki - South Harbour from ferry to Suomenlinna (the Viking Line ship goes to Stockholm at 6pm every day)
