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h Passing through England.

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March 21, we head to the Chunnel.	Boom, we're in England, en route to Salisbury and Stonehenge. First of many thatched roofs.

Salisbury Cathedral	Interior in Hereford Cathedral (the next day)

I had heard you couldn't get close to the stones at Stonehenge. In fact, we were there March 21, and there were still caravans parked in a nearby field from the celebrations and rituals the previous evening and night.	A little cloudy at sunset.

Just a little castle near Ludlow--en route.	Stokesay Castle was really a little village.

Some ancient timbers in a cold, forbidding banquet room (me listening on the audiotour).	But gentler rooms, from another era of its history.

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May 3-6, We combine a conference in Preston with a side trip to Scotland --by way of the Lake Country & Hadrian's Wall	Below: Wordsworth's Dove Cottage (and below left, a neighboring house that Wilbur found more interesting.)



Below: Evening in Carlisle (This is peaceful. Back around our hotel in Butchergate was an incredible bar scene that encompassed 3 city blocks. (on a Sunday night 5/3)

Hadrian's Wall on a cold forbidding day (Romans, Go Home!)


A nearby wall. One looks like it might have taken stones from Hadrians wall. The other shows how different the character of the typical farm stone wall is from the military Roman one.

On to Scotland, spent the night in Lochgoilhead after a harrowing ride over the hills. This picture doesn't give the impression of how steep were the drops and how curvy the road.	To arrive at our destination


Below: The next day, picking up the trail of Charles Rennie Macintosh, first in Helensburg (Hill House)	Above: We are told that the little "float" in the center is where navy subs moor. This isn't really a loch, it's a long skinny, loch-like inlet.




Then on to Glasgow for the last tour of the School of Art (no photography allowed. This was before they told us.)

Below: At the Italian restaurant in Glasgow	The School of Art above in the afternoon, below at night.

Next excursion out of Wales was 5/12: Trip back to France--through Shrewsbury & Ludlow, the Cotswolds, and Bath before heading to Dover. Below is our hotel in medieval Shrewsbury	Nothing lines up in Shrewsbury, but it's still (mostly) standing.




The afternoon in the Cotswolds (1905 or so)	Below: Chipping Camden and environs



on to Lower Slaughter

	(I think you can see the jacket I bought hanging in the doorway to the right.)
Below: And then on to Georgian Bath (well Roman, Viking, and everyone else)	Below left: The Royal Crescent. Below below: Wilbur at the B&B in Bath 5/14



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