-=> On 08-24-96  13:03, Suzze Tiernan said something about Grimes to 
der.......
 Hi, Suzze...
 
 DER> This must have originally been in one of the mail packets I lost when
 DER> I was setting up my new communications program!  What a wonderful idea!
 DER> I know exactly where we'll start...The White Hart...in Witley, Surrey.
 DER> Beautiful little pub, established before the Pilgrim set off on their
 DER> great adventure.  There's an old Church just up the hill a little way
 DER> that was built in Norman times. Let's see, what else would you like to
 DER> see?  If we go in the spring, there is wonderful wooded area just down
 DER> the road where the blue bells are so thick that it looks like blue
 DER> grass, and aroma is heavenly.  There is a little brook to paddle in,
 DER> or a nice quiet lake to fish for trout...
 
 ST> I am there in my mind alraedy. 
 
I think that is something that readers have, over and above the general
population...the ability to IMAGINE!!
 
 DER> About ten miles from there is Guildford...the highstreet is paved with
 DER> cobblestones laid by the Romans, there are the ruins of St. Catherines
 DER> Abbey, which Henry VIII burned during his great snit, the Cathedral, a
 DER> really nice little pub just down the hill from St Catherines, where
 DER> the Pilgrims actually stayed on their journey to the Mayflower...
 
 ST> I can't imagine things that OLD. The USA is so new!
 
I am ashamed to admit it...(head hung in shame, big toe drawing circles
in the sand)...all of that "old" stuff bored me to death when I lived
there!  I grew up in an old, stone cottage that was built in the 1700's.
For a few years, we didn't have hot water, a bathtub or a flush toilet.
We lived with my Grandparents, used one of those old glavanized tubs to
bathe in once a week, and my Nanna did all of the cooking on a coal
stove.  Now, that I am MUCH older, I have a real appreciation for those
things!
 
 DER> How long do we have for this "fact finding" tour? 
 DER> Get your passports ready!!
 
 ST> Let's leave it open-ended!!
 
I'm game!  From Guildford, we should go on to London, about 30 miles.
We can do the usual tourist things...Madame Toussauds, The Tower,
Buckingham Palace, the Victoria and Albert Museum, St. Pauls Cathedral,
Westminster Cathedral, Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament, New Scotland Yard.
We can get on a boat at the Tower, and float down the Thames to Greenwich
Village..see the Maritime Chapel, with it's magnificent ceiling, and the 
lock
from whence comes Greenwich Mean Time. From there we will go a little
further down river to visit Hampton Court Palace and the Maze.  We can
go to nice little pub that I kow of on the river for a nice pub supper,
crawl back to our rooms, and get ready to travel North to
Stratford-on-Avon and the Lake District.
 
der
 
... Therapy is good...but screaming obsceneties is cheaper.
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