england_2006 Photo Gallery by roxanneboscobel at pbase.com

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I've arrived!! I didn't take any photos the day I arrived; we went antiquing on the way home!	Here we are in Orford; see the doggies?	BEAUTIFUL weather!!	"Dressed" crabs!
These little fisherman's huts were along the shore	My friend Lynda!	They use fuschias as hedges!	Old and really old
Church -- look at that sky!!	Nice view of a wonderful private garden and the town castle!	Cottages	The castle in Orford
Milk is still delivered to the door in glass bottles!	Baskets!	Kitties looking out the window	Old church
Memorial plaque in the church	Artsy photo of church window	Remains of the 11th century church	churchyard
The most spectacular fish stew with a yummy crusty top	The 'port' at Snape	A boat with brown sails against the church steeple backdrop	Wonderful garden shop in Snape Maltings
On the shingle in Aldeburgh	Bright flowers around the town square	Sweet memorial	While we were there, they had an emergency call
Guys came screeching in from all over, parked their cars, and ran to the boat	They backed the tractor out and connected it to the boat trailer	Which has tractor treads too	The guys going out were already on the boat in full gear
Shoving the boat down the shingle	They untied the tie downs and ropes	On a horn from the captain, they whacked the final tie downs	And the boat took off!
It was going 3 miles offshore to help a boat in heavy seas	They didn't leave the tractor on the beach; they put it back in the garage!	A lookout on the beach	Beautiful houses along the seashore
Pink!	It was a busy shopping town too!!	Flowers were everywhere!	Sedum!
That little speck in the sky is a stunt pilot in a small plane; I swear I thought he was going to crash several times!!	Swan pond nearby	The shingle is the beach made up of little rocks; difficult to walk on but beautiful!	See!! I'm really here!
Martello tower from the time of Napoleon	The next morning in Lavenham -- my favorite town!	We saw at least five weddings in different towns; how romantic!!	and YES the double deck buses operate out in the countryside!
Scone, clotted cream, and a coke!! YUM!!	The rental car -- nice Volvo (but a bit long.....which made it interesting to park!)	A very old grange barn -- we went to a small antique fair inside	Some little place whose name I can't remember....
Nice!!	The guild hall	A very interesting woman we met in the tea shop where we had tea and tea cakes (yum!)	The middle house on the left just sold!!
Church!	Gargoyles	I LOVED the really rustic look of this church!! We found that many had removed the victorian pews.	Lynda in a pensive moment
The bell tower	That door is REALLY short!!	See!! That's the old old house that sold!	More beauty!
Another fabulous church!	Beautiful beautiful stained glass!	Really spectacular plaster work!	Just can't enough of the quaint storefronts
And the town squares are pretty darn neat; this had a market in it earlier in the day	The library!!	The walk back to the car park	The stables for Houghton Hall
The gardens at Houghton Hall	Although the plants have gone to seed, the colors and textures are still there!	Antlers on a garden folly!	All english gardens just take my breath away!
A HUGE berry cage	Agaves did very well here	Passion flower in the incredibly hot greenhouse!	Now THAT's a hedge!
The bases of the statues in the garden were covered in tiny little ferns	A sunken pond garden	Going to the manor; this is a private home still!!	They've made the stable courtyard into a shop, museum, and restaurant
Chicken curry sammich, chips, and lemon drink!	Low tide at Wells-next-the-Sea	This place was like a one-block Ocean City	Burnham Market after the shops closed waaaah
Lynda admiring the hat shop	The lighting was perfect -- we sat outside that pub and had a coke!	Memorial at the nearby church	enjoying watching the traffic go by
Middle of town	Stamford	Spectacular church in Stamford	The carvings inside were spectacular
Medieval memorial	Sorry about the picture quality; had to take this around a corner; 15th century memorial	Another memorial!	Lynda enjoying the churchyard
Lunch in a beautiful courtyard of the George	The ladies loo at the George -- WOW!	A little taxidermy in a great old book store!	Church
How the church is held together	Limited stained glass	Interesting memorial	the roof; all the angels are different
Memorial	Stained glass wow	More stained glass	Wondeful niche with artifacts (didn't use a flash)
The next church's roof	Isn't that something!!	Walking around Stamford -- believe it or not, it was HOT -- about 85 degrees and humid!	Look, down that hill, another church!
YUMMIES!!	I think that's another church!!	Well, okay, that's the second church we saw	Down by the car park, this pretty park!
Barnsdale Gardens	Small individual gardens that were used in a TV series	Lynda admiring the gardens	Each garden is just a perfectly proportioned jewel
And they are all perfect for small back yards!	Lynda and the fabulous gunnera	They have created the illusion of a very long bed, although it is only about 15 - 20' long!	Just packed with delightful flowers!
Okay, here's proof that it was about 90 degrees that afternoon!!!	Closeup of a gunnera; what a great plant!!	You COULD see this created in your back yard!	Very nice alpine house!
Wondeful small plants!	The Mediterranean garden grown in skree	Isn't that sumptuous!	Very nicely maintained!
The Gentleman's Garden	Wonderful little conservatory/greenhouse	Nicely clipped little hedges	Isn't THIS a great courtyard!!!
The sign OF COURSE says don't walk across the pond....	AND they sold plants, lots and lots of plants!!! I was so tempted...........	Lynda bought 9 daylilies!!! Another daylily convert!!	Another beautiful town - Uppingham
Very charming town; we were walking thru after the stores closed	Lots of houses are made from this light colored sandy stone	Unicorn!	What a beautiful building!!
In the churchyard, it appeared they were using headstones as a fence!!	There were chimney swifts flying around this steeple	Lynda worked at this very post office about xxxxxx years ago (hahahaha!)	Charming!!
Looks old, but it was actually relatively new (like 5 - 10 years old) on the front of a defunct bookstore	We're antiquing at Southwold!!	The busy seaside town of Southwold!	Cute stores
and fabulous sidewalk wares!	Here's where we had lunch; fish and chips -- REAL large fish filet deep fried YUM!!	Reading room	Little cabanas along the shore -- want one?? $100k each to start!
Stately homes above the beach	Sitting outside their cabana enjoying the warm (hot) weather!	The lighthouse is actually a couple of blocks in the town and not on the beach!	Wow!
The whole town smells like hops -- not unpleasant!	Fabulous fabulous church!!	This one still had the outside statues intact!!	and what a ceiling!
13th Century painted wooden screen that was defaced in 1643!!!	Toot!	Closeup of that centuries old paint!!	This statue was removed several hundred years ago
The church had stained glass windows, but they were all destroyed by a bomb blast in 1941 and have not been replaced	The garden of Lynda's parents in Rumburgh; most of the plants have been grown from seed!!	Lynda and her parents Rose and Walter	Pointing out particular plants
Look at that bird!	Smiles over the asters	Brilliant phlox!	Luscious colors!!
One of the prettiest gardens you will ever see!	Looking back towards the house	Look at the bumble bee!!	Strategically placed planters
The front of the house!	By the front door; the colors and textures are truly wonderful!	The next morning at Lynda's, this is the car we rented in her side yard	The front yard; those are blooming daylilies in POTS!
Her tiny front yard -- she is not afraid of planting big plants	Cute house!!!	All of the great bushes she has planted outside her back wall	Lynda's neighborhood
Her street!	The nearby roundabout	Just around the corner; where we got fish and chips one night	The very very nice walking path thru her neighborhood
Lynda's backyard; her greendhouse!!	Bright flowers on the back of the house	More flowers	The backyard
More backyard -- keep in mind this is a tiny little yard with hundreds of plants!!	the fresh color is just wonderful!!	Isn't that cute!?!??!	In the front yard; yes that is a closely clipped pyracantha next to the door!
Eye-popping color!	Lynda's kitchen -- washing machine!	Kitchen in the other direction -- big window out to the backyard!	Her fridge!
The bathroom I used	The town of Marlow	Since it was closer to London, was busier and more cosmopolitan, but with old stuff	Interesting brickwork
The main drag	$50 hand-tied bundles of flowers!	Busy Lizzies all over the place!	And a sundial
The church on the river	Hey, there's a Webb!	Relatively modern stained glass window!	A stage coach as part of a memorial on the inside wall of the church
The river Thames just beyond the graveyard!	Another Webb!	The river Thames just above the Marlow Lock	And a very cool suspension bridge (and old too!!)
We sat across the river and enjoyed the spectacular view of the church	See! We had coffee and tea!	and watched the canal boats going by!	Marlow
We just arrived at Henley-on-Thames	Bridge	Every town has a Red Lion (and a Swan)	Showing the flintwork on the church
VERY busy traffic (evening rush hour) fast thru town	City Hall (we surmised)	Old old buildings	Where we had dinner (okay, its a french restaurant); we sat outside!
Lawn bowling (sorry about the fuzziness, it was nearly dark!)!	The 767 for my flight home!! Bye Bye!!

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Guest		28-Oct-2006 21:20
Looks like a great holiday!

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