Updated April 2013

Short Breaks (usually in the caravan)

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2013

Places visited during short breaks this year -
Yorkshire, Scotland, Devon

**A Day trip by coach to Whitby**

**Half Term in February and a coach trip to Woolacombe (Devon)**

Woolacombe Bay (above) with (below) Morthoe Point (left), and Appledore from Instow (centre) and Northam Burrows(right).

The Second week in January (the week before the snow came)
for a holiday in West Scotland

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow

The Falkirk wheel and barge trip Barges are transported between the lower and higher canals - numerous locks used to take a day to lock through

Hills and Lochs

**Christmas and the New Year, based in Croyde near Barnstaple**

Along the beach at Croyde

Croyde sunsets				Railway bridge on the Tarka Trail

A nice bright but breezy day for a walk along Baggy Point

More along Baggy Point				A quick trip to Ilfracombe

2012

Places visited during short breaks this year -
Essex, Lincolnshire, Devon, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Yorkshire & Wales

Who said all motorway service stations are boring?
Our favourite stopping off place when travelling to Kent (late October)

**Early in October we spent a long weekend near Thirsk**

Fields flooded by the recent rains		South Otterington		Autumn Colours

A visit to the James Herriot Museum In the area depicting the studio was some equipment I had designed as a Senior Engineer at Marconi's in Chelmsford!

**The middle of September for a long weekend near Bourne**

Sunrise (left) and sunset (right; go and see the painting) and the reason for this visit - a one-day course to carve a head!

Walking in the area

Visiting an "Open Garden"

**The middle of August for a long weekend near Loughborough**

East Leake where we stayed (above) A visit to the Carilon in Loughborough Park to hear and watch it being played(below)

**End of July and a long weekend based at Uppingham, Rutland**

The main purpose of our weekend was to vist Barnsdale, the gardens originally designed by Geoff Hamilton for his TV series. A small selection of the gardens is shown below.

**End of May and a long day to Portmerion (Wales)**

Middle of May and a weekend near Coventry
to visit the Cathedral


and nearby at Claybrooke Parva . . . To the Manor Born!

End of April and a week's holiday
visiting Wisbech, Chelmsford and Huntingdon
Huntingdon and trips Ely and the guided rail bus to Cambridge

Chelmsford and our old haunts

Stock, where Serena lived for many years


Neil's Primary School - now a museum!


The Chelmer Canal
Wisbech town and harbour

Middle of February and a week's holiday
in and around Ilfracombe, North Devon
Ilfracombe town and harbour


Barnstaple		Oak Apples		Combe Martin

Westwood Ho!		Instow

End of January and a week's holiday
in and around Torquay, Devon
Torquay

Paignton

Oldway House, Paignton (Previously "Singer" family home)

Cockington

Plymouth

Christmas and the New Year - 2011/2012
based at Buckingham

Buckingham town

Cambridge Town


Milton Keynes
	Oxford Town
Winslow (near Buckingham)

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