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| George's father made his first ever overseas visit in August, 2007, when he came to see us in England. Here are some of the photos from the two-week, action packed visit. |
 Dad enjoyed seeing really old things, like this graveyard. |
 The first of many homemade desserts we had, including blueberries we grew ourselves. |
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 The grave of Alice (in Wonderland) Liddell Hargreaves |
 Here we are at Salisbury Cathedral |
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 We took Dad to our favourite mushroom hunting spot in the New Forest. He was most impressed by British fences. |
 Knightwood Oak, the largest tree in the New Forest, over 400 years old |
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 The Perseids meteor shower coincided with this visit. Nick and I returned to the forest to lie on our new National Trust blanket and watch the show in the night sky above us. |
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 Dad's favourite activity was buying stuff at the boot sale and selling it on Ebay back home. We had fun watching the bids accumulate over the week |
A stained glass window designed by Rossetti |
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 On a search for strawberries, we ended up at the beach. |
 Sailboats with the Isle of Wight in the background |
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 A mysterious old tree in Windsor Great Park |
 Windsor Castle in the background |
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 A photo of the school boys at Eton, in their end of term waistcoats. I like the Superman one in the middle! |
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 A well lit angel in one of the many cathedrals |
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 Outside Winchester's water mill |
 Dad befriended every angler he found. |
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 The ancient medieval walls of our own hometown |
 An art installation in the medieval vault. You wrote your dream on a piece of paper, then tried to land it in the cauldron to get your wish. I missed. |
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 Walking beside the Tower of London |
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 A beefeater poses with an unknown tourist |
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 Nick's mother was caught up in the flooding. We were impressed by the timing of this girl's shirt. |
 One of Anthony Gormley's 31 life sized statues that make up his Event Horizon series in London |
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 Having drinks in a Portobello Road pub |
 As you can see, Bill Clinton woz 'ere. |
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 One of Klaus Weber's wonderful sculpture group, called The Big Giving, at the South Bank Centre. Sadly, this exhibit is only temporary. |
 We had a wonderful view of Portobello Road from the terrace of a below average Thai restaurant. From our perch, we witnessed the human drama pictured below. |
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 Someone had left a hardback book on a pillar outside this shop. We watched several people come buy and look at the book, wondering if anyone would actually take it. This man spend a long time deliberating, while his wife waited, then looked around to see if anyone was watching (we were) and put the book into his baby buggy. When I got home and looked at the photo, I discovered that the book was England Without Richard, by John T. Appleby, which was listed for over $30 on an antique book site. |
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 A cute way of advertising |
 We found a riverside pub on Dad's quest for trout. |
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 Dad at Nick's mother's birthday barbecue |
 Nick, on the same day |
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 Forget cathedrals, Stonehenge, and classic artwork, my father's favourite sight was the trout in the clear waters of the Test River. |
 At a Mottisfont Abbey, a National Trust property |
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 The English countryside |
 Outside the Abbey |
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 English pillarboxes from different eras |
 I had waited months to make pancakes with our own blueberries, which we had one weekend morning |
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Our course, no web page is complete without photos of the cute men we've seen. Click HERE to make them bigger. |
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