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England - 30 May to 30 July 2000 Once loaded click photos to enlarge then click Back button to return to this page.

Jane and Gary and Jane's parents, Don and Maurene, met up in London on the 30th of May and spent a few weeks together touring England and Wales.

Tower Bridge, five minutes walk from the apartment we stayed at for a week.

The view from our London apartment balcony.

The Millennium Wheel (Eye of London) where we found several hundred people queued up for the half-hour ride.

The first week was spent in London where we stayed at an apartment owned by a fellow Kiwi. We spent the second week on a canal boat travelling on the Avon and Kennet Canal. We travelled from Trowbridge to Reading, a journey which took two hours in the car. We were given a couple of hours tuition on handling the 15 ton Juniper and then it was ours for a week.

The Juniper parked beside the Barge Inn. What a neat place for a pub.

Second day we were faced with a flight of 25 locks at Caen which took 5 hours to get through. Don, the master lock operator, reckoned he walked the distance - twice.

After that the locks thinned out a little, although we had to negotiate just over 100 of them altogether, and we had a relatively pleasant week cruising along at two mph.

The third week we picked up a rental car (2000 Renault Laguna) moved into a cottage in Draycott, near the Cheddar Gorge in Somerset, and radiated out in different directions each day to places like Exeter, Portland, Bath, Weston-Super-Mare and Bristol. And of course Don and Gary had to spend the evenings sampling a lot of Somerset cider at the local. Very sociable places those English pubs. Serve good food too.

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The cottage in Draycott, Somerset.

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Opened 27 Jul 2000                      Gary Danvers New Zealand                       Updated 23 Jun 2005

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