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There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
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If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
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What a nice time wandering around town. Maybe they only do it on market days, but I love towns/cities that have a pedestrian-only street.
I love that too. I'll never forget being able to wander around Bordeaux when we visited there in September 2010. They only do pedestrian days on the first Sunday of the month, so it was such a treat and so lucky we were there for that. I dread to think what it's like with all the cars....
The Abbey Gardens are so beautiful! Can't believe what great weather you had on your first day. Love the pedestrian streets with all the small shops and personal touches! Just so welcoming!
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The Abbey Gardens are so beautiful! Can't believe what great weather you had on your first day. Love the pedestrian streets with all the small shops and personal touches! Just so welcoming!
We were very lucky with the weather throughout this trip, with only one really bad day. Considering that our weather can be notoriously unreliable and often wet, we thought that was a great result!
Saturday 3 May – part three: “the New Forest is known for its cows”
Although the weather probably looks gorgeous in all the photos taken so far in this trip report, the truth is it wasn’t that warm at all. If you were out of the sun, it was actually decidedly cold, so I suggested we go into the café in the Guildhall to get a hot chocolate. I wasn’t expecting the place to be so big or so airy inside…
As well as our hot chocolates…..
… we also both got ourselves a treat…
We both said what we’d got was very rich and filling.
When we came out, we wandered along Abbey Passage (we loved the name! ) as we’d seen a tour group stop to look at this…
Mark suggested we carry on, as it was in the direction of the car park, and sure enough, there was an entrance straight on to it.
We headed out of Winchester, getting some final shots as we did…
… then we were back on the motorway. I have to say I’ve always loved this section of the M3. It’s very dramatic.
Soon we were coming to the section where it branches off to the M27, and according to Mark who’s worked down this neck of the woods, it’s always like this…
It was a bit freaky to see this….
…. And ironically we’d be seeing another one of these later in the day.
Fortunately, everything was soon flowing freely again and it wasn’t long until we were in the New Forest. This is an expanse of woodlands and heath and is the largest unenclosed land in southern Britain. It’s home to one of the few primeval oak woods in England and was a popular place for the Norman kings to go hunting in the 11th and 12th centuries. In fact, King William II was killed here in a hunting accident in 1100.
Now I know the New Forest for its ponies, but Mark assured me there were cows too, and it wasn’t long before we found some. Unfortunately, the sun was just in the wrong place, so I couldn’t snag any photos, but I was just happy to have seen them!
However, I did manage to get a shot of this one, and yes he’s literally grazing along the side of the road, with no fence between him and the cars… Can you see him? He's on the grass verge almost in the middle of the photo...
I also got some other shots as we made our way through the New Forest. It’s a very pretty area.
Next: looking at these, how did the car ever take off?
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I'll never forget being able to wander around Bordeaux when we visited there in September 2010. They only do pedestrian days on the first Sunday of the month, so it was such a treat and so lucky we were there for that. I dread to think what it's like with all the cars....
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Can't believe what great weather you had on your first day. Love the pedestrian streets with all the small shops and personal touches! 
If you were out of the sun, it was actually decidedly cold, so I suggested we go into the café in the Guildhall to get a hot chocolate. I wasn’t expecting the place to be so big or so airy inside… 
Unfortunately, the sun was just in the wrong place, so I couldn’t snag any photos, but I was just happy to have seen them! 
Can you see him? He's on the grass verge almost in the middle of the photo... 
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