Hi this is Wanda from NB, Canada

  I found this site by accident, I was doing some research for a trip my daughter and I are taking in June and July this year.  The pictures are wonderful, it is grand to see some of the places we will be visiting before we get there.   This will be my second trip to England, my sister and I went in 2006 and had a wonderful time, so I decided to take my daughter this time as a graduation present. 

 I am a genealogy buff and have done a lot of research on my father's side (Marshall) of the family, they came from the Gloucestershire area but alas I have hit a brick wall with that research.  I do love to quilt and read, I am newly retired and will get much more time for all of that now.  This seems to be a wonderful site, I am sure I will enjoy it.

Hello Wanda. Let me be the first to welcome you to POE and the forum. Yes there are a lot of photo's on the site, it can take you months to see them all.

We are a lively bunch on here, but we also try to help if we can. So come in to the forums and join in, we have a laugh and joke, all in the best possible taste dont you know.

Looking forward to your vissits.

Peter Evans

Bloomin S key stuck. Sheesh. lol

Thank you.  We beat that Ron though didnt we.

  Hi Thank you for the kind welcome.  We are going on a pretty long tour, starting in London, Oxford, Statford ( my daughter is a real Shakespeare buff, and is actually honouring in Shakespeare) next onto Coventry, York, Scotch Corner, Jedburgh, Melrose, Edinburgh, St. Andrews, Braemar, Culloden, Inverness, Strathpeffer, Ullapool, Armadale, Mallaig, Fort William, Glasgow, Alloway, Stranraer - the we cross the Irish Sea and take in Belfast, Derry, Belleek, Drumcliff, Sligo, Galway, Killimer, Tarbert, Killarney, Blarney Dungarvan, Tramore, Waterford, Avoca, Glenalough, Dublin - we then cross to Holyhead and travel to Chester, Wrexham, Llangollen, Ludlow, Cardiff, Bath, Glastonbury Widecombe in the Moor, St Ives, Lands End, St. Michael's Mount, Plymouth, Salisbury, Arundel, Brighton, Lewes, Royal Tunbridge Wells, then back to London and home. 

This will be quite a trip for her - I may have to break her the bad news though, what is the drinking age in the UK? In New Brunswick it is 19, I was thinking it was 21, she doesn't turn 21 until we get back.

Thank you again for the kind welcome!!

Not to worry Wanda, the drinking age here is 18, so she is old enough to drink here.

That is some tour you are on, will you have enough time to sleep?  By the way, when you visit Cardiff, just outside of Cardiff are 2 castles that you may like to see. Castle Coch and Caerphilly Castle. Both are within a 30 minute drive.

I hope you enjoy your stay here in the UK, but it sounds like you are going to need a holiday to get over it. lol