The Travels of Gypsy Rover

St Pauls Cathedral sitting in the sunshine. Our plan had been to spend my last day in London going down to Greenwich to see the EMIRATES AIR LINE (Cable car) across the Thames. The weather wa...

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NAKED KIWI BURGER AND L & P We had planned to visit Greenwich to visit the new Emirates Airline Cable Car over the Thames. The weather had other ideas so we decided to visit Gourmet Burger Ki...

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ACROSS THE FIELDS TO MAYFIELD I never realised how close to the country was Tracey's home. Carshalton in Surrey is very close to the Mayfield Lavender fields says Tracey. Well I know I used t...

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SUTTON BUGGY IN SUTTON HIGH STREET. Something that has amused me when in the main street of Sutton. I have seen this buggy several times when in town but by the time I have got my phone out ...

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CAR PARKING OUTSIDE TRACEY'S. FRONT TO FRONT. I have been flabbergasted at the parking here in the United Kingdom. This photo taken with Tracey's home in the background shows how the cars pa...

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THE HUGE MASK IS CALLED THE BULKHEAD. A night out in Canterbury was organised by Carrie to an outdoor show organised by Marlowe Theatre. The theatre was named after Christopher Marlowe a pla...

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LOOKING ALONG THE VERANDAH OF THE ALMSHOUSES. The Faversham Society was celebrating it's 48th year when it was holding this event opening some of the historical buildings in the area this we...

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FAVERSHAM ALMSHOUSES On Friday I caught the train into Victoria Station before changing onto South East trains to Dover. I wasn't heading this far but to the old market town of Faversham. Wit...

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HOMEMADE COWELL'S PAVLOVA. Yesterday I was coerced into baking a Pavlova for a street party in Tracey's complex. No problem as I have all my recipes available online through Dropbox. With al...

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KINGSTON BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER THAMES. Being so close to one of my favourite spots on the River Thames I just had to spend a day here. Maybe some of the friends we made while living on the n...

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SHORT OF GARDEN SPACE? GROW IT ON THE WALL Whilst wandering through the town of Sutton just a short bus ride from Tracey's home in Carshalton Beeches, I spotted this above the shop. Adds...

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EPSOM CLOCK TOWER. Yesterday I decided  to get brave and head off alone towards Epsom in Surrey. Not the namesake Epsom in Auckland. The reason was I wanted to visit Lakeland for a couple...

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BELIEVE IT OR NOT WE'RE IN LONDON. Sunday and Tracey and I decided to catch a couple of buses and visit the lovely village of Cheam. Our plan was to visit the local country fair. First we wa...

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FROM LEFT JULIE, DOT AND MICK I recently spent a wonderful few days with Julie, Mick and Pam in March, Cambridgeshire. It was hard to believe that nearly six years have passed since Derek and I...

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NOT WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE! BUT TRACEY'S DINING ROOM BLIND. I felt quite proud of myself on Thursday travelling from Tracey's home in Carshalton Beeches to March, a total of about 4 hours by bus an...

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Mary and Tony dropped me at the airport for my evening flight to Singapore. All checked in with a lovely surprise at my seat. LOVELY WELCOME FROM AIR NEW ZEALAND. Travelling on the new Drea...

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MURIWAI GANNET COLONY. Yesterday morning Robin and Jenny kindly took Derek and I to Palmerston North for my flight to Auckland and then on to London. I will be staying with my sister Mary for a...

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Picton Marina, looks like a calm crossing. Heading north after 3 months down south we travelled on the Interislander this time so Honey and Gypsy Rover were inside all locked up.  No problems...

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As we had a lovely fine day again today, and the laundry all up to date, John and Elizabeth suggested we have a picnic for lunch.  We headed south towards Seddon on the now closed SH 1, althoug...

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Leaving Wakefield yesterday morning we travelled on a back country road towards  Lake Rotoiti for lunch, before carrying on to Blenheim for a couple of nights. Lovely autumn colourings lining...

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It was time to meet up with our travelling companions from Blenheim again and attend a Nelson and Tasman NZMCA rally. John and Derek are both keen steam enthusiasts and as the rally was at a  st...

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With the weekend over and fine weather forecast for the next couple of days we opted to head back to Mot to let the boss have a play with his fishing rod again. Sea shuttle coming into at high...

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With rain in the forecast we spent the weekend at Richmond relaxing and catching up with the laundry. Richmond Sundial in the square in Richmond.  Very accurate according to the shadow showin...

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But we call it Motueka.  We had been told about a wonderful place to freedom camp close to the Motueka Estuary.  So we set out to find it, wow what a view.  Honey was lucky enough to have fres...

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We headed back over the Takaka Hill towards Motueka.  We decided to find a nice spot on the coast for lunch. Great view from the front window. The plaque reads “ In grateful memory of Ca...

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