Friday, May 13, 2011

England Pictures Part 1

Our hotel in Paris has free internet!  Here are some pictures of the first leg of our journey.

Self portrait at the Calgary airport.

First views of England.  Love at first sight.  They have tunnels made of trees!!!!

Freya's show jumping run on Sunday afternoon.

We have no pictures of shopping in Tunbridge Wells because I wasn't a good tourist and didn't even think of bringing the camera!  This is the Hawhurst Library where we had an hour of internet time to make the last post.

Tuesday at the sea side in Eastbourne.  On the pier behind us was a glass figurine shop and the guy was making them.  It was so neat to see!

Eastbourne had a Next and we spied this long jean skirt for you Molly.  I hope you like it!

We made a quick stop at the ruins of Pevensey Castle.

And then arrived at Hastings, another sea side town.  This is a really cool tram that goes up the side of a cliff.

Another stop on the way back was at the Hawkhurst fish farm.  It was really sunny!

Wednesday morning we took a walk to the Hawkhurst golf course to see if we could play.  We weren't allowed to golf in runners so we settled for a couple pictures.

In the afternoon, David and Joan dropped us off to explore the Bodiam Castle.  It looks exactly like you picture a castle should be.  Complete with a very wide moat.

On Thursday we got up at 5am to get to London to catch our train to Paris.  This is at the London train station.

And now we're in Paris.  Lots to say about Paris so I'll leave that for another night.  We're getting up early to people-watch tomorrow morning before catching our train back to England!

3 comments:

  1. I spy a M&S express!!! Another one of my favourites in England. Sure wish I was there. Glad you are suitably impressed and keeping warm. Have to wonder about winter boots at the seaside though, Laura!! Expect you entertained some "people watchers".

    M.U.M.

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  2. What! I like the boots! I like the pictures. I like Loofy's smiles. I like the weather! I like that you're having fun.
    J'aime.

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  3. nice post!
    lovely jean skirt....thanks.
    hope your drive up the motorway is going good!!!
    molly

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