Caerphilly Castle

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 Pembroke Heritage Centre

Gillie was chasing information on her Mother’s cousin who flew Sunderland’s out of Pembroke Doc during the war.  We walked into the Penbroke Heritage centre and Gillie spoke to the first guy, we were buying tickets from about what she was looking for and for the next 2 hours she had volunteers finding her info, calling other experts, etc.  Gillie had a blast.

 National Motorcycle Museum - Birmingham 

Over 1000 British motorcycles with over 850 on display.   170 different British manufacturers.  

22 July 2024

 Cambridge

Some the sights of Cambridge.  One think I didn’t know is that Cambridge University is actually a 31 colleges that are combined to make the university.

 IWM - Imperial War Museums

17th July

The IWM is an operational airfield with a list of very very large hangers full of planes. To give you an idea of size the hanger area is about 1.5km long

 Eurotunnel.

This is a short piece of dashcam video showing the Eurotunnel process.  The French call it Le Shuttel.

 Ypres or Ieper

8th July 2024

Gill wanted to visit the Menin Gate and my great, great uncle’s grave site.  The Menin Gate is totally covered in scaffolding at the moment, So I’v upload a picture off the web below.

At the Menin Gate they have a ceremony every day at 8:00 pm where they play the last post and lay a wreath.  The day we were there, my guess was there was somewhere around 500 plus people. They have been doing this every day since 2nd July 1927.

The Menin Gate was packed inside and out with people. I thought I’d upload our video as is.

   Ypres 

 Wurzburg

4 July 2024

Spent 2 nights at Wurzburg in a car park 

 Regensburg

We took a bus from the campsite into Regensburg train station where Andy and Alina were waiting for us. We all hopped on a train and went 9/10th of the way and then on a bus to get to Kelheim. Kelheim is a beautiful small town about 25km away from Regensburg. We looked around the old town, then took a tourist Toot train up the hill to see a monument. The monument was built by King Ludwig to remember the defeat of Napoleon. Toot train back down to the Danube river for a ferry ride through a rocky gorge to an old monastery that had a small church and a large beer garden in the courtyard. 

For dinner we caught up with one of Andy’s friends “Andy calls him the coolest German” and I think he is correct. 

The following day, it was Regensburg’s old town, the cathedral, glass museum, etc. Then dinner with a different friend “Paula” …an amazing lady!

An absolute awesome few days, with the greatest of friends.