6 days in Jolly Old - awesome place



After our 2 weeks flying visit to Canada, sleeping around and eating way too much, we flew to England, started out with my brothers in Dartford for a couple of days. Showed Tony the last home town I lived in before emigrating to Canada - where most of the rest of my family still live, went fishing with Michael and Anne, took loads of photos to post on this site, but promptly lost them all when transferring the entire My Pics file from C-drive to D-drive.


Fortunately however I did not lose the other photos which we took while visiting with Tony's relatives in Frimley and Portsmouth.


Tony's cousin Ken and his wife Chris very kindly took us in for a couple of days, picked us up in Dartford and not only showed us their own fabulous hospitality but also drove us around to do a bit of sight seeing and then drove us down to Portsmouth to meet with Tony's other cousin Jane and her brood - the Coppinis, who, wouldn't you know just happen to be Maltese derivatives. We found that out from Tony's parents the day before we left Canada.


Unfortunately for Chris her elderly mother passed away on the last day that we visiting, and we felt very sad for her. Its hard to lose our mothers, no matter how old they are.


We had a lovely day in Windsor, were totally blown away by the size of the castle,(the Queen was not in residence) - had a close up look at the narrow boats which are travelling around on the river systems in England at very reasonable moorage costs. 4 pounds per day to tie up in designated areas where water is available, or no charge at all if you just tie up to some trees.


We sat in a pub which dated back to the 1500's opposite the Castle entrance where we met a gentleman from Vancouver - actually he was originally from Nairobi but is now from Vancouver. Nice to meet our neighbours so far from home.




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