Howdy folks, I know
its been a while so I apologize for being a bad friend and an even worse
blogger (don’t know if I can call myself that).
Work has been crazy since I got back with long days in front of a
computer so the last thing I have wanted to do is stare at it some more to
write a blog.
So rather than tell
you really long stories about what I have been doing for the past month, I thought
I would give some one liners (or close to it) to fill you in on my trip. Sadly the next couple of trips will be alone so if any one fancies a trip over, i would always love company :)
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My
folks came to visit right after I arrived back in the UK and I took 5 days off
to galavant around with them. here was
our itinerary
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Day
1: walk around chester
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Day
2: folks went down to London without me, dad got his wallet stolen in the tube,
and then took a train over to bath to spend the night
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Day
3: Met them in bath and then drove to the cotswolds. Hiked around chipping Camden to find some
view of the cotswolds.
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Day
4: Drove to Stratford upon avon (shakespeares home) and then warwick
castle. We skipped going in the castle
because it was £25/person and seemed more like an amusement park than a castle.
Drove back to chester late Friday night
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Day
5: Drover over to North Wales to check out 2 castles and climb up mount snowdon. Only got 1/3 of the way up but after walking
down the very steep hill backwards my calves ached for days
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Day
6: Drove to the lake district and followed a rick steves driving tour of the
lake district. Absolutely beautiful
scenery on top of a windy and very steep two lane road that was barely wide
enough for one Headed up to Edinburgh that
night
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Day
7: Toured around Edinburgh, saw the castle, got my shopping fix with my mother
(so wonderful!)
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Day
8: drove back to Chester to see the Olympic torch come through town, somewhat uneventful
but at least I can say I saw the Olympic torch
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It
has been raining and cold here so one weekend when it was especially miserable,
I read 4 books and one day I didn’t even leave the apartment till 5pm J im addicted
to the janet evanovich Stephanie plum series, I find myself laughing out loud
quite often.
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Last
week was the queens jubilee but instead of enjoying the 2 day bank holidays, I worked
L went into
the town center one day for lunch and it was the worst decision of the day. Went to 3 places to find something appetizing
and then stumbled into mcdonalds. There
had to be 200 people in there and a line of 50 people. After waiting 20 minutes, I got my food and
it tasted like crap. The fries never
taste the same as they do drunk or hungover
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Had
to go on a site visit outside of Marseille but it was a nice excuse to take a
holiday in the south of France.
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Day
1: Went to dinner with my coworker and his wife in Aix en Provence. Very cute city with tons of outdoor
restaurants. The French women truly know
how to dress, I just wanted to stare at their outfits all day. Ended the night off with some fabulous
pistachio gelato, so good!
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Day
2 (Friday night): Drove to the city of Cassis which is an old port town right
on the water. The views were amazing
because the city sits right at the bottom of a cliff. I sat next to an American couple on their
honeymoon, he was an Engineer who had worked in Texas and she just graduated
Harvard Med. They were so wonderful to
talk to!! They told me about this drive,
Route de Crete, which took you on the windy road up the cliff and overlooked
the city. Did I mention my rental car
was an Audi A1??! Yea I enjoyed that
drive and not just for the scenery J
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This
weekend I am heading to Cambridge and Windsor castle. It’s a 3 hour drive so I booked a B&B 2
miles outside of Cambridge. I figured I would
rather not drive 6 hours in one day. Now
I just have to cross my fingers it doesn’t rain.
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I
also booked a trip for 2 weekends from now to Guernsey island. It is part of the Channel islands off the
coast of France, they are English islands but with very French roots. (Jersey is the other island which is where people
came from to start New Jersey) Its going to be an expensive trip but everything
I hear and read aobut the island sounds wonderful. And my bosses wife is from there and just
happens to be visiting right now so she offered to show me around. Why not!?
Well that’s my life
right now in a nutshell. I leave you
with a few pictures from my parents trip.
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| My dad and I in Chester, zoom in to read the sign! |
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| Mom and I on the shore at one of the lakes in North lake district |
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| More of the Lake District, isnt it amazing?! |
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| Edniburgh Castle - will have to go inside when Moira comes |
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