Tina and Tony part 3 - Report 2 from to old dart

Report 2 – Roaming from Romsey

Just to wrap up the coswolds ....I meant to mention some of the creativity that went into naming villages in the Cotswolds....(we seem to have lost our map, but some that come to mind follow ..)

Like Upper Slaughter and Lower Slaughter....Upper Rissington, Lower Rissington , Wyck Rissington.....Broughton-on-water and Broughton-on-hill....cant think of the others at moment.. 

Brugge...or Brugse....(Belgium)

In a nutshell, Brugge is very old, very beautiful, very clean streets, no graffiti, didn’t see ANY sign of police, (cars or otherwise), no above ground power lines, bikes everywhere....no helmuts to be seem, and the city canals are really great ..

AND a heap of bloody tourists !!

I am sure that the TGE will report in more detail

BEER is a big part of life in Brugge...its almost religious....after all about 90% of the population are RC

There are over 300 beer producers.....said to be over 800 different beers . The Trappist Monks are still the biggest single producer...and most of their beers are between 8 and 12 % !!!

After a lot of research, I decided that Brugse Zot was the best of the local beers ....in fact quite acceptable...

London Town

Last Sunday and again yesterday and today we spend in London.....still a special place for me.

Last Sunday the four of us and Soloman went up and back in the day....met Janine Mitchell and her husband and their two kids....did a Tames river cruise up to Geenwich....the history still amazes....Did you know that St Paul’s is 365 feet tall...one foot for each day of the year...or that the “City of London” is the small capital city in the western world - only one mile square ???...(The city of Westminister must be one of the biggest...)

Yesterday the four of us caught the train up on a special 10 pound deal and stayed the night at a hotel just off Oxford St ...very flash...and not too exie. Last night we went to see “the Mousetrap” (Agatha Christie)....its the longest running show ever....just 60 years. Good fun

Today mum and I did a full tour of the State Rooms at Buckingham Palace .....just fantastic . We then had lunch with Claire and Andy at the Grenadeers Pub in the back streets of Knightsbridge...only 400 years old and hasn’t changed too much.

Must finish...tomorrow we are going to Salsbury to meet up with Denis and Trish Cortese for a couple of hours

Done

Dad or Tony