Guns

Hartlepool Historic Quay, HMS Trincomalee 1817 (TS Foudroyant 1903 - 1986), second oldest warship afloat, only the USS Constitution is older.

HMS Java, carrying the plans for HMS Trincomalee, was attacked and defeated by USS Constitution and later sank under tow, along with the plans, Strange coincidence.

Hoverfly

Hoverfly on a Globe thistle in my garden

Big Green Man

On the banks of the river Loire, in Amboise, France 2011.

Little known fact, Amboise is the last resting place of Leonardo da Vinci.

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Warkworth Castle

Not the usual view you get for this beautiful castle.

Milton Ferry Bridge

Milton Ferry Bridge (1716) an old toll bridge over the river Nene in Ferry Meadows Country Park, Peterborough.

Coliseum, Rome 2005

I need to revisit Rome, soon.

Refreshments

A photo of all of us on holiday, Salou, Spain 2011

salou2011.blogspot.com/2011/04/spain-2011-day-five.html

After the pool

Relaxing with a beer after the pool.

francemoblie.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/day-six-2012_25.html

The Legendary Duff Beer

4.9% yellow as Homer with a head as thin as Homer's hair, weak malt aroma and taste, unlike the Simpson's this beer is poor and made in Germany.

Meorose

Chain Bridge 1826, a suspension footbridge over the River Tweed in Melrose, Scotland

ralph-dot-motorhoming.blogspot.com/2012/03/scotland-day-o...

My Dad's Mam

Jane Gant, Hartlepool, England, my grandmother.

Sadly she died not long after my christening in 1953

Peterborough Cathedral

Saint Peter's Cathedral

Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England's last resting place.

ralph-dot-motorhoming.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/trip-for-amb...

Bee

River Skerne

The river Skerne through South Park, Darlington

Durham Cathedral

You can not have enough photos of Durham

Helm Beck 2010

Memories of walking in the sun.

ralph-dot-motorhoming.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/past-trips-2...

HMS Trincomalee

HMS Trincomalee, 1817 (AKA, TS Foudroyant 1903 - 1986), second oldest warship afloat, only the USS Constitution is older.

Endeavour pleasure boat

A small scale Replica of Capt. James Cooks Original, leaving Whitby Harbour for a short trip out to sea.

ralph-dot-motorhoming.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/past-trips-u...

Filming Merlin

Château de Pierrefonds, Pierrefonds, Oise, Picardy, France. Used as the set for BBC TV's series Merlin. They were filming again when we were there in September 2010.


Our 2010 visit to the castle francemoblie.blogspot.com/2011/05/day-seven-10th-sep-dave...

Idea

I saw this and had an idea

Cock and Hen

Cock and Hen, Chateau de Martragny, Martragny, Calvados, Lower Normandy, France 2008

Chateau de Martragny

A Few Years On

Rowntree park, York. Not done this shot for a few years.

2007

2006

DSL 229, 1943 U.S. Navy Willys Jeep

Shore Patrol Jeep

Containers

Containers, Port of Zeebrugge, Belgium.

myweb.tiscali.co.uk/ralphdot/Belguim_2008.htm#Bruges

Time

The time is close

Something funny?

Mick and Me with Sam Smith's beers in The Hansom Cab, York.

England 2009, the second six months

Pont de Normandie

Another shot of, Pont de Normandie (Bridge of Normandy), or as our family know it, the scary bridge, at the mouth of the river Seine, Normandy, France 2008.

Its total length is 2143.21 m (856 m between the two piers).

France 2008

Golf Bridge

Golf Bridge, with the dismantled Rail Viaduct (Newholm Beck Viaduct?) on the old Whitby Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway in the background.

ralph-dot-motorhoming.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/past-trips-u...

Pêche au carrelet

Some of the many fishing machines (Pêche au carrelet) along this section of the French Atlantic coast, Saint-Brevin, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France 2009

ralph-dot-motorhomeinfrance.blogspot.com/2011/05/france-2...

Château de Pierrefonds 2008 (set for BBC's Merlin)

Château de Pierrefonds, Pierrefonds, Oise, Picardy, France, 2008. Used as the set for BBC TV's new series Merlin. They were filming when we were there in June.

Pierrefonds is on the southeast edge of the Forest of Compiègne, north of Paris, between Villers-Cotterêts and Compiègne.

See map for location.

Our visit to the castle ralph-dot-motorhomeinfrance.blogspot.com/2011/04/2008-day...

also www.flickr.com/photos/ralph-dot/2869645705/