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Cabot Tower

Welcome to Bristol

After close to 24 hours of travel we arrived in Bristol

Temple Mead Train Station

Cabot Tower - right behind our hotel

Our Flat - Berkley Square

View from our room

First night in Bristol - Discovering the waterfront

St. Mary Radcliffe Church

Oldest Bar in Bristol

Love this phrasing

Live the concept of these books - I wish I knew about them when the kids were small

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Ashton Gate Stadium

Women’s Rugby World Cup, Semi-final 1 - Canada versus New Zealand

Player of the game.

Canada wins, 34-19.

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Bristol

Blackbeard Banksy Tour - Out and About in Bristol

Bristol Cathedral

Bristol Choir School

Banksy Art on the side of the Library

Bristol Library

Front of Bristol City Hall

Bristol City Hall

College Green to Wills Memorial Building

Wills Memorial Building -

University of Bristol

Bristol Art Gallery

Banksy’s Hung Lover

COVID Art - support for the bar and restaurant industry

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Cabot Statue - removed and new plaque acknowledging his full history acknowledged

Silver Back Studios - check out all those Golden Globes

Check out that tree - growing up and down from a crack in the wall

Living art alley

2021 Mural project

Entrance to the Old City

Old City Hotel

Unicorns are in the City Crest

The Corn Exchange - clock that shows the original time of Bristol, about 11 minutes off of London. Before trains every clock was set to their high noon.

Only mural by a female artist - about to be torn down with building regentrification

Site of the first bridge in Bristol -in the background, WWII bombed Church, the shell stands as a memorial to innicdnt people who die in wars

First English fish and chips

Along the Avon - Funny fact Avon means ‘river’ so the Avon River is really the River River

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Cabot Tower

Cabot Tower and Brandon Hill Park

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Ashton Gate Stadium

Women’s Rugby World Cup, Semi-final 2 - England vs. France

England wins 35-17.

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Cardiff

Cardiff, Wales

Central Cardiff

Cardiff Stadium

Cardiff Waterfront

Wales Millenium Centre

Pierhead Building

The Senedd - State Parliament

Cardiff Coal History

Roald Dahl Public Art

Cardiff Castle

Inside the Castle Clock Tower

The winter smoking room

The party too hard, sleep it off room

This bathtub is made from a Roman carsofagus

The summer smoking room

Check out the mouse and the squirrel

The servants quarters

The bell room

Looking out over the City

The main house

Is that a dog in that suit of armour?

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Stonehenge

Stonehenge -photos circling the site

We walked into the site from the visitor centre. Campers were lined up along roads in all directions.

Replica structure people would have lived in when building Stonehenge.

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Avebury Henge and Stone Circles

Avebury Henge

A henge means the stones are surrounded by a ditch and then a mound. Avebury Henge aligns with this definition. Stonehenge is a mound then a ditch therefore not accurate to the definition of henge.

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Cotswold District

Cotswolds

Town of Upavon

Houses with thatched roofs need to keep a thatched roof. Therefore thatching is still a career as there are over 200,000 homes in the UK that have a thatched roof.

Town of Lacock

Municipal building

Town of Castle Combe

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18 Pembridge Gardens, London W2 4DU, UK

We Made it to London

Our Flat - 18 Pembridge Gardens

View from our apartment

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Bath

Bath

The Roman Baths

The Bath Abby

Bath Honoured Authors

Jane Austen Centre

Mary Shelley House of Frankenstein

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River Thames

First Day in London

The National Gallery

Trafalgar Square

Nelson’s Column

The Royal Mounted Guard House

Women’s World War II Memorial

Downing Street

Cabinet War Rooms

Big Ben

Parliament Square Garden

Winston Churchill Statue

Millicent Garret Fawcett Statue

St. Margaret’s Church in the front

Westminster Abbey in behind

Out on the River Thames

The London Eye and

Palace of Westminster

Tower Bridge

London Tower

West on the Thames from Tower Bridge

The Shard - tallest building in England. Was the tallest in the world when it was built.

The walkway stone mimicks the rippling of the Thames

Cleopatra’s Needle

Love the floral details on this building.

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Buckingham Palace

London Day 2

Kensington Gardens

Diana Memorial Statue

Kensington Palace

The Kensington Gardens Swan Pond - the swans have been much happier since the airators have been installed.

Royal Albert Hall

Royal Albert Memorial

Hyde Park

Chris spotted these birds in the trees. Amazing their colour match to the leaves.

Buckingham Pallace

St. Paul’s Cathedral (Diana and Charles were mated here)

First Hard Rock Cafe - 1971

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Palace of Westminster

London at Night

Palace of Westminster

Palace of Westminster and the London Eye

Westminster Abbey

Marble Arch

Hamley’s - biggest toy store in the world (7 floors)

Regent Street - blending of old and new

Canada House

National Art Gallery

St. Paul’s Cathedral

Tower Bridge - from London Bridge

Southwark Bridge - from London Bridge

The Shard

Tower Castle and the Shard

These chairs were so comfy.

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Portobello Road Market

Around Notting Hill

Portobello Road Market

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Holland Park

Holland Park Neighborhood

Kyoto Garden

Daisy Green at Holland Park

Opera Holland Park

The Design Museum

Bethan Laura Wood Exhibition

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Allianz Stadium

Women’s Ruby World Cup Finals

A packed stadium, 81,885 people attended the game.

Bronze Medal Final - France vs New Zealand

New Zealand winning 42-26

Gold Medal Final - Canada vs. England

England winning 33-13

Braxton Sorensen McGee Breakthrough Player of the Year (New Zealand)

Sophie de Goede Player of the Year (Canada)

The Silver Medalists

The Champs