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Hello along time since I have taken the time to get on the internet. I have so many wonderful messages from all of you I can only send this piece of what ever it is worth of my travels. To start with I started off the day by going to a latin Mass in a church that was bombed in 1940 and just got finished. Dramatic I must say. The choir was full of angels voices. Good start I must say to do what ever the rest of the day I don't know yet. However to back up a bit there is alot to tell you from the past. I had told you all I was going to Birmingham on the 29th for the Military Tatoo. Getting there is three hours from London so of course back onto the trains. The Tattoo was brilliant lasted three hours however the Tattoo in Novia Scotia is also as good. I got lost a bit on the walk back from the NIA saw more bloody Santa's than I could count. Got to the station in time found where the platform for the train was and got a seat (another table with 2 on each side). All women. the seats across where going the other way and it was good as along came bit of a tart of a women all dressed in her finest with a somewhat embarrassed lady sitting next to her. She had a suitcase big enough to stuff a body or two in and after finding the luggage racks she sat down and proceded to go into a large cloth bag. Out came a bottle of booze which she gladly started chugging from. My three ladies all looked at each other in delight as three hours is long but with entertainment it's quite good. As the evening progressed she started to speak to us and low and behold out came bottles of cream liquours for us all., She insisted we embibe with her and gladly we all did. It became a merry train ride for sure. At least I wasn't sitting next to the bad breath guy. My cousin Steven and myself went to a rock concert with the Royal Philamonic (can't spell ) orch. in the Roayl Albert Hall. We were behind the orch. in unbelievable seats could see if anyone's eyebrowns needed plucking we were that close. Heard some great queen songs led zeplin the works I could not believe it. On the way back we saw sign ouside of a small shop for a turkey dinner the following evening. We went in a made a resv. This happened to be in American thanksgiving. After returning the following evening we were in for a surprise. The rest. was a carribean setting we were served by Eastern Europeans and our turkey dinner amounted to chicken fried turkey onto a head of potatoes with something foreign in them as well. We were quite amazed on what there idea of a turkey dinner was. All in all we had a great time. Of course I took to the road again and Steven went off to Ireland for 4 days. I found a place I had been looking for in Wilshire called Lacock. The village belongs to the National Trust so everyone living in the village cannot change anything to the dwellings. The youngest dwelling was built in 1800. You could just stand there and see wjhat life really must of been like back than. There is also an abbey having a chirstmas fair at the time I'm glad I went as another scene for Harry Potter where it was filmied as well as many other films. I stayed in a old rectory turned into a B&B. As I rang the large bell with an angel standing over it thought for sure a ghost would answer the door. Instead a lovely lady dressed in riding clothes so new this is the place as somewhere there is a horse. Indeed there were 2. Was invited to go and watch a jumping session which I thoughly enjoyed. Invited back to have a ride hopefully sometime this week. Of course another train to get me some what there and to find the bus was a horse of a different colour. Buses were all over Chippenham where I was to stand in this certain spot to get my bus to Lacock. It finally arrived with the name of the bus company on the side "Andy's Bus"...I could just visual what the andy guy looked like and he did. That was journey number 1. To find my way out of this place was as difficult no good train stories however going back. I met up with my room mate at the hostel in Penanze had lunch and mooched around London for the rest of the day meeting up with some of her friends. There is so much to see here I dohn't think in a life time it could all be done.

I am going back to school again for classes I am taking relating to what I will be doing when I getback. The people I have met have been wonderful I don't believe anyone is unfriendly if you are not. Again have been invited into homes for a cup of tea and it all says one thing to me. We are all alike no matter what country. I am grateful every day for having experience too many to write ab out but experiences I shall never forget. Having an English dinner in Bristol next Sunday with friends I met in Thailand and the Saturday before going out again with friends I met in Mexico.

Off now to London town to look up many more things to see and walks to do.

Live today like it is your last............

ME