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== [[Portsmouth]] ==
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== 1st day (11 April) — [[Portsmouth]] ==
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=== The fair ===
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=== Clarence Pier ===
  
 
<wz tip="The attractions you have the right to access when you are 1.25m high. No Super Trooper or Music Trip for Julia this time, whatever that was.">[[File:fair-Portsmouth-11Apr-2022-13.png|left|100px]]</wz> By far the most appreciated part of our stay in Portsmouth was the fair, for which we acquired a special "bracelet" option that allowed us to enjoy 10 attractions for a reasonable price, also playing the trick of using one bracelet's two tickets to admit two people, which, it was our understanding, was not allowed as bracelets are individual and their tickets should be taken off at the entry, but people were merely collecting them so in this way, Elena could squeeze her way in in those attractions that required an adult accompanier without paying the nifty sum. The favorite one could also, in this way, be repeated. Because attractions are so expensive, even with the discount, there are few people on most of them. For one of the few attractions that Luz could enjoy, we had ran out of tickets but Luz liked it so much, making such a plea to do it again, in Spanish, that the Spanish national in charge of it told us we could stay for the next run, but that we'd have to wait for more people to come in. When it became clear that no more people were coming in, we had a ride all by ourselves.
 
<wz tip="The attractions you have the right to access when you are 1.25m high. No Super Trooper or Music Trip for Julia this time, whatever that was.">[[File:fair-Portsmouth-11Apr-2022-13.png|left|100px]]</wz> By far the most appreciated part of our stay in Portsmouth was the fair, for which we acquired a special "bracelet" option that allowed us to enjoy 10 attractions for a reasonable price, also playing the trick of using one bracelet's two tickets to admit two people, which, it was our understanding, was not allowed as bracelets are individual and their tickets should be taken off at the entry, but people were merely collecting them so in this way, Elena could squeeze her way in in those attractions that required an adult accompanier without paying the nifty sum. The favorite one could also, in this way, be repeated. Because attractions are so expensive, even with the discount, there are few people on most of them. For one of the few attractions that Luz could enjoy, we had ran out of tickets but Luz liked it so much, making such a plea to do it again, in Spanish, that the Spanish national in charge of it told us we could stay for the next run, but that we'd have to wait for more people to come in. When it became clear that no more people were coming in, we had a ride all by ourselves.
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== Salisbury ==
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== 2nd day (12 April) — [[Salisbury]] ==
  
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=== Around and in the Cathedral ===
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File:Salisbury-12Apr2022-1.jpg|Little cottages on the edge of the old center...
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File:Salisbury-12Apr2022-2.jpg|turning into mansions as one gets closer to the cathedral.
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File:Salisbury-12Apr2022-3.jpg|Julia in the heart of Salisbury.
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File:Salisbury-12Apr2022-4.jpg|The cathedral's façade.
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File:Salisbury-12Apr2022-6.jpg|In the cathedral.
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File:Salisbury-12Apr2022-5.jpg|They shall not overwhelm you.
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File:Salisbury-12Apr2022-7.jpg|More lights inside than outside.
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File:Salisbury-12Apr2022-8.jpg|Luz taking a break from the visit.
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File:Salisbury-12Apr2022-9.jpg|Back to the tour.
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File:Salisbury-12Apr2022-10.jpg|In the Chapter house of the [[Magna Carta]], with the impressive medieval frieze.
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File:Salisbury-12Apr2022-11.jpg|The Cloister. Can you see Julia?
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File:Salisbury-12Apr2022-12.jpg|Here she is.
File:Salisbury-12Apr2022-15.jpg
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File:Salisbury-12Apr2022-15.jpg|Beautiful British home that seems to be lost somewhere in [[Wiltshire]] but which is right in front of the Cathedral.
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File:Salisbury-12Apr2022-16.jpg|Britain's tallest spire and housing the oldest working clock.
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File:Salisbury-12Apr2022-17.jpg|Stealing the protagonism.
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File:Salisbury-12Apr2022-18.jpg|Julia being moody.
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File:Salisbury-12Apr2022-19.jpg|Towards the city center.
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File:Salisbury-12Apr2022-20.jpg|The High street gate, [[13th Century]].
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File:Salisbury-12Apr2022-21.jpg|The Poultry cross, a historic crossing of markets dating to the 1450s.
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File:Salisbury-12Apr2022-22.jpg|Luz waiting for lunch.
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File:Salisbury-12Apr2022-23.jpg|A detour to see the [[Avon]].
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File:Salisbury-12Apr2022-24.jpg|Luz preferred to use that time for a walking nap.
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File:Salisbury-12Apr2022-25.jpg|Salisbury museum.
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File:Salisbury-12Apr2022-27.jpg|A gargoyle from the cathedral.
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File:Salisbury-12Apr2022-28.jpg|Brick houses on some other flanck of the cathedral.
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File:Salisbury-12Apr2022-31.jpg|The pride of British aesthetism.
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File:Salisbury-12Apr2022-30.jpg|The Chapter house: the place of the most valuable treasures of Salisbury and our final sight for this visit.
 
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== Salisbury Museum ==
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=== Salisbury Museum ===
  
 
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== Warminster ==
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== 3rd day (13 April) — Around Warminster ==
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=== Smallbrook Meadows ===
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File:smallbrook-13Apr2022-1.jpg|Our spot for the night, in the morning.
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File:smallbrook-13Apr2022-2.jpg|Neighbors we woke up with.
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File:smallbrook-13Apr2022-5.jpg|All types of birds, big and small.
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File:smallbrook-13Apr2022-3.jpg|All by the local river "the Were".
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File:smallbrook-13Apr2022-4.jpg|Path by the Meadows.
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File:smallbrook-13Apr2022-6.jpg|The morning Easter egg hunt.
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=== Warminster ===
  
 
'''''Warminster''''' is an old market town. We visited it since it was so close to our previous settlement, in fact almost toying with the idea of a nightly visit from the park, which would have been enough as it takes more time to park than to run through its main (market) street.
 
'''''Warminster''''' is an old market town. We visited it since it was so close to our previous settlement, in fact almost toying with the idea of a nightly visit from the park, which would have been enough as it takes more time to park than to run through its main (market) street.
  
 
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File:warminster-13Apr2022-1.jpg|The Old Bell hotel on the main street.
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File:warminster-13Apr2022-2.jpg|Still a busy market street.
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File:warminster-13Apr2022-3.jpg|Envious of a privileged spot.
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File:warminster-13Apr2022-4.jpg|Testimony of a glorious recent past.
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File:warminster-13Apr2022-6.jpg|The main church, that brought the city its minster status.
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File:warminster-13Apr2022-5.jpg|The town hall and our most extreme walking point.
 
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=== Farleigh Hungerford Castle ===
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File:FarleighHungerford-13April2022-1.jpg|Circular tower.
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File:FarleighHungerford-13April2022-2.jpg|Inside the chapel.
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File:FarleighHungerford-13April2022-3.jpg|Family tomb.
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File:FarleighHungerford-13April2022-4.jpg|The Hungerford family fortune changed with the [[War of the Roses]].
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File:FarleighHungerford-13April2022-5.jpg|The family then lost their lives and castle to the Crown.
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File:FarleighHungerford-13April2022-6.jpg|Only the memory of their past glory now stands on this spot.
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=== Westwood Manor & Saint Mary's church ===
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File:Westwood-13Apr2022-1.jpg|Saint Mary's church.
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File:Westwood-13Apr2022-2.jpg|The [[devil]] of [[Limpley Stoke]].
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File:Westwood-13Apr2022-3.jpg|Luz with the toys section of the church.
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File:Westwood-13Apr2022-4.jpg|Someone keeping buzy outside.
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File:Westwood-13Apr2022-5.jpg|Westwood Manor.
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File:Westwood-13Apr2022-6.jpg|A companion to Saint Mary.
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File:Westwood-13Apr2022-7.jpg|Taste of the time: a gallery of English monarchs, to mimick the customs of more prestigious places.
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File:Westwood-13Apr2022-8.jpg|People actually live there and one can find their private pictures among the exhibit.
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File:Westwood-13Apr2022-9.jpg|What they can enjoy when tourists have left.
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File:Westwood-13Apr2022-10.jpg|From the manor to the park.
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File:Westwood-13Apr2022-11.jpg|Small but richly adorned.
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File:Westwood-13Apr2022-12.jpg|The British care of their gardens, whatever their size.
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=== Iford Manor ===
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File:IfordManor-13Apr2022-7.jpg|The Iford Manor as seen from its gardens.
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File:IfordManor-13Apr2022-1.jpg|The stairs to the gardens.
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File:IfordManor-13Apr2022-2.jpg|On the edge where the gardens become the forest.
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File:IfordManor-13Apr2022-3.jpg|These stairs end up in a road bordering the estate.
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File:IfordManor-13Apr2022-4.jpg|[[Romulus and Remus]].
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File:IfordManor-13Apr2022-5.jpg|The Iford bridge from the manor's gardens.
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File:IfordManor-13Apr2022-6.jpg|A manor hiding inside a garden.
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File:IfordManor-13Apr2022-8.jpg|A little dependency in basilic style.
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File:IfordManor-13Apr2022-9.jpg|Japanese style.
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File:IfordManor-13Apr2022-10.jpg|A house in Iford.
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File:IfordManor-13Apr2022-11.jpg|The manor by the river Frome.
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File:IfordManor-13Apr2022-13.jpg|On the bridge.
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File:IfordManor-13Apr2022-14.jpg|Julia and Britannia, back to back.
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File:IfordManor-13Apr2022-15.jpg|All of Iford in one picture.
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File:IfordManor-13Apr2022-16.jpg|Houses down the road.
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=== Bradford on Avon ===
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File:bradford-on-avon-13April2022-1.jpg
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=== Dundas acquaduct ===
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== 4th day (14 April) — [[Bath]] ==
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File:Bath-14Apr2022-31.jpg
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File:Bath-14Apr2022-32.jpg|Waiting for dusk for a night view of the panoramic Bath.
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=== The Globe ===
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File:TheGlobe-Apr2022-3.jpg|The field nearby.
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File:TheGlobe-Apr2022-1.jpg|Morning dressing.
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File:TheGlobe-Apr2022-2.jpg|Does this look like a pub's car park?
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== 5th day (15 April) — [[Bristol]] ==
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== Bristol Museum ==
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File:BristolMuseum-15Apr2022-1.jpg|The [[New Delhi]]'s fort witnessing the Delhi Durbar of [[1903]] (reception during the British rule of [[India]]) by Roderick Dempster MacKenzie.
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File:BristolMuseum-15Apr2022-2.jpg|In the map section, the [[Avon]] meets the [[Severn]] where [[Somerset]]shire and [[Gloucestershire]] kiss.
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File:BristolMuseum-15Apr2022-3.jpg|The precious stones section.
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File:BristolMuseum-15Apr2022-4.jpg|The Bristol diamonds.
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File:BristolMuseum-15Apr2022-5.jpg|Luz and eternity (touching allowed).
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File:BristolMuseum-15Apr2022-6.jpg|Missed encounter.
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File:BristolMuseum-15Apr2022-7.jpg|The surprisingly cozy interior of a gypsy roulotte.
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File:BristolMuseum-15Apr2022-8.jpg|The painting section.
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File:BristolMuseum-15Apr2022-9.jpg|Luz observing (''Holidays'' by Harry Watson in background).
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File:BristolMuseum-15Apr2022-10.jpg|Detail of ''Holidays''.
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File:BristolMuseum-15Apr2022-11.jpg|Detail of ''the Israelites passing through the Wilderness, preceded by the Pillar of Light'' by William West.
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File:BristolMuseum-15Apr2022-12.jpg|The modern section.
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File:BristolMuseum-15Apr2022-14.jpg|Back to a more classical room.
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File:BristolMuseum-15Apr2022-15.jpg|A stop by Leandro Bassano's "Return of the Prodigal Son", 16th century.
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File:BristolMuseum-15Apr2022-16.jpg|Julia found a Spanish master: [[Murillo]], here with one of his 'Ecce Homo' (1660-70).
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File:BristolMuseum-15Apr2022-17.jpg|[[Renoir]].
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File:BristolMuseum-15Apr2022-18.jpg|In a corner with the impressionists.
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File:BristolMuseum-15Apr2022-19.jpg|Detail of Jean-Louis Forain's "the Unwed Mother", capturing the detachment and coarseness of a lawyer.
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== 6th day ==
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=== [[Bristol]] ===
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File:Bristol-15Apr2022-24.jpg
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== 7th Day (16 April) — Wye Valley ==
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=== Eagle's nest and Devil's pulpit ===
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== 8th Day (17 April) — Chepstow and Severn channel ==
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=== Chepstow ===
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File:Chepstow-17Apr2022-10.jpg|Dating of these doors showed them to be no later than the [[1190]]s, making them the oldest known castle doors in Europe.
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=== Severn ===
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File:Wolverhampton-17Apr2022.jpg|The end of our trip: a good bathtub (in [[Wolverhampton]]) after over a week on the road!
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MOT trip through
Salisbury, Bath & Bristol

While this is something that mattered very little a few minutes after the problem was solved, it is one that kept us anxiously for months, uncertain how to address the issue: our campervan got immobilized in Spain during the pandemic for having missed the technical inspection (MOT in English), which was not possible to do in Spain, because in Spain campers are inspected as campers, not cars (in UK they are inspected as cars). We thus had to make a trip dedicated to fixing the MOT, at the closest possible point of access, which was Portsmouth, and proceeded from here to Wolverhampton. This brought us, on the way, to Salisbury, Bath and Bristol.
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Ferry trip (10-11 April)

A one night, two-days trip, which was fairly relaxed since by then we knew the most difficult was done: we were technically in British soil already, at least with a British timezone.

Isle of Wight from the Ferry

A highlight was sailing past the Isle of Wight and toying with all our memories there, when it was our neighbor, for several years, to which we paid only a couple of visits. It was very familiar nevertheless and a cherished acquaintance.

Portsmouth in Sight

1st day (11 April) — Portsmouth

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Hilsea lines

Clarence Pier

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By far the most appreciated part of our stay in Portsmouth was the fair, for which we acquired a special "bracelet" option that allowed us to enjoy 10 attractions for a reasonable price, also playing the trick of using one bracelet's two tickets to admit two people, which, it was our understanding, was not allowed as bracelets are individual and their tickets should be taken off at the entry, but people were merely collecting them so in this way, Elena could squeeze her way in in those attractions that required an adult accompanier without paying the nifty sum. The favorite one could also, in this way, be repeated. Because attractions are so expensive, even with the discount, there are few people on most of them. For one of the few attractions that Luz could enjoy, we had ran out of tickets but Luz liked it so much, making such a plea to do it again, in Spanish, that the Spanish national in charge of it told us we could stay for the next run, but that we'd have to wait for more people to come in. When it became clear that no more people were coming in, we had a ride all by ourselves.

Aquarium

This was Luz's first visit to an aquarium.


Portsmouth's coastline

2nd day (12 April) — Salisbury

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Around and in the Cathedral

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Salisbury Museum

3rd day (13 April) — Around Warminster

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Smallbrook Meadows

Warminster

Warminster is an old market town. We visited it since it was so close to our previous settlement, in fact almost toying with the idea of a nightly visit from the park, which would have been enough as it takes more time to park than to run through its main (market) street.

Farleigh Hungerford Castle

Westwood Manor & Saint Mary's church

Iford Manor

Bradford on Avon

Dundas acquaduct

4th day (14 April) — Bath

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The Globe

5th day (15 April) — Bristol

Bristol Museum

6th day

Bristol

7th Day (16 April) — Wye Valley

Eagle's nest and Devil's pulpit

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8th Day (17 April) — Chepstow and Severn channel

Chepstow

Severn