Vacation
"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
Just been vacationing in England with my family. Two weeks away from work. It was just terrific. The weather was perfect, scorching at times. But, it's way better that way than rain, which is not unusual in England. Anyway, everything worked out great. First week we stayed in a cottage near Minehead, which is situated in Somerset, located on Bristol Channel. The scenery was just awesome, rolling country dotted with small villages, medieval at times. The National Trust does a good job over there. Highest point in Exmoor National Park, which makes up a large part of Somerset, is Dunkery Hill at 519 m which gives you an estimate of what the country looks like. Our routine was sleeping in, swimming, and then do some sightseeing. Which actually suited us very well, what with the heat and so on. Second week we stayed in a cottage not too far from London, near Dorking. One of the highlights was a visit to London, of course, we couldn't leave that out. Did the London Eye, the big wheel which presents you with a great view of the city. Actually, we also walked quite a lot, Whitehall, Oxford Street and from there on to Hyde Park. Back with the bus to Piccadilly, on the way we visited a few CD stores, which turned out to be huge, but not cheap. Anyway, as we noticed, time flies, so the day ended soon enough. Another highlight was visiting a good friend of us. Margot, my wife , met Chris, some 30 years ago when she worked in Dorking for half a year. They kept in touch, and a couple of months ago we received an invitiation to attend her marriage. Which happened to take place at the day we were supposed to leave for home again. Which raises the question: Is that coincidence or was it meant to be? After the service we headed back to Dover. And then it was over again. We'd seen a lot, done a lot, and been to places. As far as we're concerned England is one of our favorite countries to go to. Besides vacationing one of the things I like to do is take pictures. The shots you see here aren't straight shots as you can maybe guess. They're "blended" pictures. The bottom one is Dunster Castle, the top one Cleeve Abbey. The one of Cleeve Abbey has a bit of a surrealistic quality I think. Please bear with me in the future when I keep posting stuff like you see here. TIA.