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From: "Bobbie Hall" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] While you're waiting - Luxury - was Status of v5.05
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 16:30:05 -0600
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Jeff,

You make me jealous! One old ancestor looks like he came from Bamburgh -
Lucker parish, I believe. Thank you for the wonderful description, you've
sent me there in my imagination, and the photo of the castle on your web
site helps me 'visualize' the area. I believe I can hear your accent in
there somewhere, too ;>

Thanks for the flight-of-fancy away from the frozen corn fields of the
mid-west usa.

Cheers,
Bobbie

> 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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