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We're subtitling this new film "Bath & Beyond." Most visitors to England get to London and a few scattered destinations - York, Stonehenge, the Lake District and Bath, for instance. In this film, we start at Bath and proceed from there (Westward Ho!). Into the legendary lands of King Arthur and the fictional Wessex of Thomas Hardy. And we won't stop until we reached Land's End (a real place, just like Westward Ho!) The two photos on the right show the range of architectural treasures to be found in the West Country. In the upper photo, Monty and his camera take in the widescreen vista of the world renowned Royal Crescent in Bath, where our travels begin. In the lower frame, Marsha and her camera are pictured on the hillside beneath St. Catherine's Chapel at Abbotsbury. The Chapel was saved from destruction in the 16th Century because it provided a convenient Naval lookout over the English Channel. Testimonial from Deryck, of Coventry England, who purchased several copies of It's Great! Britain on the internet. September, 2007. Dear Monty Just to let you know that the parcel arrived this morning - with a comfortable week to spare ahead of our departure. And to say also that we are very pleased with the contents of your film. The DVDs are intended as gifts for close members of my family who, like you it seems, have their origins here but have lived most of their lives in the US. The idea is simply to awaken memories, or to forge new links. In making your film you could only make an impossibly small selection of places to visit, but as it happens your choice well met the bill. We all know London, our son was married in an area of Suffolk that you display, my wife and I have visited Lindisfarne, and spent a recent holiday walking the length of Hadrians Wall; as children I and my sisters had seaside holidays at Presytatyn, we took my Mother on a tour of Exmoor on her very last return trip to England before she died (she was utterly delighted by it), and we've done some splendid walking in Hardy country. So you see - spot on! You must return some day and do another, perhaps this time visiting the Highlands of Scotland, doing a bit more of Wales (the wonderful Snowdon Mountain range and the glorious Pembrokeshire coast), and of course our beloved Lake District. But again many thanks. |