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Patrick Van Calck Posts: 297 Joined: 28th Jun 2007 Location: Belgium | quotePosted at 08:21 on 3rd June 2009 Hello there !
It's been a while but I have a very good reason. I've been to lovely England at last !!!!! Sadly enough I'm back now |
Ron Brind Posts: 19041 Joined: 26th Oct 2003 Location: England | quotePosted at 08:50 on 3rd June 2009 Will we get to see the pictures Patrick? Hope you had a great time and one that you won't mind talking about here in the forum for the members who haven't yet made it. |
Patrick Van Calck Posts: 297 Joined: 28th Jun 2007 Location: Belgium | quotePosted at 12:53 on 3rd June 2009 It was fabulous !! quite some rain on the first day in the cheddar gorge but the weather was improving every day until it was bloody hot. I've made 779 pictures so lots to choose from. I'll try to put them on "picturesofengland" but I never did that, so... |
Cathy E. Posts: 8474 Joined: 15th Aug 2008 Location: USA | quotePosted at 13:17 on 3rd June 2009 Hi Patrick! So good to have you back! We missed you. Glad you had a smashing trip. Can't wait to see your pictures but with that many I know it will take some time to get them up. |
Jason T Posts: 7421 Joined: 14th Apr 2004 Location: UK | quotePosted at 13:48 on 3rd June 2009 Hi welcome back, so what did you think?? where did you visit? I see Cheddar gorge, its lovely there, did you enjoy your visit? |
Debbie Adams Posts: 2043 Joined: 8th Mar 2009 Location: USA | quotePosted at 14:54 on 3rd June 2009 Hey Patrick !!! Cant wait to see your pix and hear all about your trip i always need more ideas before heading out on mine!!!;-)))))) |
Diana Sinclair Posts: 10119 Joined: 3rd Apr 2008 Location: USA | quotePosted at 16:29 on 3rd June 2009 Welcome back Patrick! I am glad you had a grand time in good ole England; can't wait to see your pictures. |
Patrick Van Calck Posts: 297 Joined: 28th Jun 2007 Location: Belgium | quotePosted at 13:16 on 4th June 2009 I 've never put a picture on the internet so someone has to explain first how to do that! There's a new flight to Bristol (from Eindhoven) so that was handy 'cause it was smack in the middle of the area we wanted to visit. First day we drove to the Cheddar Gorge and travelled immediately through to Dartmoor national park (we stayed in the neighbourhood of Newton Abbott). The moors where the main reason to visit this area after reading 'the hound of the Baskervilles' (twice!) After two days in Dartmoor we popped over to Torquay because my wife wanted to see the sea. Luckily the sun came out from this day on (the other days were cloudy with some rain). We've also visited a very lovely village there called Cockington. The next three days were spent in a lovely B&B near wells. We wanted to visit a few things so stayed there a while. Stourhead, Wilton house, Longleat and Wells were all on the list and were absolutely fabulous ! I definitely wanted to see an English landscape garden so Stourhead was one of my favourite places. The next hotel was in Amesbury. We passed Shaftesbury and Salisbury and on the way to our hotel we visited Stonehenge as well. Sadly enough we'd planned only one day for all this but there's a lot more to see in Salisbury than our guides had mentioned. So one more reason to come back. After Amesbury we stayed three days in amazing Bath, one of the main reasons to visit the area (with the moors) and we finished our visit in Bristol. I hope I didn't make too many mistakes in this short report so you can enjoy it. Edited by: patrick van calck at:4th June 2009 13:17 |
Ruth Gregory Posts: 8072 Joined: 25th Jul 2007 Location: USA | quotePosted at 02:50 on 5th June 2009 Sounds like a great trip, Patrick. I'm glad you got to go. As for posting pictures, click the Submit Pictures link and then follow the prompts. |
Rafal Bartkowiak Posts: 210 Joined: 21st Mar 2009 Location: UK | quotePosted at 16:15 on 5th June 2009 Hi Patrick,I envy you this trip.Some of this places I've seen before but not all of them.It's nice to hear you are happy with the journey.I'm waiting for your photos which you've made a lots.Hope most of them we will see soon. It's really easy to put the pictures to the site so....good luck. If something will not clear,you will not sure what to do or how just ask.It will be pleasure to help you. Rafal . |