OT: My trip across the Pond PICTURES (more than you want).

[cairee]

glad you had a good time! cant wait for pictures!!!!

oh and Welcome back!

[fccs]

Welcome home! I can't wait to see pictures and hear more about it. We missed you (and we behaved!).

[karen4bells]

Welcome back, Carole and I'm so glad you had such a wonderful Holiday!!!! I know we are all anxiously awaiting your photos!!!

[Squirrel]

Hurray you are back home safely and that's great to know. Like everyone else I am looking forward to seeing your pics. Must have been a great time with so little stitching done.

Are the Ladies talking to you yet?

[tiffstitch]

Great to know you're home safe and that you had a great time! L&S hopefully won't give you the silent treatment and will be happy to have you home as well.

[Serinde]

And now that I am back home there is no doubt in my mind that the weather will be warmer, sunnier and dryer in the UK. And it is good to be back home too!!!!!

Carole

Yup. Even here in my little patch of the West, Easter was a spectacular day. Typical; but if you loved it even in it's Spring changeableness, something must have been right. Sounds to have been a lovely time, full of new adventures.

[Rose]

So happy to have you back and just can't wait for the pictures!!!!!!!!

[rcperryls]

Thank you all for welcoming me back. I need a vacation to recover from my vacation . Got my girls this morning. We have now been home for about 6 hours and they are finally both in the same room with me. Shirley seems to think that it is Laverne's fault that they had to endure the last 2 weeks so she hisses at Laverne as well as me. Hopefully that has stopped now. Both are well and survived what to them must have been an ordeal. The vet warned me that Shirley might be hoarse because she never stopped meowing (telling them what she thought of her situation, no doubt).

I've been catching up on real life and sorting pictures. Will post the best ones once I get a bit more organized. And am itching to stitch. Which is how I plan to spend my evening.

If I miss someone's beautiful project I apologize ahead of time and want to say Happy Birthday and Happy Forumversary to all those that I missed. And again welcome to all the new members.

Carole

[fccs]

Shirley seems to think that it is Laverne's fault that they had to endure the last 2 weeks so she hisses at Laverne as well as me. Hopefully that has stopped now. Both are well and survived what to them must have been an ordeal. The vet warned me that Shirley might be hoarse because she never stopped meowing (telling them what she thought of her situation, no doubt).
Carole

Oh, our fur babies are so funny when we leave them. When I get back from a trip (even from overnight), Jackson first tells me off, and then he becomes a holster cat, not leaving my side at all for awhile.

[Squirrel]

So glad to know the Ladies are home. Tuppy sends purrrrrrssss and hopes they can settle down now they are home.

[BizzieLizzie]

Glad you had such a wonderful time and that Laverne and Shirley haven't completely disowned you!

So when will you start planning the trip to Scotland and Wales?

[rcperryls]

So when will you start planning the trip to Scotland and Wales?

Saving my pennies now.
Keep watching this space. I have my photos in Photobucket and now I'm trying to remember which is which. Fortunately the dates are a big help. You will soon see yourself and RosemaryD will also. Project for today is to get that done and post one or two from favorite places.
And laundry too.

Carole

[Mabel Figworthy]

Glad to hear you had such a lovely time!

[mags]

Glad you had a great time - looking forward to photos

[richardandtracy]

Glad you enjoyed yourself.
The weather was relatively benign while you were here, which was nice.

Our fleabags always resent it while we're away. Old Albert in my avatar used to sit in front of us in the living room & swear at us for a good 10 minutes, go out and mark his territory again for 10 minutes, and then for the rest of the day was never further than 10ft from us.

Regards,

Richard

[rcperryls]

I won't bore you with all of them. And still have more to add to the Photobucket Album of my most fabulous trip of a lifetime 2015 UK Holiday. If I have mislabeled any of my photos, I apologize to all of you who live in the UK and please let me know so I can correct it. We saw so many villages, beautiful cathedrals, abbeys and smaller, charming churches as well as breathtaking scenery. More ewes and lambs than I have ever seen. Lambs that looked nearly newborn. One field we passed after a cold and rainy night (most of our nights were cold and rainy) had lambs wrapped up in what looked like plastic raincoats. Moving too fast to get a picture. Our driver/tour guide/and what feels like a new friend, had never seen anything like it before, either. Not sure I will ever be able to eat a lamb chop or any other lamb again. They were way too cute! The trip was very much like the movie "If its Tuesday, this must be Belgium", but I wouldn't change anything about it, except to be able to stay longer in the places we saw and stay longer so I can visit the places I didn't see. Enough babbling. A few of my favorite photos (though I couldn't take pictures everywhere we went or no flashes allowed so pictures were too dark to tell what they were):


Tower of London


Scaffold Site Memorial at the Tower of London


Gauntlet at the Victoria and Albert Museum - not great for stitching and hard to see how it would be great to fight in either.


One of the few decent shots I have of Westminster Abbey. Even peeking at the Shrine of Edward the Confessor was mind boggling and of course all the tombs of Kings and Queens and the Poet's corner and then against a wall in the Cloister we saw several smaller graves easy to miss among all the grandeur of the royal tombs


At least that is what we thought they were. Somehow these brought a more real picture of people living and working and praying.

And most important of all in London I met:
Liz (BizzieLizzie)


and
Rosemary (RosemaryD)


I am so sorry that I wasn't able to meet more of you who are in the UK. Next time, I promise.

And some pics now without all the commentary.


Lacock Abbey


Bath Abbey


Roman Baths


Stonehenge


A tomb up a hill in Avebury. The red and yellow blurs are fresh roses. The white blur is a candle which had been recently lit.


St John the Baptist or St Catherine (?) in the Cotswolds.


Thornbury Castle


and Hotel (I will never believe I slept in a 16th Century Tudor Castle)


Conwy Castle


The Lakes District (and the best gingerbread I have ever eaten (too much of)


Hadrian's Wall and Roman Vindolanda Museum and Excavation (active dig) Site


Alnwick Castle and Learning to play Quidditch


Durham Cathedral


York

Correct me please if I have mislabeled anything. A wonderful vacation

Carole

[karen4bells]

Thank you so very much for sharing your wonderful photos!!! I know you had a great time and so happy you were able to visit with a couple of our UK friends!!!! The photos are fantastic!!!

[Rose]

What amazing pictures of what sounds like a fantastic trip!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Carole]

Brilliant photos! It sounds like you had a fantastic time

[Amanda G]

Looks like you had a fabulous trip! Both Bath and Lacock are places we visit often as they aren't too far away from home. Lovely photos!