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Pictures & text messages from Wendy's mobile phone
(and sometimes Geraint's too!).

Saturday 2nd January 2010

Thursday 12th November 2009

Sunday 11th October 2009


Eleanor	Andrew	Colin	Marcia	Ruth

Friday 9th October 2009

Monday 5th October 2009

Thursday 1st October 2009

Wednesday 30th September 2009


Karaoke in Corfu!

Sunday 20th September 2009


Carving on Stone Mountain

Wednesday 16th September 2009


Fort in Nashville	Grand old Oprey Hotel		Space Centre Huntsville

Monday 14th September 2009


Casey Jones Museum

Sunday 13th September 2009


	Elvis memorial chapel		Elvis at 13	Gracelands

Alligator in swamp		In sun studios	Elvis in Memphis near Beale Street

Friday 28th August 2009


Swanage Railway

Thursday 27th August 2009


Heavy Horse Centre

Wednesday 26th August 2009

Monday 24th August 2009

Friday 21st August 2009


Town and Country Museum			James and Vivienne's 5th wedding anniversary

Tuesday 18th August 2009


Bournemouth beach		Lullworth Castle

Jousting at the castle

Wednesday 12th August 2009


Abbey Road Studio	The Cavern

Tuesday 11th August 2009 - Liverpool


Maritime museum

Thursday 16th July 2009


				Hill Top - The home of Beatrix Potter

Wednesday 15th July 2009

Beatrix Potter

Tuesday 14th July 2009

On the Ullswater Steamer (Lake District)

Sunday 29th June 2009

Gelert's Grave (Bedd Gelert)

Saturday 16th May 2009


Clive, Nigel & Wayne	View of Gilgen	Wayne on the train up the mountain at Schafberg

The top of the mountain			Last night, dinner at our favourite cafe

Friday 15th May 2009


The interior of the church where Maria got married	Outside of the church	Boat trip on lake Wolfgangsee

	"In the evening we went to the famous Salzburg marionette theatre. Some of the puppets were amazing. We saw the sound of music , their newest production"

Wednesday 13th May 2009

"The church where the carol Silent Night was written"

Tuesday 12th May 2009

"The start of our holiday in Austria . We are in the Mirabelle gardens
The fountain is the one they dance round in the sound of music film"

Thursday 7th May 2009

"Vale of Rheidol railway was the trip for today so after a scenic drive to Aberystwyth we boarded the train to Devils Bridge for a picnic lunch. We finished the holiday with a lovely dinner at the pub."

Wednesday 6th May 2009

"Third train of the holiday is from Talyllyn to Nant Gwernol. A lovely ride through spectacular scenery . A stop on the return for a coffee. Then in to town for lunch out."

Tuesday 5th May 2009

"Today we climbed snowdon the easy way. By train. It was very misty."

Monday 4th May 2009

"This the start of the holiday Little Trains of Wales. This is the Welsh highland rail. The scenery is amazing. The weather is awful."

Monday 18th August 2008

Tue 6th May 2008

Snowdon
"Well we’ve finished. We went up Snowden today taking the Pyg route (Wendy called it the pig route – with feeling!) and then we returned by the miners route. The weather was glorious, wall to wall sunshine. So on this trip we have had rain, hail, snow, high winds, sunshine – the lot! Thank you God for showing us the wonders of your creation, but you could have waited until we were indoors for most of it! Well bore you with most of the photos when we get back, but the attached one shows something of the scenery today. See you soon
Geraint & Wendy
PS your prayers for the aching limbs were answered – in the negative! Thanks God for Ibuprofen."

Sat 3rd May 2008

Scafell Pike
"Well, we achieved getting to the top of Scafell Pike, so that 1&7/8ths mountains. The weather was not bad for our ascent, some rain and hail showers, but nothing like we had on the top of Ben Nevis. Just as cold though. No snow thankfully, just a few pockets here and there. Celebrated the conquest (and my birthday) later by walking to the pub which is about ½ mile from our camp site.. I attach some photos again, hope you enjoy them, but I’m not going up again this year to retake them so they look better.
Aim to climb Snowden on Tuesday, which if we achieve it will mean we have climbed all three within the week Keep praying for us (especially the legs which need a bit of prayer support now!)"

Tues 29th April 2008

Ben Nevis
"Got to within 200 m of summit, but found deep snow (25 feet according to the ranger) and as it then decided to snow again we turned back with other people. We may be mad but are not yet certifiable!
Next stop Scafell Pike – better luck, and weather we hope"

Monday 3rd December 2007 - Dominican Republic

Wednesday 28th November 2007 - Dominican Republic

Sunday 25th November 2007 - Dominican Republic

Friday 23rd November 2007 - Dominican Republic

Friday 9th November 2007

Tuesday 6th November 2007

Monday 5th November 2007

Friday 2nd November 2007

Thursday 1st November 2007 - New York, USA

Monday 1st October 2007 - Corfu

Sunday 23rd September 2007 - Corfu

Saturday 15th September 2007 - Snowdon!

It's cold up here! Made it!

Thursday 23rd August 2007

Studland Ferry Swanage Railway

Sunday 19th August 2007

Thursday 9th August 2007

Tuesday 7th August 2007

Monday 6th August 2007

Wednesday 11th July 2007 (Railways Museum & Eden Camp WW2 Museum)

Tuesday 10th July 2007 (York Castle)

Monday 9th July 2007

Saturday 7th July 2007 (James Herriot)

Thursday 5th July 2007 (Last Of The Summer Wine)

Postcard from Wendy - "This is our hotel in the lakes..."

Wednesday 4th July 2007 (Hogwarts Station)

Tuesday 3rd July 2007 (Emmerdale)

Sunday 1st July 2007

Thursday 28th June 2007

Wednesday 27th June 2007

Saturday 16th June 2007

Friday 15th June 2007

A Giraffe called Yoda!

Tuesday 12th June 2007

Wednesday 6th June 2007

Monday 4th June 2007

Monday was a sunny day despite the forecast of rain. We went to Paington Zoo where we watched the antics of the monkeys and baboons and the bravest of us wobbled across the rope bridge. Another lovely dinner followed by two good singers.

Sunday 3rd June 2007

Today being Sunday some of the group chose to go to church while the others and Rita explored what was available in the area. We then went to the Living Coast where we lunched in the Blue Azure Cafe before visiting the exhibits.

Saturday 2nd June 2007

Today was sunny so we went to the beach at Broadhaven. We had a picnic lunch followed by ice creams. We then went to Brixham and Paignton. In the evening we were entertained by a lady singer.

Friday 1st June 2007

Arrived in Torquay and met at the Devonshire hotel. After a pleasant dinner we were entertained by a singer and comedian. The group members are Maggie, Janice, Sandra, Will, Ivor, Andrew, Lorraine and Cathy.