wiltshire – Open Diary

England #28.2 – Avebury, Part II and one more Barge visit

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May 18, 2018

OMG, I am... almost finished. So now I'm going to be experiencing the sad end of a wonderful trip all over again. I've got one more entry after this one, the journey home/wrap up one. And that is IT. Finally. (lol, I started this entry DAYS ago. I've been spoiled at work for weeks by…

England #28.1 – Avebury, Part One

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May 14, 2018

I'm making this into two entries because we went to Avebury twice- the first time was the Stonehenge/Barge/Avebury/Marlborough day (Tuesday May 9, 2017; yes I have officially lapped myself) when we didn't stay all that long as it was getting late and everything was closed. Including somewhere to ...

England #23 – a side trip to Castle Combe

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May 7, 2018

A quick and picture-intensive post about our visit to Castle Combe, which is a gorgeous little Wiltshire village north of Bath. Only 12 or so miles north, yet it took FOREVER to get there. Of course. I assume the Google GPS Who Hated Us led us the long way around. LOL-- why yes, it did.…

England 22- hiking at Fyfield Down on the Last Day

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December 22, 2013

Or, as we kept saying, the, "sniff..sniff...last day...WAAAHHHH!!!!" How is it possible for time to go so fast?? None of us was ready for it to be The Last Day. But, sadly, there The Last Day was, before we knew it. We made the most of our Last Day, though. We took a long hike to Fyfield…

England 21- Hackpen Hill and Rockley and just wandering around

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December 8, 2013

Since I've not been really doing day-to-day entries to document our countryside stay, and instead have been doing hunks of things - like an entry for Marlborough and an entry (or two) for Bath and an entry (or two) for Avebury and an entry (or two) for Disaster Day, I'm getting kind of confused a...

England 20- a picturey entry with more pictures of picturesque Avebury

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December 7, 2013

Have I said how much I loved Avebury? I really loved Avebury. I could live here. Amongst the stones. And sheep. This sheep had an itch. Impressive trees: West Kennet Avenue is a long stretch of stones -- originally around 100 pairs of parallel stones. And lots of sheep: And.... People Pictures! K...

England 19; hanging around lovely Avebury

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December 2, 2013

We hung around Avebury just about every day that we were in Wiltshire, so I'm giving Avebury its own entry. It's both a town and the site of a Neolithic henge monument. It's the largest stone circle in Europe. On the First Trip in 2010, Kim and I went to Stonehenge and to Avebury, and although St...

England 18.5; some more Bath pictures

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November 26, 2013

The real Bath entry is one entry back, but I want to add a few more pictures. Because I found Kim's Bath Pictures- which I'd put in a separate set from MY Bath Pictures on Flickr, since she was using my Powershot (why did I not just loan her my spare battery? Neither of us…

England 18 – Thursday’s trip to Bath; lovely and very low on draaaama

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November 25, 2013

But before I get to Bath, I have to wrap up one last loose end from the previous Passport Disaster entries: What happened to the purse?? I was oddly certain that it would reappear, since the cards had not been used. Our landlord told us to keep checking with the police department, in case it…

England 17 — !!DISATER!!DAY!!! continued…

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November 18, 2013

...from last entry. Disaster Day actually lasted for two days--- Tuesday June 24th was The Day The Passport Vanished, and Wednesday the 25th was The Day We Had To Drive Back To London To The Embassy. I left off last entry with Baker B and I hiking over to the Devil's Den, from our cottage,…