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Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
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sounds like you are having a wonderful trip so far - sorry the rain spoiled some stuff but still looks like you adapted just fine.
Continued safe travels.
We've had an absolutely wonderful time at the Thermae Bath Spa - everything I hoped for and more, and even better Mark really enjoyed it, as he was a bit sceptical about how much he'd like it.
We had a stroll around Bath first, then spent much of the day at the spa, enjoying the rooftop pool, basement pool, steam rooms and having our very relaxing treatments. Ah - this is the life!
We're off out shortly to meet up with our friends for dinner - can't wait to see them again.
Like the little tidbits you're giving us about your ongoing trip! Too bad the rain spoiled some of your plans! Glad you had back ups!
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
My TR from my most recent trip is now underway. Includes: Universal Studios Florida, Disney World and Sea World Orlando Trifecta TR -Updated December 10th! TR is now COMPLETED!
A very short update tonight, as where we are, Internet is not good and it may drop out at any moment.
We've had a great day at the Cheddar Gorge caves and then SS Great Britain in Bristol. Thankfully the forecast from a couple of days ago (tipping rain all day) was wrong, and although there was some rain, it was generally only when we were driving.
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Ok, well we are now home and wow what a last day it was! You seriously will not believe the photos I got on safari at Longleat earlier - we've never seen anything like it and both said it puts Kilimanjaro Safaris to shame.
As I've got quite a lot of the trip report written up while we were gone, I'm going to go straight ahead and start it now...
Saturday 3 May – part one: what do you mean it’s closed?
It was a much earlier start to our vacation than I had envisaged, as I woke up at 5:50am… good grief, that’s even earlier than on weekdays! I did try to go back to sleep, but failed, so I figured I might as well make the most of it and get up… at least then I could watch a bit more classic Doctor Who on the Horror Channel. Honestly, that is such a treat, as while I adore the new Doctor Who, pretty much ever since it returned to our screens in 2005, they haven’t shown anything from the classic series, which ran from 1963-1989. They used to show it all the time, and it’s wonderful to be able to rediscover it again.
We set off just before 9:00am, which was roughly when I was hoping to get on the road. As you can see, it was a beautiful day out…
It was pretty quiet on the roads, even on the usually notorious M25. I tell you, it’s so much easier to leave on the Saturday morning of a three day weekend, rather than the Friday night, as I’d guarantee that would’ve been a lot busier.
There were some beautiful colours in the trees…
Soon we were nearing our first destination for the day…
On the way into Winchester, we met a guy on a real mission, who nearly had an accident with us and some other cars. Honestly, he was obviously late for something, but as Mark said, it was the dog he felt sorry for, who was in the back of the car getting flung around.
We made our way into Winchester, and as you can see, it looked like a beautiful place…
We tried the car park right by the cathedral, and after one circuit and discovering it was full, Mark’s parking fairy was once again on hand to bring him luck, and he managed to get a space. I know I’ve said this before, and doubtless I will again, but he is so lucky when it comes to parking. He can always get a space, while I never can.
I did a double take at the parking rate - £1.30 (c. $2.20) for an hour. Wow, and we moan about parking where we live – and it’s considerably less than that.
We headed over the road and towards the cathedral. The first church on this site was built in 648, but the present building we can see today was only started in 1079, with changes and additions made right up to the 16th century. Originally, it was a Benedictine monastery.
It was a beautiful place, but this was as much as we’d see of it, as when we got there, there was a sign saying that it was closed to visitors until 12:45pm and it was only 10:30am now. We think, judging by some of the outfits we saw people wearing that it was a wedding, so I guess it’s understandable.
We found this, which had a nice Olympic link, as he’s holding the London 2012 torch…
We had a look in the gift shop nearby, but didn’t find anything in there. We did find this, which was interesting…
Then we headed out, seeing some of the various war memorials on the way…
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Hopefully you'll enjoy this one when it gets underway! 
Glad you had back ups! 
and it may drop out at any moment. 
I did try to go back to sleep, but failed, so I figured I might as well make the most of it and get up… at least then I could watch a bit more classic Doctor Who on the Horror Channel. 
Honestly, that is such a treat, as while I adore the new Doctor Who, pretty much ever since it returned to our screens in 2005, they haven’t shown anything from the classic series, which ran from 1963-1989. They used to show it all the time, and it’s wonderful to be able to rediscover it again. 
Wow, and we moan about parking where we live – and it’s considerably less than that. 
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