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| Flowers at Monk's House, Virginia Woolf's country home |
What's more tedious than looking at someone's trip photos? (Not much) After our last trip, I posted photos of things I thought were particularly English.
This time: various. These are from our recent two-week trip to Normandy and England. If you're game, here it goes...
Field Farm B&B, Surrey, a working sheep farm where we stayed the first night.
From our bedroom window
The breakfast room. Note the ketchup and HP sauce.
A visit to Monk's House, Rodmell, on the way to the Channel ferry
Leonard and Virginia Woolf's country house viewed from the back garden
In the living room
Floor lamp
Bust of Virginia Woolf in the dining room
Virginia Woolf's bedroom
The grounds
A lawnmower?
Leaving Newhaven for Dieppe, France, on a cloudy day.
The cathedral in the town of Bayeux, our base for exploring D-Day memorials and museums.
Abba songs played by a brass band.
Around town in Bayeux
At the British Cemetery for WWII dead in Bayeux
Jerry at the D-Day museum in Arromanches
At the American Cemetery and Memorial, near Colleville-sur-mer
Les Braves, a sculpture at Omaha Beach by Anilore Banon, signifying The Wings of Hope; Rise, Freedom!; and The Wings of Fraternity
At Pointe du Hoc, where U.S. Army Rangers scaled 90-foot cliffs on D-Day
Mannequins of GIs at the Le Roosevelt Cafe at Utah Beach, near the village of St. Marie-du-Mont
Landing craft at the Utah Beach Museum
Our last evening in Bayeux
Twilight view of the Bayeux Cathedral from our room
The white cliffs as we came into Newhaven on the Channel ferry
The Richard Onslow Pub/B&B in Cranleigh, Surrey, our base in England
With three of my six English cousins: Clement (second from left), Sally (second from right), and Marion (right).
Tea on the Terrace at Leith Hill Place, a National Trust property in Surrey
Leith Hill Tower, Surrey
What you don't see on Masterpiece Theater: A toilet/lavatory/WC at Upton House, a stately home near Banbury
A doorway in Brailes, my mother's family's ancestral village in the Cotswolds
The Crypt Cafe, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London. We stayed at the nearby Amba Charing Cross Hotel.
With my cousin Sue in London. I'd made a quilt to give her (see below).
A highly anticipated visit to Liberty, my first since 2008
The fabric department is called "Haberdashery." (Why?)
Jerry dozing while I shopped.
Succulents for sale in the Liberty flower shop
On board the London Eye, the huge Ferris-wheel that affords 30 minutes of spectacular views.
Houses of Parliament from the London Eye
We floated by London City Hall on our trip up the Thames to Greenwich
At Heathrow Airport: a photo of a plane flying over San Francisco Bay in 1956. With a magnifying glass, you can see the Bay Bridge.
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Just before we left, I threw together this simple quilt for my cousin Sue:
Fabrics include Liberty fabric from our first trip to London, Barbara Brachman copies of William Morris prints, and two fabrics bought in Paris in 2008. Quilted by Angie Woolman.
