BS: 3 days in England

Subject: RE: BS: 3 days in England
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 06:44 AM

Jimmy, have you visited East Anglia yet? Norfolk and Suffolk are very beautiful, full of history and relatively unspoiled and undiscovered.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 days in England
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 07:07 AM

If you have any interest in seafaring, get down to Portsmouth and the old naval dockyard.
Walk the decks of Victory and Warrior.
Take the boat tour and stop off at the submarine depot where a submariner will take you around an old boat.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 days in England
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 07:59 AM

By all means, visit HMS VICTORY if you can find the time.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 days in England
From: Penny S.
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 03:30 PM

OK on the lanes, then - but there's loads of wallies about who use them without knowing the rules. And idiot delivery vans on satnavs. I didn't mean to imply anything about your driving Jimmy! (I get a bit peeved myself after being forced to reverse down a hill for the third time, and wanted to spare you that.)

If you want megaliths, there's a few tombs just off the Pilgrim's Way.

Medway Megaliths BBC

Medway Megaliths - Wikipedia

I couldn't find mapping that was any use since Google and Bing don't show the sites except as satellite images unlabelled, and the Ordnance Survey no longer uses OS maps with historical features on line.

These sites give map references which will find them on a paper map.

Western group

Eastern Group

Coldrum's good, but the Chestnuts, if shown round by the owner, is worth a detour.

Penny

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: 3 days in England
From: jimmyt
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 04:02 PM

thanks for the good info, Penny.

Eliza, My grandma came from Great Yarmouth,my father flew B17s out of Eye, Suffolk, my Uncle flew B24s out of Norwich. I have visited this beautiful area, both time staying at he Fisherman's Return, in Winterton-on-Sea. I love Eastanglia. Of course, I love every square meter of theUK I have seen. jimmyt

Subject: RE: BS: 3 days in England
From: Paul Burke
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 04:08 PM

You've not been to Mansfield then.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 days in England
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 04:43 PM

with that background you should visit the WW2 airfield of Duxford which is now a part of the Imperial War Museum.

Many US airmen make a pilgrimage there. There is a vast and impressive building for US military aviation, and a flying B17 I think.
There is a memorial with every lost US plane commemorated.
it is within striking distance of Cambridge.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 days in England
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 04:45 PM

http://www.iwm.org.uk/visits/iwm-duxford

Subject: RE: BS: 3 days in England
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 28 Jan 12 - 05:17 AM

The American Air Museum in Britain stands as a memorial to the 30,000 American airmen who gave their lives flying from UK bases in defence of liberty during the Second World War, and also honours those who fought in Korea, Vietnam, Libya, Iraq and other conflicts and battles of the 20th and 21st centuries.

This outstanding example of contemporary British architecture by Foster and Partners houses the largest collection of American warbirds on display outside the United States, including a vintage B-17 Flying Fortress, B-24 Liberator, B-25 Mitchell, P-47 Thunderbolt, and aircraft from the Cold War era such as a B-52 Stratofortress, SR-71 Blackbird and F-4 Phantom, with many suspended from the ceiling as if in flight.

'... a thoughtfully landscaped, handsomely designed aircraft hangar of a building ... The graceful structure is designed to fit around the wingspan of the terrifying Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bomber

Subject: RE: BS: 3 days in England
From: jacqui.c
Date: 28 Jan 12 - 08:38 AM

Kendall and I went to Duxford last year - he was most impressed and we spent quite a while looking at all the exhibits. I would definitely recommend the place - easy to get to from London.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 days in England
From: Charley Noble
Date: 28 Jan 12 - 05:55 PM

Cecil Sharp House Tuesday evenings if you'd like some folk music; it's in the Camden neighborhood of London. And they have a bar as well.

Then maybe down the river to the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: 3 days in England
From: foggers
Date: 28 Jan 12 - 06:18 PM

@Paul Burke- the only good things about Mansfield are the folk club now happily homed at the Black Bull, and the A617 which leads to the altogether superior town of Chesterfield......

Subject: RE: BS: 3 days in England
From: Jack Campin
Date: 28 Jan 12 - 09:01 PM

The Cutty Sark should be open for visits by the time you get here. If you, I can recommend the train ride there or back on the Docklands Light Railway at night - try to sit at the very front of the (driverless) train so you can see out the front window at all the lights. Feels like you're in the future of a 1950s science fiction story.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 days in England
From: Penny S.
Date: 29 Jan 12 - 01:32 PM

But the Cutty Sark and the Museum and the Observatory (with Prime Meridian) won't be open at night.

Pity the Pie and Mash shop's shut.

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: 3 days in England
From: Paul Burke
Date: 29 Jan 12 - 03:33 PM

Sorry Foggers, but a few years ago we took our canal boat up the canal - which is altogether beautiful APART FROM MANSFIELD. Long before we'd got through, we had no hubcaps....

Subject: RE: BS: 3 days in England
From: Kevin Sheils
Date: 30 Jan 12 - 04:18 AM

Just on the football front the end of April is difficult to plan for if thinking of a top Premier League match as the TV companies will not have picked their live matches yet and any could shift from Saturday to Sunday or Monday (or even to a different time on the Ssturday).

Not to mention how difficult it is to get tickets, you'll probably have to commit before knowing the actual match day. Also premier league football in London is IMO ridiculously overpriced.

In the 3 lower leagues you have plenty of local London options West Ham, Millwall, Watford and Crystal Palace in the Championship - Brentford in League 1 and Barnet in Lge 2.

If Witshire or Oxford then Swindon Town, Oxford United and Wycombe Wanderers are at Home - Yeovil Town a bit further but not too far from Wilts.

Better value at those I'd say.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 days in England
From: jimmyt
Date: 30 Jan 12 - 10:04 PM

I think we have decided on Brentford FC on Sat April 28. My good friend Leadfingers has put me on to this and it should be a terrific afternoon of Soccer, which I have no idea about anyway but my son absolutely loves. Thanks, for everyone's help. I think for our short stop inEngland, we will head to Rye and spend a couple days there in the Rye WIndmill B and B, go to Hastings, see Canterbury Cathedral, just wander about the area, see some flowers, rest a bit before heading in to the unpredictable area of Maramures, in northern Transylvania. this is an area that the Romans didn't even try to conquer, and the Communists pretty much ignored. I will give a full account about it when I get back. anyway, if anyone has any places in that area of East sussex and Kent that you think I should try to work in, let me know! Thanks

Subject: RE: BS: 3 days in England
From: Mo the caller
Date: 31 Jan 12 - 04:34 AM

Sounds like you've got it sorted.
But others might be looking for recommendations too and I wondered if the queues at the Tower of London (to get in and then to see the Crown Jewels) were as long as when I used to go with our visitors 50 years ago. They had signs at points in the queue estimating the time you would wait.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 days in England
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 31 Jan 12 - 05:22 AM

One of those coincidences ~~

As I was reading this, I had an e-mail from a cousin in Virginia, sending me the joke I had in fact come across not long since on one of Mudcat's joke threads, about the American conjoined twins who regularly visit UK, though they hate it, "because it's the only chance Jim gets to drive".

Seemed most strangely relevant to this thread: one of those "Perhaps there is a God after all" moments!

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: 3 days in England
From: Kevin Sheils
Date: 31 Jan 12 - 08:27 AM

Good choice Brentford, amongst their folk related supporters are the great UK singer songwriter Robb Johnson and mainstay of our local music scene in East London Graham Larkbey.

I see they are playing Sheffield Wednesday that day, who should bring a good crowd and atmosphere.

More importantly though, since you state you're not a soccer fan, the ground has a Fullers pub on all 4 corners so drinks before are not to be missed. We usually use the "Griffin" corner of Braemar Road and Brook Road South, nearest to the main entrance, on our rare visits.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 days in England
From: jimmyt
Date: 31 Jan 12 - 10:51 AM

Thanks Kevin.

MtheGM,helluva funny joke!

Subject: RE: BS: 3 days in England
From: Jack Campin
Date: 31 Jan 12 - 01:47 PM

If you are going through Budapest on your way to Romania you could drop in to a "táncház" (dance house) - there is at least one every night of the week and some of them specialize in dances from various Hungarian regions of Romania.

Táncház listing 2011

The listing should be updated shortly but won't vary much from year to year. Both the dances and the music are more similar to Romanian stuff than either Hungarians or Romanians will generally admit, so it'll be useful practice for what you'll find in the culturally Romanian parts of Romania.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 days in England
From: Jack Campin
Date: 31 Jan 12 - 04:14 PM

Hungarian music and dance from Maramaros/Maramures:

Muszikas

Romanian pieces:

fiddle tune

*extremely* Romanian fiddle tunes

Some absolutely astonishing Gypsy music:

Nicolae Covaci of Dragomiresti, fiddle with a unique accompaniment

Following related links from those will get you lots of interesting stuff. In particular the videos of Nicolae Covaci are wonderful. And they were made only last year! He's an extraordinary link to the past and in your position I'd make every effort possible to hear him.