Excellent gallery, Christine. Good to see Darrel brought his Bear's bag! Paul
On Jul 15, 2012, at 4:19 PM, Rick Womer wrote: > Nice pix, Christine--great colors, intriguing compositions. I've never been > to that part of London. > > Pity we couldn't have extended our stay a few days and met up... > > Cheers, > > Rick > > http://photo.net/photos/RickW > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Christine Aguila <[email protected]> > To: PDML List <[email protected]> > Cc: > Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2012 2:24 PM > Subject: England 2012--Deptford St. Market > > Hi Everyone: > > What a wonderful trip Darrel and I had this past June, and I think the 8 > nicest people in all of the UK are, in fact, our UK PDMLers and their family > members. > > As to the trip, Darrel and I flew into Heathrow and stayed in London for 2 > days, then took the boat to Greenwich to visit with Bob W. over the weekend. > He is a well informed and wonderfully fun tour guide, and at one point I > told him he could probably do this for a living. He's that good. We tramped > around Greenwich and Deptford and had a blast--taking pictures all the way. > Cotty and Alma joined us for dinner on Saturday night and as all of you can > well imagine, Cotty's wonderful sense of humor and charm kept us all in good > humor and laughter. It was a great night, and I shan't ever forget it! > > From Greenwich, Darrel and I caught the train to Cambridge and tramped around > the colleges, did the tour of King's College Chapel, and just walked and > walked, and drank ale, and relaxed. > > Then it was by bus to Milton Keynes to visit with Chris Mitchell and his wife > Karin. What a fantastic time we had visiting and seeing the sights there. > The Grand Juncture Canal was fantastic and the four of us visited some sites > from the UK's National Trust program, which is just fantastic. Very > impressive. Darrel and I had such a blast visiting with the Mitchells. > Chris sang, and he's fantastic. > > Then the four of us, Darrel & I and the Mitchells drove to Newcastle area to > meet up with Bob W., Mike Wilson, his wife Cath, and their daughter Katy. > The area here is absolutely beautiful, and Mike Wilson planned an itinerary > that was just fantastic. I think we'd all agree the high point was when we > crossed the dunes and found ourselves on Holy Island. Wow! Wait till you > see everyone's pictures from here, and the other sites visited. They're > really fun! > > From Newcastle we all said good-by, and Darrel & I headed back south to catch > a flight out of Heathrow. > > We traveled for 12 days, every two days on the move. As I've already said to > our UK PDMLers, Darrel and I found kindness, generosity, humor, and > friendship in abundance, and we're very grateful. We send xxoo across the > pond. > > When in the Greenwich area, Bob W. took us to the Deptford St. Market. > Here's a little gallery from that leg of the trip. Bob will post his > gallery. His gallery is much better, but here's a little taste of the > market--wonderfully multicultural! > > http://www.caguila.com/deptfordpdml > > > Cheers, Christine > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
