Moving home agian 1999 - 2002

In Cornwall by the sea side

In 1999 my husband and I moved to Coventry, my home city I left 23 years ago to find a new life, the city where my siblings still lived in. Due to my husband’s deteriorating ill health our lives in a slow lane continued to find ways and means of travelling to nearby and sometimes places further afield. Listed below are the final trips we managed together from 1999 to 2002:  

Gloucester…I drove with my husband to Gloucester to fly high up in the sky in a balloon knowing well enough that my husband was afraid of heights. The fields below were full of poppies and the sky above was blue and clear and there was no sound to be heard;  all seemed surreal, beautiful and thrilling experience for me but my husband was glad to get his feet back on the ground again.

Belgium by Euro train from Coventry, what an adventure to meet a friend who lived outside Brussels and have drink of beer and eat mussels Belgium style  and return home to Coventry safe and sound.

                           Anglesey by public transport to be by the sea side and the rain.

 Blackpool by public transport  in year 2000 for my 50^th birthday ( thus avoiding any surprise party at home but came back to one waiting for me any way!!).
 Farmhouse   2002 outside Leamington for a short break from home for lazy days, counting the sheep and watching the farmer at work.

 London   caught the National Express coach to see London where my husband was born near the Bucks House, Westminster!

                              Warwick country home for good food and a visit to the Warwick castle.

 Coombe Abbey, Coventry within 30 minutes drive from our home. A grand Medieval style hotel came with services of all the staff dressed in Medieval costumes, serving Medieval food;  morning wake up call was a Monk reciting a Medieval hymn down the phone line, certainly woke me up! One night stay was enough to experience the walk on the wild side of the Medieval life where acres and acres of empty woodland was ours during the evening of our arrival and the following morning before our return home, to face the real life!