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We will be glad to get back to train travel after the travails of deciphering the AA Road Atlas,negotiating the intermnable number of roundabouts and getting lost inumberable times. As it is taking 3X as long to travel the same distance it would at home we have had to modify the itinerary somewhat. We have travelled the lanes and hedgerows of Kent and Sussex, visited some great gardens (Sissinghurst and Great Dixter) and a medieval manor house(Igtham Mote) and Bodian Castle....as well as visiting the seaside "idyll" Of the Burnes-Jones's and their nephew Rudyard at Rottingdean. The car,however,has enabled us to visit Batemans (Rudyard Kipling),the amazing Charleston (Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant),Chawton(Jane Austen) and Selborne(1700's naturalist Gilbert White) ....so the trauma of driving in a strange and very busy place has it's benefits.....The English are very polite drivers and lessen the difficulty of the whole thing. We are in Bath now for a whole day and will take up the Mayor's offer(she/he sponsors these each day) of a free walking tour this morning, despite the rain that has just started to fall....and then on to the Roman Baths..... Sorry no photos as yet...still trying to work that out..Kathxo
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ReplyDeleteWhat interesting places you are seeing - I'm enjoying the read thoroughly. Thanks for taking the time to post these blogs, Kath.
ReplyDeleteHope you like Bath as much as I did...there is a lunatic bus driver who will take you to Stonehenge -for a fee of course- worth going with him, because he is a good driver and slightly mad- in a good way of course. Hope you don't die of too much boredom when you return.
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