August 2016. Please click thumbnail to see the complete album.

Barmouth Canons Ashby Kedleston Hall

In addition to our visits to the above 3 locations during August 2016. Between 27 July and 3 August Daniel and Faustine came over from France and stopped at our house for the week.
Between 23 August and 7 September. Keiths dogs "Bobby", "Daisy" and "Lady" came to stop whilst Keith and Alison went to Cyprus on Holiday.
On 8 August Steve went with Paul to Star City to watch the latest Star Trek film "Beyond"
on 27 August there was a family BBQ at Sam and Petes House in Erdington to celebrate Sams Birthday.
Not only did Callum get his "A Levels" but he also passed his driving test at the first attempt!

During May 2016 Carol, John Gail and Steve spent a week on the Isle Of Wight. Please click the thumbnail to see the complete album

Bembridge Carisbrooke Castle Dolls Ferry Havenstreet Needles Newport Osbourne House Portsmouth Ryde Shanklin Southport Ventnor Yarmouth

During 2001 Gail, Carol, John, Pat, George and myself went on a cruise down the River Rhine in Germany. At that time I had the latest "State of the art" Analogue camcorder and took the following videos. In those days computing was still in its infancy with restricted hard drive storage space, YouTube videos were restricted to very short clips. Video editing software was almost non existant. At that time I simply transferred the entire contents of my camcorder tapes to one huge video file which for playback purposes was obviously not very efficient making it almost impossible to locate a particular piece of footage. Also I was unaware of the locations of many of the clips - It was only whilst working on this project some 15 years after these videos were taken, that I was able to identify the location of the Hotel in Belgium (Video #3 below).
I have not attempted to improve the quality of these old clips but have simply split the large file up into several small sequences and then inserted an opening title.

01 Dover Castle 02 Channel Crossing 03 Hotel In Belgium 04 Christina 05 Leaving Cologne 06 Konigswinter 07 Konigswinter Andernach 08 Andernach 09 Emporer Wilhelm Statue 10 Marksburg Castle 11 Spay - Filsen 12 Moselblick 13 Mosel Bridge 14 Marksburg 15 Boppard 16 Schonburg Castle   17 Kaub on Rhine   18 Trechtingshausen 19 Trechtingshausen Castle 20 Niederwald 21 Rudesheim Castle 22 Rudesheim 23 Wine Tasting 24 Music Museum 25 Dancing and Singing 26 Mainz 27 Heidelberg Castle 28 Heidelberg Cathedral 29 Loreley 30 Executive Coach 31 Coblenz 32 Loher-Center 33 Cologne

We celebrated the Christmas Period with Festive pub meals at
1. The Whitehouse
2. The Boathouse.
Christmas Dinner was at the Toby Carvery, Shenstone (Known locally as The Highwayman)

On Tuesday 22 December 2015 we attended an Aladdin Pantomime at the Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre. Neil had arranged the two front rows for members of the PPFC Community Centre, Gail and myself sat at the very front.
New Year was celebrated in our traditional manner of taking a mini holiday with other members of the PPFC Community Centre. This year it was to Scarborough with a Harry Shaw coach arranged by Neil. During this break we also made visits to Harrogate, Whitby, Bridlington and York.

I have made an alteration to the layout of my website. The Video albums have now been merged with the photo albums. This should make items easier to find plus the videos have now been cross-referenced much better than they were previously

Harrogate	Whitby	Scarborough	York