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From: "Jeff Piper" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] While you're waiting - Luxury - was Status of v5.05
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 12:34:27 -0000
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Becky,
The sun is shining today. It's quite mild and when my daughter finishes work
in about an hour we are going to drive up to Bamburgh.
For our cousins around the world (and the southerners in England who won''t
travel north of Watford Gap <G>) Bamburgh is a small village on the
Northumberland coast, one of the most beautiful streches of coastline in
England (I am of course biased). A beautiful castle stands on a rock outcrop
and was the site of the Northumbrian kings. You can see Holy Island, one of
the main sites of Christianity in the British Isles, with it's castle and
priory to the north. Out to sea a little south are the Farne Islands home to
myriads of birds and seals. On the boat trips out the puffins with their
brightly couloured beaks fly past andon Inner Farne, a bird sanctuary you
can see them nesting. There are also terns who use your head as taget
practice with their sharp beaks when the chicks are born. eider ducks,
associated with St Cuthbert who lived on Inner Farne as a hermit, bob on the
water and nest on the island. The seals lie on the roacks of some of the
remote islands.
The local hero is Grace Darling who in the on September 7th 1838 rowed out
from Inner Farne with her father in ferocious storms to rescue 9 people from
a shipwreck.
Bamburgh has been used in many films and the beach was the scene of battles
in the epic El Cid.
There's a lovely little tea room which I hope will still be open when we get
there. If not then chips at Seahouses, a fishing port with eeider ducks in
the harbour.
We will drive past Alnwick Castle which is Hogwarts in the Harry Potter
films.
There is a picture of Bamburgh on my website.

Well Becky have you booked your trip yet?

Jeff Piper
Stanley Co. Durham
Land of the Prince Bishops
www.piper22.freeserve.co.uk


----- Original Message -----
From: "Becky Pyle" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 1:02 AM
Subject: Re: [TMG] While you're waiting - Luxury - was Status of v5.05



> Stop it!!!! You're going to cost me money! I'm trying to decide if I want
> to visit England again this summer after a wonderful visit this past
summer
> (yes, I was in beautiful Durham!) I just got the tour brochure for this
> summer. You guys are pushing me right over the edge! <grin> I love
England!!!!
>
>
> Becky Kenton Pyle
> Grade 2 teacher (Mechanicsburg, OH)
> Urbana, OH



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