Travel Much?

Some pictures from the continuation of what Darin calls "Katie's World Tour," which isn't so much a world tour as a tour of South and West England, are at the bottom of this post. These are from last week when Karen, Big C and I took a lovely round-about filled drive to Stratford-on-Avon. We didn't really go in anywhere, but the church where Shakespeare is supposedly buried. All the touristy things to do are extremely expensive and we are all on fixed budgets. That being said, we weren't really that enthusiastic about going into any of the other places anyway.

My friend Leanne is off to America on Monday for a two week archaeology dig in North Carolina. She is doing her dissertation film there and it is her first trip to the States. I am hoping that she really enjoys it. North Carolina is a beautiful place, though they will not get to see very much of it since they will be very busy the whole time.

I am going to Hampshire to do a reconnaissance trip for Karen and my film on Thursday, then I am off to my (and Karen's too LoL) TimeTeam placement, April 12th-15th, in Leicester. I have a 10 minute presentation of what I am doing for my dissertation on the 20th of April. Karen is taking the MAASM's to Wales, St. Fagen's, on April 23th for part of her research for one of our essays. Then with any luck I will be going to Frankfurt to visit the lovely miss Davina Filamor for a week, April 30th - May 4th! I will come home and have 3 weeks before school is officially over and dissertation madness starts. I most likely will be on a archaeology dig in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England (not California so don't get too excited) for a month (last two weeks of May, first two weeks of June) for the first part of my 'summer.' One of those weeks I might take off and go to Greece on holiday with Lisa, as an end of the year chill out, where we will spend a week on a beach, basking in the lovely warmth of the Mediterranean sun. Then June 19th my MOM COMES!!!

I will show her and Emery around Bristol then they are off on their own (maybe....we'll see about that) to enjoy England for a few days. They are being spirited away to Hungary on the 28th of June, where I will probably follow them a few days later and spend a week laying on a beach in Hungary and playing tennis! (I am going to get absolutely schooled on a tennis court, seeing as though I haven't so much as picked up my tennis racquet since Sept).

When all that is over, I come home to Bristol to do a placement, with any luck, in a production company and work on my dissertation film. It is going to be a great summer!!!

Pictures from Stratford-on-Avon are below:

Lady MacBeth and Hamlet

Karen Wood

...seriously

Big C

Water, Brush, colour

Another painted birthday present. This time for Big C (the paparazzi). Maybe not the best one I have ever done, but its ok. More to come, per usual

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Take Me Back To The Windy City....

Pictures from Glastonbury, as promised. They are all by Big C, my personal paparazzi! LoL He is soooo good!. Enjoy!
Base Jumping!
Super Heroes! (this one is by me!)
AHH WIND!

look MOM NO HANDS!!!!

Fiction Forest

The Epic shots from Big C. I told you he is my own personal paparazzi. Enjoy!

More Adventuring...

Went to Glastonbury today. Here is a link to my Facebook page that has all the images up. If you like certain ones and want them e-mail me and I will send them to you. Glastonbury was beautiful. And yes, I have been there before, but it is always nice to go back. This time, I went with Big C, Josh, his girl Vio, and her two Spanish friends.

Glastonbury

Forest of Fancy

Went on a trip with Josh and Big C today. Josh is a friend of mine who does Landscape Archaeology. We drove South and East to a place called New Forest, which is very close to Southampton. It is really not terribly far from where I will be going on Monday to do my 'recy' (reconnaissance) trip with Karen for our final film before dissertations. Map for locales if you are interested (Click Here).

There were supposed to be more people going today, but in the end it was just the three of us which worked out really well, actually. We saw some wild ponies, I almost touched one, she let me get really close! ran around in the rain, climbed trees, crossed a small river, and an amazing lunch at some local pub, and just generally had a great day! Here are some of my better shots, mind you it was pouring down rain at the time so the pictures aren't as great as they could have been, but some turned out rather well. Again, I am sure that there will be some better photos, even some with me in them, later on. So when they show up (Big C or Josh's photos) I will post them.

Josh Dunn

Big C

More, More, Exmoor!

Well, as promised there were some epic pictures that came from other folks in the MAASM crew that revisited Exmoor. And thanks, as usual to Big C and his stellar camera stills we even have a group shot. The pictures below are done by the person whose name appears below them. Enjoy!

By: Big C
Big C
By: Karen Wood
By: Karen Wood

By: Big C with the help of the Land Rover

Right to left: Me, Karen, Ros, Phil, Big C, Pods, Devika, Leanne, Elle