The UK.

[klinger]

Hello chaps and Ladies, I,ve been lucky enough to have visited the good old US of A 3 times, Washington, Boston and Miami. Just wondered how many of you have been to the UK and what towns/Cities did you visit? cheers klinger.

 

[referee54]

I teach British Lit---Beowulf, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Wordsworth---and I will hopefuly be coming to the British Isles next year---I would love to see Britian---North Umberland and Scotland as well.

Tim C.

 

[Doug]

Tim you teach Literature??? Now I'm going to be self conscious about my writing...

Klinger, Never been there. It is one of those dream trips I would love to make..I don't even have a passport. But then until this year, most Americans didn't. Post 9/11 rules changes.

 

[Jamie]

I would LOVE to visit the UK and my husband and I plan to someday make an extended visit to Europe. I was born in Frankfurt, Germany right after the end of WWII. My dad was an Air Force officer stationed there from 1946-1949. My mom traveled on a steam ship filled with war brides to join him in 1947 and I came along in 1948. My Dad was a great photographer and I have many photos of the towns and countryside in Germany and Switzerland. My greatest treasure is a large round slab of marble that Dad bought Mom as a gift while in Germany. He had a craftsman make a simple wood base for it and it was a coffee table in our house for years. Later he found a claw foot oak base and that is what I have now. I just cannot believe that piece of marble made it thorough all our Air Force moves over the years.

 

[klinger]

Now I would love to do route 66. What I,d like to do is meet some Americans from towns, I,ve only ever met big-city people ,which if its anything like London you just dont get the real feel of what folk are really like, if you know what I mean.

 

[Jamie]

I agree, Klinger. In our travels, we love to stay in small towns at Bed and Breakfasts so that you really get a chance to meet "normal" local people. We have NEVER had a bad time doing that. You would have a blast doing a driving trip. Your only problem would be figuring out what to do in a limited time. There is so much to see in our country. Here's hoping you make it some time.

 

[klinger]

Yeah I agree Jamie you all live in such a massive and diverse land that I imagine you still have a lot of your own country to see, all takes time what. In fact its so big that I do believe that I,m closer to your east coast than New York is to california. Takes some thinking about that dosnt it. You,ve actually got states bigger than the UK! When I was in Boston a local did ask me if I knew his aunt back in the uk, my reply was which of the 58,000,000 people back home is she? ha!ha!

 

[Skeet]

I've been to London and Manchester. Also visit Dublin quite often for business and a couple times I went to Edinburgh. Don't know how broadly you consider the UK. Does it include Scotland?? I think of you all broadly as the British Isles.

Tim, my daughter is an English major with an emphasis in writing and a minor in History. She loves the classics as does her Dad. Actually got me to read the real Frankenstein. SOOOO much better than any movie ever!

 

[Josephine]

I teach British Lit---Beowulf, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Wordsworth---and I will hopefuly be coming to the British Isles next year---I would love to see Britian---North Umberland and Scotland as well.

Tim C.

Northumberland - just next door. Pop in for a cuppa when you come.

 

[Doug]

Well, I'm going to Sopchoppy for the Worm Gruntin Festival in a few weeks....Now figure that one out..

 

[Josephine]

 

[1jt@atime]

Hi Klinger,
I was in London the week of Thanksgiving, 2006. I will always remember that trip because that was when I realized that I could no longer put off my knee replacements. I could hardly walk and though I got to see a lot, it wasn't nearly as much as I would have, had my joints worked better.

I used to live in Germany, between Munich and Salzberg and spent a lot of my weekends sightseeing all around Europe. I am trying to get a job transfer back that way later this year. I love Europe and all the History. You are right about small towns, here or there. That's the place to go. Karen,

 

[Skeet]

So, Doug, are you a worm grunter? You going to run for Worm Monarch? Or is this just where you get fishin' bait? Sounds like fun. I've never been to Sopchoppy or to the Worm Gruntin Ball... I can only imagine the attire...

 

[Newwoman]

Hi Klinger,
It's Cathy in Ohio and I've been lucky enough to have traveled to London twice and loved it both times. It was so amazingly clean and the people very polite. Our only problem this last time 2006 was the high cost because of the exchange rate.
We stayed both times in hotels along Hyde Park and did a lot of walking. We would walk through Hyde Park and go to Harrods. I thought I was going to die. Maybe that would be easier now but have to wait longer than the 11 weeks out I am tomorrow.
Cathy

 

[Doug]

Skeet, figures you would know about gruntin. Sopchoppy is a town between Tallahassee and the coast..It is boardered by a natonal forest. It is a trip back in time. The festival is that , gruntin. Not grunting. There are booths set up with fried turkey, gator and just about anything else that flys, swims, walks or crawls. 4X4 trucks dressed in mud tires are the norm. I enjoy going just to watch the people.
I do believe there is a Worm Gruntin Queen.

 

[Mr.Valery Korobeynyk]

Dear Mrs.Josephine,
I am from Ukraine, live in this Forum too (I am after Hip Replacement only 5 weeks) and must say that Forum is extremely interesting and helpful for me. Thank you ever so much and for your very kind letters to me.
Now I can see that here there is Recovery Discussion "UK", but it is Knee Replacement.
I was many years ago in Coventry, England. It was Great and I am till now remind that travel.
I would like to write to your "UK" but I don't know whether maybe it'll be too much writing, indelicate or incorrect?
Help me, please, with your advice.
Yours sincerely,
Valery, [email protected]

Northumberland - just next door. Pop in for a cuppa when you come.

 

[edk]

Been to London numerous times, Did the whole driving tour to Manchester, Milton Keynes (go ahead and chuckle), the cotswolds, a couple of day trips to Bath and Oxford

 

[Nursepair]

Chuckle, chuckle, actually I think I went to a good mall in Milton Keynes once when we lined in the UK.

 

[Josephine]

MILTON KEYNES???

 

[edk]

MILTON KEYNES???

Yeah I landed in London and was supposed to give a talk at the University in Manchester and some group in Milton Keynes. Every time I told people I was going to Milton Keynes they would sort of chuckle and appologize for it. (For those who don't know the joke it is a
planned community. Mall in the middle with streets going east and west lettered and streets running north and south numbered (or vice versa). All steel and glass - like flying off to England and spending the night in a 60's office building.