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  • TravelerNavigation vers la Suede !
    Day 5

    Poole

    April 17 in England ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C

    Nous arrivons à Poole la nuit tombée. Le chenal est plutôt étroit et nous trouvons une bouée vacante dans un endroit relativement abrité de Parkstone bay. La baie de Poole est immense, on a l'impression d'être au bord d'un lac.

    La nuit à la bouée est plutôt paisible : pas de courant dans cette zone, et le bateau se mettant dans le sens du vent c'est relativement agréable .

    Nous quittons le lendemain le bateau sous la pluie, on rame fort pour arriver à la côte ! On doit remplir les bouteilles d'eau et vider les poubelles ^^

    L'annexe amarrée proche de marches en pierre, on marche une vingtaine de minutes et la pluie ne cessant pas, on trouve refuge dans un très joli pub Whetherspoon situé dans une ancienne bibliothèque. Le centre est très joli, l'église est étonnante avec des piliers en bois. Il y a un ancien pont levant du début du XXe siècle.

    Le soir, nous rejoignons le Lord Nelson pour un peu de musique live. Folle ambiance, la bonne humeur et la danse sont au rendez vous.
    Nous quittons l'endroit vers 1:30 et marchons dans la pluie pour retrouver l'annexe, qui à notre plus grande surprise a disparu ! Visiblement elle a été volée. N'ayant pas de moyen de rentrer au bateau, on cherche une annexe que nous pourrions emprunter, sans succès. Pas moyen de réserver un hôtel au vu de l'heure tardive. On se dirige donc vers le pub tout en scrutant la côte à la recherche de l'annexe. Nous avions discuté avec plusieurs personnes bien sympathiques qui pourraient nous aider.

    Le pub est en train de fermer mais un client, Sam, propose de nous héberger : il a de bons souvenirs de la Scandinavie et y a reçu de l'aide. Il vit dans une ancienne maison du centre historique dont les poutres sont issues de voilier. Le lendemain, après nous avoir préparé une délicieuse omelette aux champignons, il nous dépose au bateau avec son propre bateau moteur. Quel accueil !
    On décide de s'amarrer au ponton le plus proche, où le personnel nous indiquenbque nous pouvons rester gratuitement pendant le weekend de Pâques.    Read more

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  • TravelerZuid Engeland
    Day 3

    Dag 3 Brighton en Winchester

    June 22, 2024 in England ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C

    Vandaag was een reisdag van Ashford naar Bournemouth met twee stops.
    De eerste stop was Brighton een drukke stad met een boulevard.
    Hier hebben we wat rondgelopen en een hapje gegeten aan het strand. We hebben naar je geluisterd Peet want het was vis😉
    Je moest uitkijken dat de gigantische meeuwen er niet met je eten vandoor gingen😱
    De nieuwe pier was verouderd en verderop lag het geraamte van de oude pier die in 1866 is gebouwd en in 2003 is verbrand.
    In Nederland was die allang weggehaald maar eigenlijk heeft het ook iets bijzonders. Daarna zijn we nog door Chichester gereden wat niet zo bijzonder was. Wel zijn we gestopt in Winchester. Daar zijn we naar de Winchester Cathedral geweest. Er lagen veel bisschoppen en oorlogshelden daar begraven maar ik (Erica) vond het graf van Jane Austen het leukst om te zien. Heb zoveel gezwijmeld bij Pride and Prejudice dat ik het gaaf vond om bij het graf van haar te staan. Ze heeft vele mooie romans geschreven. Rutger vond de graven van de oorlogshelden interessanter. Om 18 uur waren we in Bournemouth en bij ons hotel na gesetteld te zijn. Weer hebben we een mooie kamer. De filmpjes die we naar Rick en Joanne sturen van onze kamers zullen we jullie besparen haha. Daarna een hapje eten bij strand en nu een spelletje doen in onze hotelkamer. Morgen lijkt het mooi weer te worden. Misschien gaan we genieten hiervan bij het binnenbad en buitenweide van ons hotel.    Read more

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    Day 4

    Day 4

    March 17, 2024 in England ⋅ 🌬 14 °C

    We travelled to Christchurch in the morning by train, where Chris lived before he moved to Canada, and where his sister and her family live now. They showed us the town and the New Forest, where we went for a very muddy walk with some horses! Afterwards we went out for a traditional Sunday roast dinner.Read more

  • Spring of 2025 Adventure
    Day 20

    Portland, UK. Jurassic Coast.

    April 17 in England ⋅ ☁️ 50 °F

    Again, we were extremely lucky today. The weather was perfect. I booked a tours to see famous Jurassic Coast. It dates back to 180 million years.
    We took a shuttle from the port and met our guide.
    Portland is famous for their limestone. Many buildings, including buildings of great importance were constructed with Portland stone, including The Palace of Westminster, The Tower of London and even parts of Buckingham Palace. United Nations building in NYC was also build from this stone.

    We passed Chesil Beach. It is 18 miles in length, roughly 160 metres wide and rises to 12 metres in height. It is the largest beach in the UK and without it Portland really would be an island!

    We continue driving toward Dorchester, stopped at the Royal Chocolate Store that supplies chocolate to the best stores and Royal Family. South of Dorchester, King Charles is building a town. It is very pleasing and very expensive to have an apartment. Tenants cannot change anything in their apartments.
    We continue to Jurassic Coast to see gorgeous landscape.

    We passed villages where there were only few inches between our van and the windows of very old tiny houses while driving in a narrow streets.

    We stoped in Corfe town that looked like it could be a village in Disney. The town has remnants of the castle built in XI century.

    We then drove to beautiful very touristy town Waymouth where we offered to stay for 1.5 hours and then proceed to the cruise ship. After walking for a while, we decided to take a cruise ship shuttle instead of waiting for our tour to go back.

    We had a delicious very late lunch at Dutch Cafe on the ship and then well deserved spa.
    The day ended with the show and going to bed at 9:00PM.    Read more

  • TravelerHouse Sit Europe Trips
    Day 200

    Lulworth Estate -stables, church & chape

    April 17 in England ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C

    The Lulworth Estate extends over 12,000 acres (20 square miles) of the south Dorset countryside, including 5 miles of the Jurassic Coast and internationally renowned landmarks such as Lulworth Cove and Durdle Door.

    This Chapel - the first free-standing Catholle Church built for public worship in this country since the Reformation
    Thomas Weld (1750-1810).
    Religion was central in the upbringing of Thomas family, who were educated at home by a Jesult tutor. Five of the fifteen children entered the Church as priests or nuns.
    His eldest son, (also Thomas) was inherited the Lulworth Estate, on the death of his father In 1810.
    Sadly his wife died In 1815 and Thomas realised that his vocation lay within the Church. After his daughter's marriage was arranged in 1818 Thomas left Lulworth to study for the priestbood in Paris.
    1821 he returned to England as an Ordained Priest, in 1826 he was consecratod as Bishop of Lower Canada, in 1829 when he was made a Cardinal - the first Englishman handured in this way since the Reformation. In the sarne year the Catholic Emancipation Act was passed, giving Catholics in this country full civil rights.

    The Act of Uniformity made the services of the Church of England the only legal form of public worship. Everyone was ordered to attend church every Sunday, or pay a fine of 12d. Whilst these laws discriminated against anyone not conforming to the Church of England, Catholics were especially vulnerable because they could be forced to choose between loyalty to the Crown or to their religion, particularly after the Pope declared Queen Elizabeth excommunicated and deposed in 1570. Then if they chose their religion they could be treated as traitors. These were missioners, who were usually known by false names to protect their relatives as such priests were actively sought out, and many martyred by the traitor's horrible fate of hanging, drawing and quartering.    Read more

  • TravelerHouse Sit Europe Trips
    Day 200

    Lulworth Estate - Castle

    April 17 in England ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C

    A History 375 Years In The Making

    In 1641 Humphrey Weld, grandson of a rich London Merchant and direct ancestor of the current owner, purchased the Lulworth Estates from Thomas Howard who had built the Castle here between 1608 and 1610 to complement his manor house at Bindon Abbey in the nearby village of Wool.

    Over the years, the Castle has had various uses, occupants and a diverse and colourful history. There have been a number of significant events at the Castle, some like the fire of 1929 were devastating, others less so but equally as important in the Castle’s history.

    From a perilous state of decay following the fire the Castle was saved from eventual ruin. The exterior is now fully restored and the interior consolidated. Exposed to the elements for 70 years after the fire, the Castle decayed rapidly, stonework eroded and unburnt timbers rotted until the whole structure was in danger of collapse.    Read more

  • TravelerHouse Sit Europe Trips
    Day 195

    Red House & Garden Christchurch

    April 12 in England ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C

    A former Georgian workhouse, the Red House is now a museum exploring the story of Christchurch from before the Ice Age to modern times.

    The workhouse

    The building dates from 1764 and was the parish workhouse for Christchurch and Bournemouth. In 1886, as a result of the increasing population, a new union workhouse was built in Fairmile and the old house was sold to the vicar of Christchurch Priory, the Reverend T. H. Bush. Reverend Bush named the building ‘The Red House’ after the colour of the bricks and he demolished the women’s wards in 1887 to construct the stables, now the temporary exhibition gallery.

    A workhouse was somewhere that people who had no job and no home could come and live with their family. This building could house up to 130 inmates, and included dormitories, a school room, separate yards for men, boys and girls, a hospital and a laundry.    Read more

  • TravelerHouse Sit Europe Trips
    Day 192

    Christchurch - Priory

    April 9 in England ⋅ ☀️ 11 °C

    Christchurch Priory is an ecclesiastical parish and former priory church in Christchurch in the English county of Dorset (formerly in Hampshire). It is one of the longest parish churches in the country and is as large as many of the Church of England Cathedrals.

    The story of Christchurch Priory goes back to at least the middle of the 11th century, as the Domesday Book of 1086 says there was a priory of 24 secular canons here in the reign of Edward the Confessor. The Priory is on the site of an earlier church dating from 800AD.    Read more

  • TravelerUK by Train
    Day 7

    Oceanarium Bournemouth & Pier

    April 4 in England ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C

    Der letzte Tag in Bournemouth, bevor Morgen die Heimreise ansteht und zum Abschluss geht es ins Oceanarium.

    Sehr hübsch, auch wenn ich es mir größer vorgestellt habe, aber es gibt viel zu sehen und der kleine Otter war einfach der Beste! Am Abend geht es schon nach London, bis dahin verbringe ich einfach noch etwas Zeit am Pier. Schade, dass ich keine Badesachen dabei habe, das Wetter wäre perfekt!

    Last day here, tomorrow is devoted to travelling back home, but went down to the pier again and visited the Oceanarium.

    Nice place, bit smaller than I thought, but still lots of fish and sea animals to see and had fun walking around!

    Will spend my last few hours by the seaside at the beach now, weather is all sunny and warm. A shame I did not bring swimming gear, really!    Read more

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  • TravelerUK by Train
    Day 5

    Bournemouth - A day by the sea

    April 2 in England ⋅ 🌬 15 °C

    Weiter geht die Reise. Meine nächste Station ist Bournemouth an der Südküste und nachdem ich in meinem gemütlichen AirBnB eingecheckt war, bin ich direkt runter an den Strand - ich hab das Meer vermisst!! Das Wetter war super - kaum eine Wolke am Himmel und warm genug, dass sich die ersten Mutigen ins Wasser getraut haben. Ich hab der Versuchung widerstanden und die Schuhe angelassen - ohne Handtuch ist es immer doof mit dem Sand, aber es war einfach so schön. Dafür habe ich einen langen Strandspaziergang unternommen und immer wieder zum Zeichnen oder Lesen angehalten und die Zeit in vollen Zügen genossen - der Wind im Haar, die salzige Luft und das Geräusch der Wellen - herrlich!

    Und als besonderes Highlight bin ich im Stadtzentrum noch auf eine TARDIS gestoßen - cool!

    Arrived in Bournemouth just after 1 in the afternoon and after checking into my cosy AirBnB, I went down to the Pier - I missed the sea! Weather was lovely - hardly any clouds in the sky and warm enough for some brave people to go swimming even! I did not dare to take my shoes off, too much hassle with the sand but it was so nice! Took a long walk down the beach and back again, spent loads of time reading and sketching in the sun and just enjoyed it all - the wind whipping my hair around, the sand, the sea roaring and seeing the waves crash, gulls crying overhead and the sun shining down on it all! A lovely place to be!

    And as a treat I found a Police Box in town! So cool!!    Read more

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