Europe 2011

I was away for 5 weeks but only paid for accommodation once (Oslo), this is so not surprising, as the places I went to I did so to catch up with people.

Apart from Beck and Paul and Maritza, Volker and Anke, everybody else I met, I had not seen in well over four years. It has been said that people don't change, they just become more so. While much time can pass between catching up, sometimes it is good that people don't change that much.

Market Harborough, UK

Friday, 29th April, 2010 After 10 hours in the air, I stopped over at Dubai for 10 hours and another 10 hours to the UK. I arrived at Birmingham Airport where my sister, Rebecca, picked me up and drove home to her place in Market Harborough. As is visible in most of the photos, the weather I had in Europe was very beautiful and I managed to get sunburnt a number of times.     Abigail did actually make to the top of the pole, the playground had only recently been built.

After pizza one evening, at the back of Bec's place.

On Monday, we all went for a walk by a canal.

Where a pair of Swans were building a nest.

Bec, Mathew and Luke in front of a small stone bridge, hundreds of years old.

On Tuesday, 3rd May, we all went to Burghley House built by William Cecil, the treasurer of Queen Elizabeth (the first one). Below are views of the lake within the massive grounds the estate.

The kids playing in the water park, below.

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And on Wednesday, Beck and I walked along the Grand Union Canal to Foxton Locks where we had a pub lunch, it took about 2 hours.

Somewhere along the way, the hats and shades demonstrating how bright the sun was.

Note the long boat coming up the canal, almost all the boats were clean and colourful.

At the top of the viewing platform overlooking the ruins of the Foxton Inclined Plane, which was a quick alternative to the 10 locks. It was operational by mid 1900, but mothballed in 1911 and finally disassembled in 1926.

Then on Thursday, Beck and I caught the train to London.