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 | 662.BORTHWICK CASTLEThis is a WONDOERFUL Castle and our stay here was one of the highlights of our trip.
If you go to Scotland YOU MUST stay over at a castle one night and this is the castle to choose.
Borthwick caslte is located very near Edinburgh.
There are LOTS of castles to see in Scotland and some you can even stay at.
However, Borthwick Castle is KNOWN for it's FANTASTIC hospitality and unique history.
When staying at the castle you are offered a tour.
It is also documented that Mary Queen of Scots had stayed
at this same castle and later escaped from it.
I promise if you stay at Borthwick Castle it will be a wonderful and lasting experience for you.
CLICK HERE to visit the Borthwick Castle website for more information on it's history.
You can also inquire about staying at this unique castle.
(Make sure you click the "show all" button at the bottom of
this page to see ALL the photos we took at the castle.)
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 | 669.JEDBURGH ABBEYOn can see that Jedburgh Abbey was a large and impressive Abbey at one time. We liked visiting it too since it had a small but interesting museum at the entrance to the abbey itself. Unfortunately, it was threatening to rain while we were at the abbey and our
photos appear somewhat dark. Luckily, we never had any rain fall on us.
Do look at the last few photos here too. Maybe you can figure out what
caused the whites spots that appear on these photos. We are puzzled as to what
might have caused these small spots to show up on our digital photos.
CLICK HERE to read more about Jedburgh Abbey.
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 | 670.POOH COUNTRY "POOH COUNTRY the best PLACE IN THE WHOLE WORLD!"
"Well, that is if you ask us."
This was our second visit to Pooh Sticks Bridge.
The last time we visited was wintertime, 2002. Dennis, at the time,
was not able to reach the bridge and ALWAYS regretted it.
So our trip to the UK just had to include a visit back to the bridge.
This time NO SNOW to get in the way of getting to it either.
FYI......Sorry, we did not take as many photos as we did in 2002.
So if you want THE REAL ADVENTURE IN POOH COUNTRY you need to visit our 2002 album.
"However, we did capture pooh on film in the 500 acres woods, really we did!"
THANKS FOR BOUNCING IN! (^..^)
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 | 674.Sept 3After eating at the 'Original Pantry Cafe' in LA, we headed back to San Diego. We decided since it was early we'd head to La Jolla and see seal beach like we did last time. This time around though Seal Beach was a children's beach, so there were no seals to be seen :-( We watched the sunset from our own little private beach. No one was around because it was hard to get to (you had to brave the huge waves to get to it). it was great watching the sun set over the pacific ocean, absolutely gorgeous. | |
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 | 675.Chile 2006 - Santiago & ValparaisoWe sandwiched our 2-night stay in Santiago between the Patagonian portion of our trip and our Easter Island sojourn. We left our 2-night stay in Vina del Mar/Valparaiso for the end our trip.
Santiago, the capital of Chile, was a modern city with a modest amount of older, colonial buildings. The highlight of our stay was a lunch-time trip to the central fish market and a wander through the city's marvelous pre-Columbian museum.
Valparaiso is a hillside wonder hugging the mountainous Chilean Pacific coast. Century-old “ascensores” (cable cars) deliver you to tops of many of the city’s numerous “cerros” (hills) so that you can wander among the tumble of riotously colored buildings that cling to the city’s slopes.
It is hard to imagine that this country - less than 20 years ago - was in the grips of one of the continent’s most repressive dictatorships (Pinochet). Now it seems like a country of worker bees – the most North American of the South American countries we have visited. | |
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