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Sara & Garry @ Eiffel Tower |
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Garry & Rob Cleminson, Lora's father in law in front of the Green Lantern Greek restaurant in central London where he treated us to a feast that left us barely able to waddle away. |
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Garry stands next to a Morris Mini - not the smallest car we saw. |
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Lyn-always foreword thinking |
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Two strikingly handsome and charming thespians in Stratford-on-Avon preparing for the late Shakespeare plays-"The Tempest", "A Winter's Tale" and "Pericles". Their ambitions are to play King Lear and Hamlet, respectively. |
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These local children enjoy feeding the swans at Stratford- on- Avon |
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Barry Duckett, a retired waterman still enjoys fishing in the citified canal in Rotherhithe. He remembers the huge lumber terminals at "Canada Water" now replaced by hi-rise apartments |
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"Skinner's Rats" Barry, Peter, and Ian, a shanty group that provided some of the entertainment at the Rotherhithe neighborhood festival |
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The Royal Observatory in London |
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Swan's nest on our neighborhood canal at Rotherhithe in London |
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A traditional rope worker near Warick |
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Graham of Frog Island Brewery in Northampton |
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Valhalla- headed for Baja in Mexico from St.Helens, Oregon |
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Two Camden Town cuties brightened our visit with their smiles |
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Shellback chorus friends at the Black Diamond Folk Club in Birmingham |
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Tom's old friends Andy & Jenny Binfield join us for the Portsmouth Shantymen concert at Neubold |
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Pam, our van driver and moorage scout strikes a "Sacajawea" pose |
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Caroline - an able hand |
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From left:Molly, Mary, Lyn, Sara, Garry, Carolyn, Stuart, Mac |
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Cows along the canal enjoy an evening drink near the "Dog & Doublet" |
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We enjoy a feast of Chinese take-out aboard the Weaver- Pam. Tom, Molly. Caroline & Mary |
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Mac & Garry singing aboard the boat |
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Sara @ the Dog & Doublet Pub before we ventured by van back to Birmingham for a folk club evening at the Turk's Head |
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Our canal boats-Tame Valley and Weaver Valley moored in Birmingham. |
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We traveled a lot by tube in London. This terminal was a frequent connecting station. "London Bridge" is now in Arizona |
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"Elephant and Castle " along the canal. Sorry to say we did not make it to this one. (The one in London is now a sports bar-very modern and a big disappointment) |
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A single lock along a canal. Cast Iron bridge in the background |
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Friends hanging out at a canal side park in Camden Town |
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We shared a table along the Thames at Spice Island across the street from our hostel |
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Garry's niece Lora and her family invited us to their home in Sussex for a back yard barbecue. |
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The Town Crier to the Mayor of London came by our Hostel in Rotherhithe during it's neighborhood festival. |
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Jamacian food in England at the Warwick Folk Festival -I am still dreaming about charcoal grilled chicken and succulent mutton stew over rice. |
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GOING IN 'STILE' our access from our moorage to Public Transportation along the main road into Warwick for the folk festival. |
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Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery's garter banner hangs outside the Chapel of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in St. Mary's Church in Warwick. |
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The Belner's of Indiana-our canal pals: Stuart,Mac.&Molly |
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A dad teaches his boys how to fish from the banks of the Willamette River, minutes from downtown Portland, Oregon |
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Charlie Girl takes her people to Tryon Creek park a few miles from our home on a day in early spring. |
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An emergency dental care need landed a merchant seaman from the Phillipines ashore in Portland Oregon. Due to Rose Festival, many major streets were closed to traffic, so we drove through the east side neighborhoods of Portland, Oregon. He remarked at the beauty as we passed by yard after yard of beautiful flowers, especially the roses, which are everywhere, including the parking lot borders. He said he missed his wife and children at home, and he wished he could share the beauty with them. We paused at the Peninsula Park Rose Garden for this photo opportunity on the way back to his ship. He is home now with his family. |
| Fishing the Columbia River one evening at the public dock in St.Helens. This baby sturgeon has great grampas that are as long as 22 feet and hundreds of years old. |
| Big Ben from Westminster Pier in London |
| The River Avon at Bath near Poultny Bridge. Our first look at canal boats, but not our last. We enjoyed the view while relaxing in the gaily stripped lawn chairs. |
| "Hark! I hear a choir of angels!" I said. The angels turned out to be part of a choir from South Africa in Bath, England for a competition, walking down the limestone streets and singing for the joy of it. |
| Three Blokes from Bath. We met at the pub across the street from the Bath train station, and shared our trip back to London with them as far as their home in the next town. |
| From our first glance in Bath, we found the canals have a quiet beauty all their own throughout the midlands of England. |