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Hot Fuzz Tour (Wells)

Those of you who have seen the film ‘Hot Fuzz’ may recognize some of the photos below as being the landscape for the shoot out scene at the end of this film. Wells is a lovely little village full of cobbled streets, green rolling hills and sweet little cottages. It also boasts an awesome,...

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Chris and Emily on April 17, 2009 from Wells, United Kingdom

from the travel blog: Europe 2009

Longleat House and Safari Park

The weather today looked a hell of a lot better than it did yesterday thankfully, and for this reason we decided to head to Longleat. Longleat is a stately home on thousands of acres which also, thanks to a flamboyant and eccentric new ‘lord’ boasts a small theme park and a safari tour, complete...

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Chris and Emily on April 16, 2009 from Bristol, United Kingdom

from the travel blog: Europe 2009

Day in Bristol

Another quiet day here in Bristol today, which was lovely. The weather wasn’t so fantastic today, infact if we’re being honest, it was bloody cold and wet. Chris and I spent the morning up loading what felt like a million blog entries in a local internet store before catching a double...

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Chris and Emily on April 15, 2009 from Bristol, United Kingdom

from the travel blog: Europe 2009

Wales

Wow, what a sleep in today. Ann and Brian must think we’re so lazy! We keep telling them that we normally don’t sleep this much, but I’m not sure they believe us. We don’t have breakfast until 10/11.30. I use the excuse that I’m still jet lagged. I’m not exactly sure how long I can use this...

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Chris and Emily on April 14, 2009 from Caldicot, United Kingdom

from the travel blog: Europe 2009

Helicopters Overhead

A day without a security alert in Belfast has become a day that I feel lost. Why? Because nearly everyday there have been security alerts in Belfast, ever since the Monday about two weeks ago when they began burning cars and hijacking buses all over North and West Belfast, including off...

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ebienelson on April 14, 2009 from Belfast, United Kingdom

from the travel blog: "She is the Belle of Belfast City..."

Bristol Beer Gardens

Today was a day of pints in the various beer gardens of Bristol. We had a lovely day relaxing in the sun, drinking pints of cider (me) and various beer (Chris) We met our cousins friends who I have to say are all very lovely and friendly. I shared my little travel 30+ sun cream around the...

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Chris and Emily on April 13, 2009 from Bristol, United Kingdom

from the travel blog: Europe 2009

Easter

Ahh, a day of rest finally! What bliss! We had a nice lie in before doing quite a bit of catch up blogging and then went down stairs for a chocolate breakfast; after all, it is Easter! We had a lovely quiet day of resting and just watching telly, it wasn’t much but it was nice to just chill...

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Chris and Emily on April 12, 2009 from Bristol, United Kingdom

from the travel blog: Europe 2009

Bristol Docks

It was lovely to have a nice sleep in and wake to a beautiful blue skied day! A relaxing, get up and slowly get ready morning followed by a trip down to the Bristol docks and our tour guide for the day was the beautiful Jenny. We had a chance to stick our head into Jenny’s apartment and then...

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Chris and Emily on April 11, 2009 from Bristol, United Kingdom

from the travel blog: Europe 2009

Getting Ready To Leave

Ok, so I've only got 19 days till I leave for a year! The time has flown by since I was called and offered the job on the Silver Cloud, in October. I've only got 7 more nights at home, because I'm going back down to Tring, so I can go to Pineapple in preparation for the rehearsals. I was told...

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nicolaedwards on April 11, 2009 from Shrewsbury, United Kingdom

from the travel blog: Silver Cloud

Train trip to Bristol

Thankfully here in London check out is 11am, which is great if you have a tendency to over sleep as Chris and I did this morning. Again another brekki in which this time we DID smuggle some more cheese and ham sangas out.. by now we didn’t care if they saw, it’s not like they could kick us out...

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Chris and Emily on April 10, 2009 from Bristol, United Kingdom

from the travel blog: Europe 2009

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