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The Bramblebrook Community Centre, location of the Derby Memory Competition 2008
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at a different perspective, nice church on the left... |
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...with an extraordinary nice front garden |
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conflicting dates again... competition started at 10:00 am |
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Met this nice lady one day prior to the event and since I like uniforms, she got a date with the camera |
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That almost looked like "Copperhead close"... |
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and right at the next corner if you do not read propperly: "Snake attack" made me smile. ;) |
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interesting to see and read this stuff in another language |
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on the way to the competition on day #1 |
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need to explain: found it so funny that Derby people have three bins,one blue, one brown and one black. Same here in our town in Upper Bavaria. |
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on my way to the competition, still day #1 |
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see Nick in the front and Phil Chambers (WMSC) next to Dagfinn in the back |
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Dai, I am so sorry I did not get this super picture of you in a sharp version. Hope you still like it, I do! |
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I have no recall information whatsoever about how and why I did this one... |
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on the search for food after the 1st competition day |
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yeah... we did it. I mean we were not on a conference about healthfood oslt. |
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This time I finally got that special feather on Ben's hat. It is the one with the yellow dots. |
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Seven happy campers after competition day #2. |
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Wolfgang arrived in Derby day #2 and we went on to Leominster/Herefordshire. (back to school at Leominster museum) |
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my lesson there (had no difficulties with memorizing) |
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around St. Peter and Paul's cathedral in Leominster |
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Ludlow - said to be England's most beautiful town! |
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Had fish and chips there. :)))))))) |
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A Ludlow shop selling an interesting combination of articles. |
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nice combination of my favourite colour and a (from my perspective) vintage car. |
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Ludlow: survivalist #1 (I am fond of these plants) |
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St. Laurence's church in Ludlow. Met an English man there who had worked in Düsseldorf, and who could perfectly correct pronounce the "ü". |
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Shrewsbury, Shropshire. We had to change trains there on our trip to Aberystwyth/Wales |
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Shrewsbury railstation from the outside |
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Shrewsbury railstation from the inside |
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ohhh.. waiting for lunch at a diner in Aberystwyth |
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This is a Jacket potatoe with scrambled eggs and bacon. My favorite food on the whole England trip!! Wolfgang got the onions though. |
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Wolfgang's Jacket potatoe |
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a closer look into the scrambled eggs. Boy, were they good. |
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This lady from Ireland served us food and (very tasty) cappuccino with genuine warmness. |
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Aberystwyth, on the way to the shore: survivalist #3 |
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you would just expect the Famous Five to emerge from this "cave"! |
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yes, by the number of photos you can tell I pretty much liked these flowers. I have even more on my computer... |
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Ginster in German. "Whin" or "furze" in English. Glad it does not literally DO that! (Guess only Germans understand that comment...) |
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got cloudy around 18:00 and we did almost make it to a dry place, but yes, got wet, and Wolfgang got a heavy cold. |
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last pictures before the rain set in |
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Back to the heart of Leominster |
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Last evening in Leominster |
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My friend Jean who took us all the way to BHX (since our train got cancelled due to a fire). Without her we would have missed our flight! |
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