England 2013Michel wanted to visit London, and Laura and I suggested to also visit the New Forest for some days (Laura and I had already visited the New Forest in 2008). Click the photos for enlargement. These photos try to provide an overview of our holiday, and on this page you'll find even more photos of our holiday.
Laura on the boat in Dunkirk.
Michel enjoys the sun.
On the boat. When we arrive in Engeland I am a little bit emotional and Kate Bush is singing Oh England My Lionheart in my head.
Small break in Sussex.
Michel petting a horse in the New Forest.
Foal.
Foal.
Foal running.
Otter. At first we are excited to find an "Otter Nursery", hoping to find otters there. But it's just the name of the nursery. Later we find a park with otters.
In the tropical butterfly garden.
An otter who looks like it's not his day.
Otter playing with a rock.
Otters playing in the water.
Foal of a donkey.
Michel photographs a rainbow.
Laura befriending two horses.
Laura in Beaulieu.
Horses.
Only a few meters from our house in Barton-on-Sea there is this view of the Isle of Wight.
Michel in the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu. Here you'll find more photos from the museum.
We're having tea in an English garden in Beaulieu.
A bird in that same garden.
Donkeys in the street in Brockenhurst (photo by Michel).
Laura and Michel underneath the English flag in our tea room in Barton-on-Sea.
Laura and I (photo by Michel).
Dog.
Shore line near Barton-on-Sea. In the distance there's a person and a dog.
With Judge Smith at the shore in Barton-on-Sea.
Judge smelling the gorse.
Laura practicing her singing lessons.
Michel and Laura awaiting their horse ride, at Burley Villa Stables.
Hawk, Coyote and Chiquito after the ride (photo by our hostess Charlie).
Michel and Laura in Burley.
Michel outside a pub in Burley.
Our bicycle route in the forest.
Deer in the forest.
And a white one!
Cattle.
Cows, curious as always.
Trees and a brook during the bicycle ride.
Horses in a field.
Laura bicycling.
Donkey.
The shore line near Barton-on-Sea is crumbling down.
Shore line near Barton-on-Sea.
Shore line near Barton-on-Sea.
Cow.
Michel photographs a cow.
Cow.
Cow in the road and in the way.
Laura and a cow.
Cow.
Laura during a short walk.
Laura and Michel during a short walk.
Laura smells the gorse.
Laura.
Laura.
Gorse thorns are strong and sharp.
Laura near a tree.
Laura petting a llama, at Ashdown Forest Llama Park.
Michel petting a llama.
Llama in and covered with straw.
There's also some reindeer in the park.
Laura petting a reindeer.
Llamas in a field.
Llama.
London park.
Michel feeds a squirrel.
Squirrel.
Squirrel.
London eye.
Laura in London with her gremlins.
London eye.
Thames.
London as seen from the Thames.
Near the Cutty Sark.
Laura and Michel in Greenwich Market (my Guinness in the foreground).
Park in Greenwich.
Thames beach.
Subway station Putney Bridge.
Laura in a small park.
Self portrait.
Inside Tate Modern.
Aeroplanes fly low past our house.
Laura.
Queueing for Kew Gardens. We choose to go to a park instead. The weather is very nice.
Old hops hanging over a bar on our way back.
In the garden of the pub.
Laura.
Gull.
Gull.
Gull.
White cliffs of Dover.
On this page you'll find even more photos of our holiday.
