Day 16 - Wrap up

Today we travelled back from London, England to Ottawa. The journey took longer than it should because Air Canada does not yet have any trans-Atlantic flights from Ottawa. We were forced to go through Toronto thus putting about four hours on to the trip, even before the flight from Toronto was heavily delayed.  

It was a great trip. Its was a short trip but Paul and I managed to work out an excellent schedule which went according to plan.

Our first success was the arrival at Frankfurt. Our plane was due in at 0725 and our train to Koln was due to leave at 0809. The plane was a few minutes late but we made it through passport control and a busy airport with one minute to spare.

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We had a great visit to see the Wuppertal monorail

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We have visited Miniatur Wunderland many times and knew what to expect. I think it exceeded our expectations:

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We broke our journey to England from Germany at Amsterdam where we had an interesting afternoon:

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The Warley Model Railway Show highlighted the best of British railway modelling

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We have always liked York. It was good, even in a gloomy, cold November. I was happy to renew acquaintances with some old friends Clun Castle 7029, and (4)2500 which I fired in regular service:

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Newcastle was an interesting interlude. The Tyne and Wear Metro is a good example of how to set up a system using common sense - pity we did not use common sense in Ottawa:

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And finally London where I renewed acquaintances with some old school friends. The Malt Shovel at Eynsford brought back memories, particularly of listening to Beethoven's third piano concerto, with the magic piece at the end of the first movement, while eating a Ploughman's lunch, this was while excavating at the Roman Villa in 1959. It was great to see the Lullingstone Roman Villa and my visit ended with some time with Trevor, my cousin, and his wife Doris, and my second cousins Linda and Frances,

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After a little down time we now need to start thinking about our next adventure.


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