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Thanks for the pics, Ell & HnC,

Those of us some distance away were at least able to get the flavour of the event.

Maurice :)
 
There was still fences all the way around the site and security, plus bag searches, put me off a bit. Better seen from a distance. Plus crowds of people in queues near the jets.
 
Yes, Ell, same problem when we went to Pisa four years ago. If you wanted to ascend the Tower, you not only had a search, but had to leave all bags at ground level. Sorry, but I don't do that for anyone.

Maurice
 
Before I went to Pisa considered booking to go up the tower, but didn't in the end as half an hour for the price wasn't worth it. In the end was better to see it from the ground, although was thousands of tourists all over the place. But well worth seeing it.





And there is also people going around trying to sell stuff on the street! (necklaces / handbags etc). At least that doesn't happen in the UK.
 
I visited the Lloyd George Museum in North Wales last week, and I spotted these plaques as we were taken to Highgate the childhood home of David Lloyd George.





 
Ell,

Don't get me started on them. If you're driving, before you've even turned the engine off they are swarming all over you and you have use some rather choice language to get rid of them. Pompeii is even worse once you leave the archaeological site itself.

Maurice
 
sospiri said:
Ell,

Don't get me started on them. If you're driving, before you've even turned the engine off they are swarming all over you and you have use some rather choice language to get rid of them. Pompeii is even worse once you leave the archaeological site itself.

Maurice
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Ell & Maurice
The worst place is the Pyramids.
Bob
 
Bognor for me again this year (Bugger Bognor)






ellbrown said:
Before I went to Pisa considered booking to go up the tower, but didn't in the end as half an hour for the price wasn't worth it. In the end was better to see it from the ground, although was thousands of tourists all over the place. But well worth seeing it.





And there is also people going around trying to sell stuff on the street! (necklaces / handbags etc). At least that doesn't happen in the UK.
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The Hawker Hunter Fighter Bomber seen at the Anglesey Transport Museum, first flew in 1955. A rainy day in Anglesey a couple of weeks ago.







 
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