After our journey through the woodlands, following the trails of the gods and planets we reached the car park and took a short drive to the Tudor City Park:
The Tudor City Park covers 40 hectares. There is a physic garden, beehives and Tudor-style castle. *
The castle is now a restaurant and conference centre which is [...]
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Tudor City Park
4 Comments CherryPie on Nov 25th 2010
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Gods and Planets
In the grounds just outside the cafeteria, next to the nature centre and planetarium are a number of statues which feature Gods and their related planets. These statues stretched out into the woodlands back to the car park. There was speculation on whether the distances between them was representative to the distances between the planets. [...]
19 Comments CherryPie on Nov 24th 2010
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The Light at the End of the Tunnel…
…led to the cafeteria.
On first inspection it looked a little shut, but then the proprietor came to our assistance. It seems we were quite lucky, they were supposed to be closed but had opened because it was the school holidays. I think they must have been glad of our custom because we were the only [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Nov 22nd 2010
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Beisbroek
Following the visit to the abbey we moved on to Beisbroek which is just outside Bruges and is one of two big country estates situated side by side in the woods. Beisbroek covers 80 hectares and contains trees, footpaths, heathland, picnic areas, a deer compound, a cafeteria and a castle that serves as interactive nature [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Nov 21st 2010
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Festive Gift Fair
It was that time of year again when I finally allow myself to think of the Christmas season. I set of with my Mum to visit the festive gift fair in Birmingham. Luckily for us the threat of industrial action from one of the train companies was called off at the last minute.
The journey there [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Nov 20th 2010
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PhotoHunt – Juicy
The meal in this restaurant was a trip down memory lane. The food was as good as ever, but the service wasn’t quite so attentive as it was on the previous visit there.
Absent friends were dearly missed.
I am sure you can see from the pics that the food was juicy and succulent.
For more of this [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Nov 19th 2010
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Sint-Trudoabdij Male – Last Look Around
I share with you some just a couple more views of the monastery grounds before we leave for the next point of call on the journey.
The third photo shows the tree lined route to our next destination.
8 Comments CherryPie on Nov 18th 2010
