Sunday 1 May 2011

So what have YOU done this Easter bank holiday?

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I went to Lincolnshire for a few days and thoroughly enjoyed myself.  Seen and done quite different things from visiting Katherine of Aragons grave (King Henry VIII's first wife) to watching a Lancaster bomber taxi-ing and watching wild Ospreys over Rutland Water!  Visited one of Englands 3 intact finest Elizabethan buildings, watched Typhoons taking off from RAF Conningsby and ate great food!

The gave of Katherine of Aragon in Peterborough Cathedral.  Flowers are left daily and a service held for her every January to remember her, the month of her burial.


East Kirkby airfield.  A Bomber airfield during WWII housing Lancasters. 
Here we are looking past a resting 'Just Jane' towards an American Dakota.


The opposite view looking back towards the Lanc. 
The Lancaster is facing the other way round though due to completing a taxi-run. 


'Cockpit art'


Tattershall Castle - built in 1434. 


On the roof, amazing 360 degree views are to be had and with RAF Conningsby right next door
you have great views of the working of a modern front line RAF base
 with Typhoon fighter bombers continually taking off and landing. 
A real juxtapositon of old and new.

Looking towards Woodhall Spa with both Woodhall Spa and Tattershall churches in the shot.  Note the moat around the castle.


Went to Burghley House - this a view from the South.


Looking at the house from underneath the tree planted by Prince Albert.  Victoria's tree is opposite.



The Ospreys at Rutland Water.  Fantastic watching them.  The Rutland Ospreys are the first to breed in Central England for 150 years - very rare birds indeed.

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