Southern Cornwall
We have positioned ourselves in the city of Truro in central Cornwall for the next week as a base for exploring the area. This is the capital Cornwall with a cathedral (only finished in 1911) and a popular shopping centre. We choose to stay here because of its centrality – only 30 to 40 minutes […]
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Arriving in Cornwall
Our time in Exeter ia over and today, we drove on to Truro in Cornwall. We will spend the next week here exploring the county. Our travel was less than 100 miles for the entire day, so we set our GPS on a much more adventurous setting – not the fastest route or the shortest […]
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A Feast of National Trust Properties in Devon
For the last two days, we have been travelling through the beautiful rolling hills of Dorset. We left our hotel in Salisbury and drove through some lovely country roads and lanes and by late morning we had reached the village of Cerne Abbas. One thing really surprised me. I have always associated red double decker […]
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Stourhead – A Gorgeous Garden and Estate
Today, is our final day in Wiltshire and the end of our exploration of this beautiful region of England. We visited the outstanding gardens of Stourhead – the last remaining place we had yet to see in this region. Stourhead is a 1,072-hectare estate at the source of the River Stour near Mere, Wiltshire and […]
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Two Historic Wiltshire Towns
Our explorations around Wiltshire took us toward the west of the county today as we travelled to the historic towns of Bradford On Avon and Warminster. The easiest roads on which to drive around here are the ‘A” class roads. They are broad highways with lane makings and a good way to get between places […]
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There are a number of things that make the cathedral in Winchester different from the one that we visited in Salisbury. For a start, the Winchester Cathedral has had a song written about it and it has a Norman tower rather than a spire. But, every church could probably find something unique in it – […]
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Neolithic Monuments and Other Structures
Just a few miles to the west of our hotel is Stonehenge. As you drive along the road, it appears magically on the hillside – a collection of easily identifiable rocks, arranged in a circle and standing out against the bright green grass of the hillside. They looked grey as we drove past but they […]
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Old Friends and Old Places
Over the past two days, we have been busy time catching up with old friends and visiting old places. We stopped for our first night at a hotel near Windsor which was only 30 minutes, or so, from Heathrow. We enjoyed a hot shower and were ready for an early night after travelling 26 hours […]
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Travelling to London
I’m writing this on a plane somewhere over Iran on our way to London (but uploading it after we arrive at Heathrow). We were due to leave Melbourne for London at midnight on Monday night but were delayed by over two hours because of a technical fault with our plane. Apparently, one of the 28 […]
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The Wedding of the Year
On Sunday, we had great delight in attending the wedding of my nephew Robin Wilson to Larissa Wolf-Tasker in Daylesford. Robin is my younger brother’a son. Larissa’s parents Allan and All Wolf-Tasker own (and run) the Lake House Boutique hotel and restaurant in Daylesford Robin, of course, was turned out more resplendently than I […]
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Our Last Day at Uluru
We used our last day (Saturday) at Uluru to do all the remaining activities that we had planned in our travel schedule. After breakfast, Cathy and I set off to walk the last three kilometres around Uluru and finish our circumnavigation of the rock. Thinking of it in terms of a clock, we began at […]
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Our Yulara Activities
We’ve been really enjoying our time here at Yulara with Cathy, Audrey and Violet. Yulara is a relatively new town with a permanent population of around 890. It’s right in the middle of nowhere. Its name is derived from local Aboriginal words for ‘howling’ and ‘dingos’. Around 18 kilometres by road from world heritage site […]
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