Sunday, September 26, 2010
A Walk on the South Downs
Saturday September 25th
During breakfast Marianne asked Mary if she knew the Marion Fowler from Wanganui and the name rang a bell. They had met a NZ woman in a campsite in Salzburg who was travelling around for 11 months in a campervan. They were going to back to NZ and February and would be travelling down to Wanganui to stay with the Fowlers. They could not believe it. Only 2 degrees of separation in NZ; If you don’t know someone it doesn’t take much to find a person you know who knows them.
It was a beautiful fine sunny morning and after breakfast they loaded me up again and set out to drive to Brighton. On the way they stopped by the village to take a photo of the Noah’s Ark Pub in daylight in the village of Lurgeshall.
The trip was on country roads rather than motorway and involved lots of roundabouts and narrow roads that were impossible to overtake on, so there were a few frustrated motorists caught behind me as I don’t do fast.
The Tom Tom did an excellent job of taking them into Brighton on a road that avoided a big traffic jam. They arrived at Jacquie and Pete Brett’s in time for lunch. After lunch they all set off of for quite a long walk over the South Downs. Once up on the top there was a wonderful view right over the whole area.
Back home Lucy and Adam wanted to see inside me and found the feathers and fur and immediately made friends with them and they are now making friends with all the toys ins the house so I can’t imagine what they are getting up to. Ber Lin is having a marvellous time meeting other bears, and the kiwis are having rides on cars and trucks all around the lounge.
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You painted out the red 'Hemi'? Wen do you get back to nz?
ReplyDeleteTell Warwick I said hi :-)
ReplyDeleteThe red Hemi had been taken off by the time we got the van because the ugy who owned it didn't think he would end up selling it to a Kiwi. It was red tape and you can still see it faintly. Couldn't see the point in spending ages putting it up again.
ReplyDeleteWarwick asked after you and I got him up to date with your doings. Back in NZ Oct 28th.