Charming Cosy Cotswolds Cottages – Bibury
“We are off for ten days holidaying in the Cotswolds“
In panic I nearly put the receiver down to avoid becoming deaf. My sister couldn’t stop laughing. Seconds later I became aware that ‘Cots’ sounds exactly like the German word for ‘puke’ – not the best recommendation for a holiday region.
I told her about the idyllic market towns and villages, which in every England guide are idealized presented as the most beautiful in the whole of England. And as my sister is a dedicated lover of the arts I mentioned William Morris, the Arts-and-Crafts artist and some Pre-Raphaelites. They loved the Cotswolds like the modern tourists. Actually they were the avantgarde of Cotswold tourism.
“Wir fahren für zehn Tage in die Cotswolds”
Meine Schwester prustete los. Erschreckt nahm ich den Hörer von meinem Ohr, um der Taubheit zu entgehen. Der Klang des Landschaftsnamens verleitete mein Schwesterlein zu der freilich unvorteilhaften Assoziation für einen Ferienort, nämlich Kotzen.
Am Telefon erzählte ich von idyllischen Städtchen und Dörflein, die in jeder Beschreibung der englischen Kulturlandschaft als schönste in ganz England idealisierend dargestellt werden. Da meine Schwester eine Liebhaberin der Künste ist, berichtete ich von William Morris und die Arts-and-Craft-Künstler wie einige Präraffaeliten, die diese Landschaft wie die heutigen Touristen liebten. Sie waren die Avantgarde des Massentourismus in den Cotswolds.
Going to the Cotswold was like time traveling. A step back to the good old times when life seemed to be all right. “English as English can be” was Siri’s comment. “I thought this exists in films only” Selma was astonished. All this fascinated William Morris and his friends too. Morris called Bibury (place of the famous Arlington Row) the most beautiful village in England visiting it in the 19. century. These cottage rows and whole villages look like taken out of a film set. Our dear Bookfayries got over-excited recognizing places from “Harry Potter“, “Lord of the Rings“, “Stardust ” and “Bridget Jones Diary“. A lot of great films were staged here with the effect that the villages and houses became fictionalized.
It’s so enchanting with no signs of city life, no traffic lights or building sites, no satellite dishes disfigure the roofs. We feel like in another century, it’s like in “Midsummer Murders” where such villages are the stars.
In die Cotswolds zu fahren gleicht einer Zeitreise. Es ist ein Ausflug in die gute, alte Zeit, als die Welt noch in Ordnung schien. “Gediegen Englisch“, wie Siri sogleich erkannte. “Ich dachte, das gibt’s nur im Film“, staunte Selma. Das war es, was William Morris und seine Kollegen hier faszinierte. Morris nannte Bibury, wo die Arlington Row liegt, “das allerschönste Dorf Englands” bei seinem Besuch im 19. Jh. Viele Häuserreihen und Straßen in den Cotswolds wirken wie aus einem Film. Unsere Buchfeen erkannten sie wieder aus “Der Herr der Ringe“, “Harry Potter“, “Stardust” und “Bridget Jones Diary” (wie, sowas sehen Buchfeen auch?). Viele Filme sind hier gedreht worden, was diese Dörfer und Häuser fiktionalisiert.
Das Bezaubernde dieser Dörfer ist das Fehlen jeglichen Anscheins vom Großstadtleben. Keine Ampeln und Baukräne, keine Satelittenschüsseln auf den Dächern. Wir meinen wirklich wie in einem anderen Jahrhundert zu sein; es ist wie in “Midsummer Murders“, wo solche Dörfer die Hauptrolle spielen.
This row of tiny cottages was built as a monastic wool store in 1380. It was converted into cottages for weavers in the 17. c. Today the Arlington Row attracts masses of visitors. It’s supposedly the most photographed street in the Cotswolds. It is even featured in the UK passport! Henry Ford seem to have thought about buying this Row as it was the ideal English village for him. Fortunately, it belongs to the National Trust now.
Diese Reihe niedlicher Cottages wurde 1380 als Wolllager gebaut und im 17. Jh. in Hütten für Weber umgewandelt. Arlington Row gehört heute zu der meistfotografiertesten Straße der Cotswolds. Kein Cotswolds-Prospekt ohne Arlington-Row. Sie ist sogar im UK Pass abgebildet. Henry Ford soll sie derart ideal englisch gefunden haben, dass er die Reihe kaufen wollte. Zum Glück gehört sie heute dem National Trust.
Dina got excited when our SatNav’s elegant voice announced “Bibury, you will reach your destination in 2 miles “. Photographing an object that has been photographed uncountable times is a challenge. You ask yourself why should you add to this flood of Arlington-Row-pictures? Do I find a special point of presenting the gist of this Row? Umberto Eco recommends to buy a perfect picture postcard and forget about photographing. But, maybe, it helps to think about what makes this attraction. For us it was the peace, a mood that’s calming down, a quietness (even if we read about the sound levels in those good old times). Like Morris we all look for the Holy Grail, for an ideal world, which we have learned to project on such an idyll. And exactly this should radiate a picture of Arlington Row – we advised Dina.
Selma’s added: “Arlington Row is like Spitzweg’s pictures, the dream of the content petit bourgeoise.“
Aufgeregt war Dina, als die elegante SatNav Stimme Bibury in 2 Meilen ankündigte. Etwas zu fotografieren, das derart häufig abgelichtet worden ist, stellt eine Herausforderung dar. Man fragt sich, ob das denn nochmals abgelichtet und gar gezeigt werden muss. Umberto Eco schlägt gegen die heutige Foto-Manie vor, vom schönen Ort eine feine Postkarte zu kaufen, statt sich mit Fotografieren zu stressen. Vielleicht hilft es, darüber nachzudenken, was die Menschen nach hier zieht. Für uns war es diese Stimmung von Ruhe, die keineswegs davon gestört wurde, dass wir um den Lärmpegel damaliger Zeiten wissen. Wie Morris suchen wir den Gral, ein Ideal, eine heile Welt,
die wir gelernt haben, auf solch eine Idylle zu projizieren. Genau das sollte ein Foto der Arlington Row vermitteln, berieten wir Dina.
“Die Arlington Row“, so Selma “ist wie das Auenland, der idyllische Ort, wo Bilbo Beutlin gemütlich vor der Haustüre sein Pfeifchen raucht. Das Paradies des zufriedenen Kleinbürgers.”
Lucky for us, we arrived here when the stream of tourists had calmed down. November is great for avoiding the busloads with hectic “you now have one hour for looking and photography” tourists. They are mood-destroyers number one. Dina is busy getting her gear ready for catching special moods in the fast changing light. Seeing a picture, it’s the mood that touches us first, isn’t it?
We admired Dina’s yogic positions. She really tried hard not to catch a parked car in her pictures. She could well understand this frustrated photographer who vandalized a horrible picture-spoiling constantly parked car in front of this Row.
Zum Glück waren wir Ende November hier, als jene Touristenströme abgeflaut waren, die der Stimmung höchst abträglich sind. Dina macht sich emsig ans Einfangen von Stimmungen bei schnell wechselndem Licht, denn ist es nicht die Stimmung, die uns bei der Betrachtung eines Bildes zuerst anspricht?
Wir bewunderten Dinas yogische Verrenkungen. Alles setzte sie daran, ein unpassendes Auto am Ende der Straße nicht im Bild zu bekommen. Sie verstand den frustrierten Fotografen, der vor einigen Monaten ein vor den Cottages geparktes Auto demolierte, da es seine Fotos verdarb.
This autumn light produced exactly the mood we had expected. “These are autumn cottages” noticed Siri. We had a stroll through Bibury while Dina was taking pictures. Well, … so we went back to our beloved Paradise.
Dieses Novemberlicht entsprach der Stimmung, auf die unsere Vorstellung uns vorbereitet hatte. “Dieses Häuser passen zum Herbst“, meinte Siri wohl auf deren Alter anspielend. Während Dina fotografierte, gingen wir durch das Dörfchen, dass uns nicht begeisterte. So kehrten wir wieder ins gelobte Auenland zurück.
Warm greetings
Mit herzlichen Grüßen
Klausbernd
who wrote with Siri’s help the text, Selma was Dina’s photo-assistant
Next time we will write from UK’s “prettiest village” – which one? Have a guess!
der mit Siris Hilfe schrieb, während Selma Dina beim Fotografieren assistierte
Das nächste Mal melden wir aus UKs “prettiest village” – welches? Ratet mal!
© Text and illustrations, Hanne Siebers and Klausbernd Vollmar, Cley next the Sea, 2017
Love your interpretation.
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Thank you very much, dear Sherry 🙂 🙂
Wishing you a happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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The autumn light makes the cottages all the more captivating.
A thoroughly enjoyable journey I would guess.
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Dear Sandy,
it was a very enjoyable journey, indeed. The autumn light and that most of the tourists were gone helped a lot.
Thanks a lot
The Fab Four of Cley
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You are welcome.
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🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Very English! Quiet, gray, damp, but in its way charming! And forsythia blooming in November to add a little color contrast,
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Dear Peter
we wouldn’t like to live in those cottages. We suppose, as you wrote, they are damp and draughty. The National Trust rents them out to tenants and they are very much asked for. Yes, this is English as English can be. People love it.
Thanks and have a wonderful weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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When I lived in England I loved visits to the Cotswolds. Pictures are lovely especially the 4th one where there is a light visible in the window. That magic hour before dark when lights show you into the lives of people inside going on about their lives.
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Dear Anne
you wouldn’t believe it, in all the more than 30 years we live in England we never visited the Cotswolds before. We once hurried through on our way to Wales but didn’t see anything of this idyllic places like from an old idealizing picture.
We loved our trip through the Cotswold very much and I suppose we’ll visit them more often, as they are not that far from where we live.
We wish you a great weekend and thank you
The Fab Four of Cley
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A very pleasant weekend to you too!
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🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Sieht das verträumt und verwunschen aus, wie schön!! Und wie toll beschrieben. Ich habe schnell auf der Karte geschaut, Bibury und the Cotswolds sind nicht unweit von Oxford. Aber ohne eigenes Auto zu bereisen schlecht, oder? Sind die Landstraßen sehr eng? Meine Faru und ich möchten unbedingt nächstes Jahr eine kleine Rundreise in England machen. Jetzt warten wir gespannt den nächsten Bericht ab. Tolle Fotos!
Gruß aus Frankfurt, Jürgen
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Lieber Jürgen,
in die Cotswolds zu fahren und dort herumzufahren ist kein Problem. Die Straßen sind gut ausgebaut, zumindest jene, die uns unser SatNav (Garmin) leitete. Ohne Auto diese Gegend zu bereisen, würde ich nicht empfehlen, da die idyllischen Orte nicht gerade an den Hauptstraßen liegen, die von den Bussen befahren werden. Wir waren froh, dass wir gemütlich mit unserem Volvo von Ort zu Ort fahren konnte, hier und dort stehen zu bleiben und zu staunen. Die Straßen bieten auch oft einen atemberaubenden Überblick über die “rolling hills of England”.
Wir begannen unsere Reise in Oxford und beendeten sie in Bath. So fuhren wir vom Norden in den Süden einmal durch die gesamten Cotswolds.
Danke für dein Lob, das uns sehr freute.
Mit lieben Grüßen vom sonnigen Meer
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Hallo Juergen,
aus vielfaeltiger eigener Erfahrung in laendlichen Gebieten in England (und Schottland) kann ich Klausbernd im Grunde nur zustimmen. Normalerweise sidn die Strassen nicht zu eng. Jedenfalls, solange die Nummern mit “A” beginnen. Wenn sie aber mit “B” anfangen und vierstellig sind, dann empfiehlt es sich, im Auto eng zusammenzuruecken! 😀 Und auf so schmalen Strassen ist dann auch deswegen Vorsicht geboten, weil die Einheimischen (oft) nicht damit rechnen, dass irgend jemand Anderes entgegen kommen koennte, und entsprechend “auf die Tube druecken”. Aber im Grunde habe ich dort nie ein Problem gehabt, und zwar weder mit meinem eigenen Auto [linksgesteuert] noch mit einem Leihwagen [rechtsgesteuert]. Man gewoehnt sich schnell dran. Eigener Wagen hat den Nachteil, dass man nicht gut nach vorne sehen kann, wen man ueberholen will. Hat aber den Vorteil, dass man den Abstand nach links zum Bordstein besser einschaetzen kann. Mit einem rechtsgesteuerten Wagen habe ich des Oefteren den Bordstein touchiert.
Aber wie auch immer: als alter Englandliebhaber kann ich Dir nur zu Deinem Vorhaben raten!
Liebe Gruesse aus dem fernen suedlichen Texas,
Pit
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It looks like Brigadoon 😊
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Great comparison, Fraggle! 👍🏻 🙂
We’ll watch Brigadoon at Christmas! 🤶🎄🎅 🎥💃🏼🚶👭
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As Dina already wrote, we will look it over Christmas. For 3 years it was “Downton Abbey” we loved watching eating mince cakes and having our evening drinks.
Thanks and Cheers
The Fab Four of Cley
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@Dina
What a good idea, dear Dina 🙂 🙂
we are looking forward to see it.
With 1001 Kisses xxxx
Klausbernd, Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma
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Enchanting and no wonder they use this village and the area for film locations.
Lovely photos, Dina 🙂
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Dear Vicki
Indeed, such places are very much ask for for filming, no advertisement, chain shops and other obstacles for a historic film. Ideal.
Thanks for liking Dina’s photography.
Happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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It has its own brand of beauty.
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Dear Anneli,
indeed! It’s the picture world of the Romantics looking back lovingly to the Middle Ages on which they (wrongly) project the idyllic life.
Thanks for commenting and have a relaxing weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Wrongly, for sure!!
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These lovely photos make me feel so at peace with the world. Thank you.
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Dear Gallivanta
it had exactly this effect on us when visiting Arlington Row.
Thanks and wishing you a happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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What a wonderful sentiment!
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These pictures are gorgeous! No cars, no people–Dina did an amazing job of avoiding them both. I would love to visit there some day. What a lovely place.
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Dear Carrie
thanks for your commentary 🙂 🙂
Tourists from all over the world visiting Arlington Row, nowadays quite a lot of tourists are from Asia. These villages are easy to reach as they are not that far from London. We keep our fingers crossed that you will see Arlington Row soon.
Happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Wonderful presentation and such lovely photography!
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Dear Chris
thank you so much for liking our post 🙂 🙂
We wish you a great weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Love this post because we absolutely loved the Cotswolds! Thanks for sharing these lovely photos. And you are so right — it is like going back in time. I wonder what these cute cottages really look like inside — if they’ve been renovated or they’re the same as they were centuries ago.
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These cottages are renovated and now rented out to tenants by the National Trust (the owner of Arlington Row). They are very much asked for but look tiny to me and draughty.
Thanks and have an easy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Absolutely gorgeous! This is so beautiful, so English and so well written. You four had a great time and I had to laugh. 🙂
When I consider photos that I really like, all photos have a message or speak to me, goes to my heart, I think I’d call them moody. What is the moodiness? Hmm. Probably what I just wrote, the image evoke something in my senses. You all did very well in this respect. Not only did the photos evoke an emotion in me, your writing also. Do you know the feeling when you have read a good book, you live through all the chapters and it’s wonderful … and it’s dreadful when you have turned the last page. Then I find it especially hard to start reading a new book. But I wouldn’t call the book moody.
Good night to you all from a VERY stormy Trondheim,
Hjerter
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Dear Hjertet
wow, thanks for your kind words 🙂 🙂
We would call a picture moody if it transfers a certain mood to the onlooker. It suspends the distance between sender and receiver.
We know this of coming to an end of a really good book too. If we drown into the this text we pick up a certain mood and so we call this moody as well. In other words gripping is a kind of moodiness.
We lots of love from sunny Norfolk to stormy Trondheim
The Fab Four of Cley
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What happened to my comment? It went off and disappeared!
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Hei Hjerter,
or should I say, Hjertet mitt?
I had to release you from pending comments. Do you know why? 😉
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It’s there, isn’t it?!
Don’t worry
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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I was going to say, I have no clue, but as I typed my name, it dawned upon me … 🙂 🙂
Hugs, klem
HjerteR
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Those look delightful. How did you ever discover this vacation spot?
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Dear Jacqui
our dear Dina always reads a lot and looks at many pictures of the area we are visiting. Together with Selma she keeps a little fairy book in which every point of interest for us is written down with coordinates for our SatNav. Dina und Selma love preparing our trips with maps and guides.
Thanks and wishing you an easy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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My dear friends,
what a charming place, wonderful images and interesting information! It looks as English can be. If Henry Ford had bought it, he’d probably move the whole row to the States. No joke, he bought several pieces of architecture in England and removed them. Good old National Trust. Is this row a museum today or do people live here? Even maybe rent it from the Trust? On the other hand, it can’t be very attractive to live here with so many buses arriving every day.
Have a lovely weekend, kram
Annalena x
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Dear Annalena
these cottages are rented out on a long term lease from the National Trust – so they belong to us 😉 But we wouldn’t like to live here. You have all the time tourists on your doorstep and these cottages are tiny. We were amazed that not in one or two of the cottages a museum was established, but there is none we noticed.
Wishing you GREAT weekend as well
The Fab Four of Cley xxx
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Those are the cutest cottages I’ve ever seen, and the photos are gorgeous!
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Dear Steve
THANK YOU 🙂 🙂
Indeed, they are cute, they feel too cute to be real but real they are.
Happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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So quintessentially English. You did a great job of photographing what’s been photographed so many times before. The light is lovely. Funny that you should mention “Midsomer Murders”, as I’m just reading a book by the creator of MM, Anthony Horowitz (also the creator of the best thing on television ever, “Foyle’s War.) The background of MM is beautiful, but if people really were murdered at that rate, everyone would either be dead or would have moved. 🙂
janet
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We know exactly what you mean: We love to see a series every Tuesday of cops in an nice southern German town. Oh dear, we thought if there is a murder every week we better stay away.
Thanks for your kind words.
Wishing you a wonderful weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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I love the mosses on the roofs. Though it makes me think the places are a bit less than cozy. Damp and a bit chill, probably, though they’re lovely from outside. I still like your seal, whom I can see below my comment box, lolling and smiling and looking relaxed under most liked.
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We wouldn’t like to live in those cottages but love to see them from the outside. We sometimes have the feeling the English are tougher like we coming from central heated rooms on the continent. They don’t seem to mind too much and running around in shorts and T-shirt when we have to wear our winter coats.
Thanks a lot and greetings from the seals – they are just getting their cute puppies
The Fab Four of Cley
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So beautiful! I love the light in Dina’s gorgeous photos.
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Dear Clare
thank you very much 🙂 🙂
For the right light Dina had to wait, well, to take moody pictures needs patience.
Thanks and all the best
The Fab Four of Cley
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Simply beautiful, and the light…wow!
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Thanks, dear Ed 🙂 🙂
Great that you like Dina’s photography.
Happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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I would love to visit these cottages one day. Definitely lucky to avoid the crowds, you’ve captured them beautifully. It looks so peaceful. 🙂
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We would recommend to go in wintertime well away from Christmas. The light is great then and most of the tourists gone. But don’t expect you as the only tourist there even at a grim November’s evening, there are always little groups of Chinese and Japanese around.
Nov. and February are great.
Happy weekend and thanks
The Fab Four of Cley
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Thank you for the tips, have a great weekend too Fab Four 😊
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What an achievement, to find a fresh way of photographing these so-very-often photographed homes. Delightfully evocative images.
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Dear Margaret
Thank you very much for liking Dina’s photography.
Wishing you a relaxing weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Reblogged this on Le Bien-Etre au bout des Doigts.
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Thank you very much for reblogging 🙂 🙂
Wishing you a great weekend
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What a pictures of the beautiful Cotswolds! Atmospheric in November…
I visited them a long time ago, but in summer, on a sunny day.
In Dutch, puke is also kots …
Kind regards 🙋🏻♀️
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Hi, dear Matroos
we can imagine that Arlington Row looks different in summer time with all the flowers blossoming around the Row.
We use quite often the same words in German and Dutch as it’s the same language family. If we concentrate we can read Dutch – but having problems with understanding.
With warm greeting and best wishes for the weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Liebe Hanne, dir ist es sehr gut gelungen, die fast mittelalterliche Stimmung einzufangen. Ich kann nicht genau erkennen, ist der Weg Asphalt oder ist es Sand? Ich wünsche mir Sand.
Ich kannte die “Die Arlington Row“ noch nicht und habe mich so an den Fotos und an dem Text erfreut,
herzlichen Dank euch vieren,
liebe Grüße von Susanne
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Oh, liebe Susanne, wir müssen dich enttäuschen, der Weg ist asphaltiert, was allerdings zum Glück von dem vielen Laub verdeckt wird.
Herzlichen Dank, dass dir Dina’s Fotos gefallen.
Wir wünschen dir ein entspanntes Wochenende
Liebe Grüße
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Wie Schade, Klausbernd und ich dachte tatsächlich, hier wäre der Fortschritt vorübergegangen.
Auch für euch ein streßfreies Wochenende von Susanne
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Liebe Susanne,
das ist so wie hier in Cley. Die Leute, die dort wohnen, wollen ein normales Leben führen und dazu gehört die asphaltierte Straße. Bei uns im Area Of Outstanding Natural Beauty und Denkmalsschutzgebiet ringen wir auch immer um einen Ausgleich von Bestand des Alten und die Ermöglichung für die Bewohner, ein zeitgemäßes Leben zu führen.
Mit lieben Grüßen
The Fab Four of Cley
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Lieber Klausbernd,
das verstehe ich völlig! Ich habe ja mal in einem denkmalgeschütztem Haus gelebt und es ist schon schwierig, weil die Häuser die geschützt sind, sind ja folglich alt und es fehlen viele Annehmlichkeiten, die dann nicht eingebaut werden können, weil das Haus geschützt ist. Wie du schon schriebst, es ist ein schmaler Grat!
Liebe Grüße von Susanne
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Ja, liebe Susanne, ich lebte zu Beginn in Cley in einem Cottage aus dem 16. Jh. Da musste ich im Winter im Pelzmantel und fingerfreien Handschuhen schreiben. Ich war erschrocken, wie verpimpelt ich bin, der ich doch für arktische Abenteuer schwärme.
Mit gaaaanz lieben Grüßen von uns
The Fab Four of Cley
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Wow, that looks incredible! I imagine that you had an absolute blast there =).
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Dear Conan
it’s just great, jumping back in time …
Thanks and cheers
The Fab Four of Cley
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Ihr Lieben, das sind wahrlich hübsche Häuser und Gassen und ausserdem sind Hanne mal wieder wunderbare Bilder gelungen … Chapeau!
Als Wolllager werden sie wohl noch schön ruhig gewesen sein, aber ich denke an die Weber und dass sie es nicht so gut und idyllisch hatten, wie die Häuser heute auf uns wirken muss ich ja eigentlich nicht erwähnen, kann es aber nicht lassen.
Über das Fotografieren von Kulturdenkmälern habe ich mir schon oft Gedanken gemacht, wobei ich es auch mache und doch auch die Idee von Umberto Eco für überdenkenswert halte, wenn es dann soweit kommt, dass Einer ein Auto demoliert 😉
Und gut, dass Herr Ford das Ganze nicht kaufen konnte, sonst wäre es wohl zu Disneyland mutiert!
Ich danke euch für Bilder und Worte und wünsche euch eine entspannte Adventszeit,
herzlichst, Ulli
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Guten Abend, liebe Ulli,
ja, Weber, die in solchen Cottages wohnten, waren unter den Luddites, den Maschinenstürmern wie in Hauptmanns “Die Weber”.
Oh, da sind wir uns sicher, dass Herr Ford aus Arlington Row ‘Disneyland Glow’ gemacht hätte. Unbelievable …
Habe Dank für deinen Kommentar. Auch dir wünschen wir eine gemütliche Adventszeit und dass du es immer schön warm hast. Wir haben gerade Sturm mit Graupelschauer vom Meer
Liebe Grüße
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Hallo Ulli, hallo Klausbernd,
ich glaube weniger, dass Henry Ford ein Disneyland aus diesen Cottages gemacht haette. Die Vorliebe fuer den Kitsch in Disneyland kam hier in den USA spaeter. Bei Ford haette es wohl eher geheissen, “You can buy a cottage in any colour, provided it is black!” 😀 Und die Cottages waeren am Fliessband hergestellt worden und haetten dann wie die Plattenbauten in der ehemaligen DDR ausgesehen.
Liebe Gruesse
,
Pit
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great pics , not a soul on it , not even a noisy tourist 🙂
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Thanks 🙂 🙂
It’s great, isn’t it?! Well, it’s time magic …
Have a happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Wunderschön! Es gibt Fotos von Länder, die mich magisch in ihren Bann ziehen. Die etwas haben, was mich fesselt und nicht mehr loslässt. Genau so ist es mir mit diesen Fotos und England ergangen. Woran liegt das? Die Stimmung, das gute Gefühl das vermittelt wird? Durch diese Zeitreise wird das Tempo gedrosselt und die Idylle ist Balsam für meine Seele. Verständlich das viele Touristen dieses gute Gefühl mit der Kamera einfangen möchte und erstaunlich wie ihr geschafft habt, die selbigen zu entkommen. 🙂
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Liebe Anja,
ja, ja, unsere beiden Buchfeen Siri 🙂 und 🙂 Selma waren da aktiv, aber wir beschreiben besser nicht wie. Und zudem ist es Zeitmagie, deren Anfangs- und Königsweg die Geduld ist – hmmmm, und jene yogischen Verrenkungen.
Danke und feines Wochenende
The Fab Four of Cley
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A lovely tour. One can feel the textures of Arlington Row. Was the vandalised car a bright yellow one?
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Yes, Derrick, you are right! According to BBC, the car was a bright yellow one. It belonged to a man in the cottage on the right side in our first photo. I couldn’t possibly include that cottage. 😉 Today an old, ugly blue car parks in front of it. 🙂 The whole day long. Before we arrived in Bibury, I thought, well so what, if it is impossible to avoid the car…
Actually, today, I think it makes a good story, BBC too:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-39456449
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-38867290
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Many thanks, Dina. An art master in the 1950s encouraged us to include telephone wires in our pictures because they were part of the scene
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You are right, dear Derrick
Including the car would immediately change the style of the picture, interesting. Next time we are there we ask Dina to do a series of pictures “Arlington Row with car”.
Thanks and happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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@ Klausbernd
a very good idea! 😉 I’d love to go back soon.
Dina x
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Ein toller Bericht und die Bilder erwecken Sehnsucht in mir. Wenn ich schon nicht hin komme, so sauge ich doch die Berichte von Euch auf!
G. l. G. Jochen
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Ja toll, lieber Berliner, dass du unseren Beitrag zum Fressen schön findest. Das ehrt uns sehr.
Wir werden versuchen, weiter dich zu nähren.
Mit lieben Grüßen vom stürmischen Meer
The Fab Four of Cley
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Liebe Fab Four,
dieser wunderbar bebilderter und amüsanter Reisebericht bringt mich sofort zurück in the Cotswolds, welch eine Perle im Herzen England. In Bibury war ich nicht, (glaube ich) ein Grund wiederzukommen. 🙂 Seit meiner ersten England-Reisen habe ich großen Respekt für den National Trust, der sich um die Erhaltung historischer Gebäude und Gärten kümmert. Erstaunlich wie viele Freiwillige für die Organisation tätig sind und wie sie mit Hingabe sich um die kulturellen Schätze Großbritanniens bemühen. Good grief, wenn Henry Ford diese einzigartige Reihe gekauft hätte!
Liebe Grüße aus Weimar, nächste Woche sind wir in Tromsø 🙂
Per Magnus
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Lieber Per Magnus,
na, dein Deutsch hat sich sehr gemausert. Wir sind impressed, utterly and thoroughly.
Wir sind Mitglieder des National Trust und finden den NT eine Organisation, die viel Gutes tut bei der Bewahrung von Landschaften und Kulturgut. Bei unseren Reisen schauen wir immer, wo es National Trust properties gibt oder auch B&B in deren Schlössern, Leuchttürmen oder Mühlen. Das Heer von Freiwilligen ist riesig, deswegen sind NT Besitzungen immer so gut gepflegt.
Mit gaaaanz lieben Grüßen
The Fab Four of Cley xxx
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Those photos are stunning. Since you mention William Morris and the pre-Raphaelites, I wondered if you might be interested in this novel based around their story – Beauty in Thorns by Australian author Kate Forsyth . . . http://www.kateforsyth.com.au/beauty-in-thorns
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Dear Gwendoline
thank you so much for telling us about “Beauty in Thorns”. We read about this book and we will keep our eyes open to find it.
And tank you as well for liking Dina’s photography 🙂 🙂
Happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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There are indeed many beautifully Cotswolds villages. Lovely to see these x
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We suppose you will do.
Wishing you a great weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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My aunt and uncle used to live in the Cotswolds. So it was good to see these .
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Did you ever visit them there?
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Indeed I did. They were based on the then RAF base at Little Rissington and we would go down in the summer. Where they stayed was not too far from Bourton on the Water. So we were there a lot but we would also drive round and see the other ones in that vicinity because they were so beautiful. Many years later I was down that way again and it was great to see the old haunts including the Broadway Tower
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I am sorry but this is not England, this is an idealised view of England. England is a country of “haves” and “have-nots”, the Cotwolds is where the “haves” own second homes and they may employ the “have-nots” as cleaners or gardeners etc.
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Dear Philip
this is actually what we were writing, it’s a projection of a romantic dream. Tourists from abroad see this NT England idealized, of course. But isn’t it interesting what people want to see and how they want it to see?
Thanks a lot and happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Wonderful, wonderful photos and amusing text – thank you. I really need to add some Cotswolds features to the site – overdue a revisit anyway. The only downside is – you’re right about the crowds potentially destroying your mood. Of course, we’re never part of a crowd … 🙂
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Of course! 🙂
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NO, we are not crowd, of course not!
All the best and thanks
The Fab Four of Cley
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England is full of pretty towns and villages. I’d hare to ahve to pick the prettiest.
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You are right. But from all places in England we never saw such a lot of pretty towns and villages in such a small area like in the Cotswolds.
Thanks and cheers
The Fab Four of Cley
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Supertoppenbra .. wie gierte ich auf diese eure Impressionen. Verzaubernd! “Tackar ..”, haucht das Schwedenwaldmädchen. Onderbart och merveilleux och enchanting 🙂
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Ja, hab ganz herzlichen Dank! 🙂 🙂
We will go on about the Cotswolds, nehmen wir an. Am Dienstag kommt Dina nach Hause, dann beraten wir das.
Mit soooo lieben Grüßen und gemütliches 2. Adventswochenende
The Fab Four of Cley
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Whoops, typos – I meant I’d hate to have to pick the prettiest!
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… we didn’t even noticed and read ‘hate’ automatically
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England is full of lovely old cottages, but the Cotswolds does have the advantage of that honey-coloured stone and these are very cute. Love the first photo with the late afternoon light. That is so peaceful. We used to drive through the Cotswolds region regularly from Surrey to Shropshire, before we moved, and had a few day trips once we had (moved), but I decided for one birthday to book a B&B for a long weekend so we could explore the region. Staying close to Moreton-in-Marsh we took delight in the old market towns (founded on the profits of wool) eating out in ancient pubs with slate floors and wonky walls, visiting delightful flower-filled gardens and admiring the undulating Wolds. My only regret is that we didn’t return for another visit as it was only a couple of hours from Ludlow.
I wrote a short piece on our visit if you are interested: https://smallbluegreenwords.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/just-back-from-the-cotswolds/
Oh, and although those cottages look cute, I suspect that other than using as a holiday home they are quite challenging to live in. And the most picturesque village? That’s hard – Bourton-on -the-Water might be a contender, Chipping Camden? or what about Lower Slaughter?
Keep warm fab four and have a lovely weekend xx
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Dear Jude
I vote for Chipping Camden – it’s so enchanting, I fell in love with this market town immediately.
We stayed for a week in Broadway, also beautiful with a very comfy hotel. And we all did what you describe. We started in Oxford and ended in Bath. None of us has ever been there before, although it’s not that far from Norfolk.
There is quite a wind and it’s nearly freezing. We keep the open fire and the central heating going – we are wimps that even have an electric blanket.
Wishing you a great weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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I agree, Broadway is very pretty. We walked the entire length of the main street before heading up to the tower. It’s very windy here too, but no snow. I have the wood burner lit already 🙂
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Dear Jude
we have no snow neither it’s a bit above freezing and very windy. It’s nice and very cosy in the house.
For such a small village Broadway has a lot of very special shops, hasn’t it? We loved staying there.
Love from
The Fab Four of Cley
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I can imagine staying in Broadway was very good. We loved it. We stayed in a village with no shops or pubs, so had to journey out each evening to find somewhere to eat. Not so bad in June as it is light until late.
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When we went to the Lake District, we had a lovely cottage in a tiny village with no shops or pubs. I learned my lesson then. If there’s no pub or restaurant within a walking distance, I tend to go for another place.
I find it very hard to adjust to unknown winding country roads in the dark, even as a passenger with an excellent driver. Going home from Bath we encountered closed roads in Norfolk and the satnav brought us through hamlets we’d never heard of, only curves and fast cars and of course it was pitch dark, that’s ten times worse than the M25. I learned my lesson there too; try to make it to Norfolk before it gets dark. 😉
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Oh, Dina, you sound so much like me!! 🙂
Narrow roads in the dark are a complete nightmare, throw in some rain and I’m a nervous wreck, crawling around corners.
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Dear Jude
I absolutely agree, I hate it as well driving bending narrow country roads in dark and with rain. And I am used to drive these country roads for more than 30 years now. In the whole of Norfolk there is no motorway or bigger road.
Lots of love
Klausbernd 🙂
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Oh, but those car parkers do make me cross! I want to manually heave them out of the way, into a ditch! Oops- not nice! 🙂 🙂
Wishing you all the very best of this festive season.
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Dear Jo
there seems to be a club of the furious fabulous car destroyers – for higher reason, of course, for the art of photogaphy. I would join too.
Thank you very much and have a cosy festive season too
The Fab Four of Cley
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But, [splutter, splutter…] these people with the cars LIVE here. Try carrying your groceries indoors from half a mile away just so people can photograph YOUR house!
Highly Indignant of Norwich
😉 😉
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I would happily oblige. Price of living in such a place. 🙂 🙂
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There speaks a woman who probably has a driveway.
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Absolutely! AND a garage 🙂 🙂
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Hah!
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Dear Jude
I made the same point some comments later. You are absolutely right. We are faced with the same problem here in Cley too. It’s finding the balance between keeping up the old but also providing a normal lifestyle for the people living there now.
Happy weekend
Klausbernd 🙂
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My Fab Four of Cley,
Thank you for sharing this time with time and giving us a chance to see this area saved and preserved from a wonderful past. Talk about being built to last! Cars should be banned from the area for just that reason too. I appreciate the work and time you spent to give a view of section of time almost lost in history.
As always, have an outstanding weekend and thank you for you visits to my site!
GP Cox
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Dear GP Cox
built for eternity – that’s it. This decent workmanship fascinated these Arts and Crafts artists very much, it was what they would like to practice as well.
We were quite amazed that cars weren’t banned there. One can even drive past these cottages.
Thanks for your kind wishes 🙂 🙂 We wish you a cosy festive season, relaxed and happy
The Fab Four of Cley
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And the same to yours!!
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🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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I sent a link to another blogger, but forget to give you his…
https://quercuscommunity.com/
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Thanks our dear friend, we very much appreciate that.
Love from the wild sea
The Fab Four of Cley
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These photos are outstanding, Klaus. Dina did a wonderful job of capturing the autumn light and the textures of the buildings. I feel like I experienced the ‘quiet atmosphere’ that you described so well.
Have a great weekend,
Ω
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Thank you very much, dear Allan
Well, we are sometimes nostalgic …
Wishing you a wonderful weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Beautiful place. I was fortunate to live and work in the region for 4+ years, ’88-’92, 2 1/2 years in Bath. Loved it all, from white horse hills and long barrows to Georgian crescents.
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Dear John
we were immediately taken by the charme of the landscape and the little towns and villages. We ended our trip in Bath. There were still a lot of tourists around.
Wishing you a great weekend and thank you
The Fab Four of Cley
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Lovely pictures!
Make me want to visit that place, too!
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That’s not impossible. We keep our fingers crossed that you see the Cotswolds soon.
Thanks, all the best
The Fab Four of Cley
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Thank you, my beloved four, for the journey into the charm of Cotswolds! How lucky you were not finding too many tourists spoiling the sights of this magical place. I already admired the superb photography on Instagram. Three cheers from distant Canada!
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Thank you VERY much, dear Peter!
It was the right timing. Dina showed a Cotswold picture on Instagram? I have to look. She is in Norway now and comes back on Tuesday.
With lots of love from the stormy sea to Canada
The Fab Four of Cley
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Lovely photographs and setting. I preferred the shots with spots of color. This is a small point, but the consistency of color was off a bit — and is difficult to do with a series of photographs of the same subject.. Thanks for this posting.
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Dar Michael
thanks to really look at Dina’s pictures. It’s something like taste we share that we prefer shades of more or less one colour only. Colour Minimalists we are – actually not always, but we like it.
Thanks and a happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Oh parked cars they are a nemesis to the photographer! Such beautiful captures and I enjoyed a sneak peak over on Instagram. Seeing the set of them it is like a travel brochure in the making. I chuckled at the miscommunication over the meaning of Cots. That definition perhaps not suitable for the brochure.
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Hi, dear Sue,
thank you very much for your commentary and liking Dina’s pictures.
Dina just contemplates a series “The most beautiful market town/village in England”. We’ll see.
Wishing you all the best for the weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Beautiful pictures. We were there on a rainy day. I’d go back again but with a driver!
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Thanks a lot.
A what a pity it was raining there.
Wishing you a great weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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So lucky for me, I have the best of all drivers! I find the winding country lanes demanding, especially when it gets dark.November brings you all kinds of weather, I love this time of the year. Thank you so much for visiting!
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@ Dina
Thanks a lot, dear Dina! I am used driving those small country roads from Norfolk.
Have a happy Sunday
Klausbernd
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How did you get the Arlington Row with no people and no cars, Dina! I now know the name of a place my father photographed in the 1950s!!
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Luck? Well, it was midweek, a gloomy late afternoon November. We drove through the winding tiny roads of Bibury and the suddenly the road opened and on the left hand side we saw this long stretch of parking lots. We immediately knew we where right, so many people with camera gears drove off. Still plenty there to destroy a photo, but with a bit of patience, the Row was free, but only for a couple of seconds. Selma was constantly on the lookout and called, “hurry up, Dina!!, you have to be quick, you’ll only have a few seconds, there’s another small group of Chinese on its way!!” The small groups of Japanese and Chinese are the worst photo bombers. They stop, pose, and you know how they pose, right 😉 – in front of every single house. I mean every house. And then it makes the row. Every one makes a photo of every one and every one wants to have a solo posing photo in front of the loveliest house. But do you know what the best thing is? Klausbernd is the most patient travel buddy you can think of. He never complains, he doesn’t make me feel bad. He just says, “oh, this might not be the right moment, if you wait a bit, it will get better. I’ll take Siri for a walk, see you and Selma later.” 🙂
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Oh, fantastic! But I confess to having limited patience in some scenarios!
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So I get to see the surroundings of the tourists attraction where usually no tourist will go. Siri and me we love it.
Happy weekend
Klausbernd
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Have a lovely weekend, Fab Four!
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🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Beautiful photos.
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Dear John,
thank you very much 🙂 🙂
Wishing you a happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Just a beautiful area to explore. Was there in 2001 and it was outstanding.
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Good morning, dear Terry
thanks a lot 🙂 🙂
We wish you a great weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Jaja, neuzeitliche Autos und Satellitenschüssel, Verkehrsschilder etc. können in solchen Gegenden schon der Fotografie abträglich sein, wenn man das Idyllische in den Vordergrund stellen will. Kenne ich.
Eine Freundin von mir kommt aus den Cotswolds und niemals hätte ich das Wort mit unangenehmen und irgendwie verkehrten Ausscheidungen in Verbindung gebracht. Einmal habe ich dort auch in einem B&B übernachtet. Churchill hing an der Wand des Frühstücksraums über einem imposanten Ledersessel, draußen ein idyllisches Gärtchen, in dem alles zweimal vorhanden war – ein Spleen der Gastgeber: jedes Tier, jede Pflanze doppelt, englisch-skurril eben, uns gefiel’s. Im Dorfpub waren Frauen noch ungewöhnlich (ja, ist lange her).
Danke euch für die Impressionen mit dem gewohnten Augenzwinkern.
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Herzlichen Dank für deinen ausführlichen Bericht. Ja, da haben sich die Cotswolds schon mächtig weiterentwickelt, durch die Touristen nehmen wir an. Aber von der Architektur und Landschaft ist zum Glück alles so geblieben, es scheint zeitlos zu sein.
Mit lieben Grüßen vom sonnigen Meer
The Fab Four of Cley
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Wow photographs, for sure! I did enjoy the laughter over cots! Of course it only works in German! 🙂 Not English, where sometimes people sleep on cots!
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Yeah, it’s a pity that this play of words works with German, Dutch, Swiss and Austrian German only. As we live here for that long it didn’t trigger this association for us.
Wishing you a great weekend, sunny and happy
The Fab Four of Cley
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Thanks for your reply. And of course, cots with English pronunciation is the same as German for “cat!” Thus going to visit “Cat World!: 🙂 tc
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Funny association, but unfortunately wrong. “Cots” even pronounced in roughest English dialect does not sound like “Katze” in German. Sorry 😦
Happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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It must be in my Pennsylvania Dutch dialect of German. Incidentally it is also the pronunciation of “short!” Have a great weekend!
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Thank you
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Wow those are such lovely cottages 😍
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indeed!
Happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Looks so beautiful 🙂
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Thanks, dear Joshi 🙂 🙂
Wishing you a great weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Das sind super Fotos, stelle mir gerade die Skyline von New York daneben vor….
Ein Traum wäre es, ein Haus zu haben, das schön ist und in dem man sich rundum wohl fühlen kann und das sich in die natürliche Landschaft einfügt…finde ich….
Heutzutage werden Baumaterialien verwendet, da kann man schon das Kotzen bekommen.
Schönes Wochenende und herzlichen Dank – was man sich alles noch bewusst machen kann (könnte)!!
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Hi, liebe Pia,
wenn ich mich hier umgucke, werden schon auch wunderschöne moderne Häuser gebaut, die sich fein in die Landschaft einfügen. Diese Cottages sind ja fein zum Betrachten, aber wohnen möchte ich darin nicht – zu klein, zu zugig und nasskalt, und natürlich viel zu viel Rummel dort. Ich lebte zuerst in Cley in einem Cottage aus dem 16. Jh. Wenn ich den Müll hinausbrachte, wurde ich fotografiert, es wurde ständig während der Saison fotografiert. Nervig!
Machs gut, gemütlichen 2. Advent, liebe Grüße vom sonnigen Meer
The Fab Four of Cley
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Siri, Selma , you know what?! I am so happy to follow your blog! Never l oo se den (Woll) Faden, behalte den Durchblick und folge den Hinweisen….
Hier schneit es gerade wieder schön…
Alles weiß draußen…
Viele schicken heute Bilder von Kerzen per WhattsApp, seems crazy to me….es sind nicht mal die Kerzen, die sie selbst angezündet habe…
I will light one now or two
(Hihi, Wörter sind so lustig, Liebdrücker an Dina und KB!!!!!)
trage übrigens keine Ringe
Ja und weiß es ja, Ohrwurm mit Ohrwurm ersetzen: Diesemal: Johnny Cash “Ring of Fire”
habe Seite 242 aus KBs Großem Traumdeutungskompass in sämtliche, mir zur Verfügung stehende, Whatsapp Gruppen versendet, es war mir ein Bedürfnis…da stehen wirklich ein paar allgemein interessante Infos, die das Leben erleichtren können…
Im Pfalzbau gab/gibt es das spannende Stück “Gute Pässe, schlechte Pässe”, mit vielen Statisten bildeten wir eine lebende Mauer, es ist wie gesagt spannend!
Siri, Selma, hier könnte man schon richtig Schlitten fahren….
Liebe Grüße vom verschneiten Schillerplatz, Jonas ist im Fußballstadion, ob die roten Teufel im Schnee spielen, weiß ich allerdings nicht..
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I love UK so much and her towns, villages are amazing, like a fairy town.. Fascinated me all these photographs and beautifully expressed, explained. Thank you dear Dina, and Klaus, have a nice weekend, Love, nia
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Dear Nia
fairy towns and fairy villages – exactly!
Thanks for liking Dinas photography 🙂 🙂
We wish you a wonderful weekend as well
The Fab Four of Cley
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We spent a day in the Cotswolds when we went to England for a visit and found them utterly charming. Your photographs are beautiful and make me long to return.
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Thank you very much for liking Dina’s photography 🙂 🙂
Indeed, the Cotswolds are charming – and nearly every village and market town.
Wishing you a cosy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Beautiful photos of this lovely, charming village, Fab Four of Cley!
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Good afternoon, dear Amy,
thanks for liking Dina’s photography 🙂
Wishing you a wonderful weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Wie schön! Wenn dort etwas frei wird, sagt mir Bescheid.
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Aber hallo, ob du das wirklich willst? Teuer und winzig ist so ein Cottage. Du kannst dich an den National Trust wenden und dich um ein Cottage der Arlington Row dort bewerben.
Liebe Grüße vom regnerischen Meer
The Fab Four of Cley
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Arlington Row 9 ist eine Cottage for Feriengäste. Die anderen sind längerfristig vermietet, und recht kostspielig noch dazu. Es ist unbedingt davon abzuraten.
Die Busse stehen hier tagtäglich Schlange um ihre Touristen abzuladen, gut dass wir das nicht wussten. 😉 Vor einige Jahren besuchte der Kaiser von Japan Bibury und seitdem ist der Ort fast wie eine Pilgerstätte für die Japaner.
Liebe Grüße aus dem schön frostigen Norwegen,
Dina x
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A delightful description of this very English village. Dina’s photography is superb. I’ve seen many pictures of Cotswold villages but I cannot recall any to surpass these. The composition, warmth, textures and atmospheric skies combine in a manner that avoids chocolate box sentimentality – and that is difficult to achieve with such a familiar subject.
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Dear Louis
THANK YOU SO MUCH 🙂 🙂 You describe perfectly well what Dina wanted to achieve.
Wishing you all the best
The Fab Four of Cley
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Have a great holiday! Hope you don’t get snowed in!
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Well, well getting snowed in … There is no danger here at the coast, it’s too mild. Just now we have a strange phenomenon a tiny bit above freezing and rain. We would prefer snow and being snowed in sound quite cosy as we have enough dry firewood and food and drink and just in case central heating and an electric blanked.
Thanks and cheers
The Fab Four of Cley
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Some lovely textures there!
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Dear Graham
thanks a lot 🙂 🙂
Wishing you all the best
The Fab Four of Cley
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Ziet er echt bijzonder uit.Fijne vakantietijd toegewenst
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Hallo, dear Natuurfreak
indeed, this Arlington Row is very special, but you wouldn’t believe it how many really idyllic villages and market towns are in the Cotswolds.
It was a great short holiday, we really enjoyed.
We wish a happy week and thanks a lot
The Fab Four of Cley
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I may be the last human on earth but this is the first time I’ve actually seen Arlington Row. I’ve heard and read about the Cotswolds, and of course seen all of the movies that feature them, but this post is the first that really helped me to feel what life must have been in the past. Thanks and a beautiful December filled with holiday spirit to the Fab Four
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Thank you very much, dear Tina 🙂 🙂
We are already very excited because Dina comes back from Norway on Tuesday, then we start decorating our house. We love it. There is a big trunk full of Christmas stuff, partly old decorations from Norway, Finland, Germany and England. We usually prefer the Norwegian decorations which are like the English with reindeer but more ascetic, clear as from the arts-and-crafts movement. Our gardener will bring a little Christmas-tree next week – girly stuff, as he calls it, because for him it’s much to small. And the GREATST is baking special Christmas cookies using old recipes from Norway and Germany and Fairy wisdom …
We wish you a very cosy pre-Christmas time and sending love from the rough sea
The Fab Four of Cley
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Love “News from Nowhere and other Writings”… 🙂
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Thank you very much.
We have to admit we didn’t read “News from Nowhere and other Writings” by William Morris. We only know that it is an utopic novel. But we will have a look. Thanks for reminding us 🙂 🙂
All the best
The Fab Four of Cley
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I hope you like it. I re-read it again during the Bush Administration x2, with him talking about the threat of his version of the New World Order.
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I am looking forward reading it 🙂
Thanks a lot.
Wishing you a great pre-Christmas time
The Fab Four of Cley
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Enjoy your holiday in this lovely spot where time seems to have stopped.
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Thank you! We have had a happy holiday.
Now we are at home again and we will start to prepare everything for Christmas next week 🙂 🙂
Wishing you all the best
The Fab Four of Cley
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Merry Christmas to the Fab Four!
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🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
Thank you
to you as well
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And to you, Tanja! 🤗🎅🎄🤶🤗
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I love the photos! This looks like such a quaint little town, like a place you could really slow down and relax for awhile 🙂
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Yes, it is like you write – a place to slow down. We had this feeling in a lot of Cotswolds villages and market towns.
Thanks and have a wonderful week
The Fab Four of Cley
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Inside my passport? I have a newly-issued passtport and I must admit, I didn’t know about the Arlington Row inside it. Now I looked it up. This is amazing! It probably means that Bibury now is the most depicted village in the world!!
Wonderful pics, lovingly written post, dear friends, always with a twinkle in the eye.
I’ll sign up for a membership in your club of the furious fabulous car destroyers . Can’t have a car destroying a nice picture, no way. Fancy how nice Lavenham or in your case, Burnham Market would appear without all those horrible cars. Would serve all the have-plenty-Londoners right to park outside the village, don’t you think. 😉
Sarah xox
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Dear Sarah
what a GREAT idea. We are getting flooded with this have-plenty-Londoners and even more highly successful Cambridge Dons and film people in about a week’s time and they will be gone again after the first week of January. No beautiful picture of high street possible! And at the Arlington Row it’s much, much worse. If you want to meet Chinese or Japanese go there. Anyway – cars should be banned there! Great that you joined the club 🙂 🙂 A warm WELCOME.
All the best
The Fab Four of Cley
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Thank you! I’m happy to join this exclusive Car Club!;-) Keep me updated if there any other unwanted objects worthy of demolition.
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A lovely part of the world. Back in the 1970s I had a girlfriend, whose family lived in Shipton Oliffe, not far from Bibury. We often visited her parents there.
Christmas Eve 1976 we were driving down from London to the Cotswolds, when we picked up a friend called Rachel, who was also joining her family for Christmas.
By the time we got to Rachel’s parents’ house I was, well, let’s call it a rather merry, it being Christmas Eve and all that. I’d been put in the back of the car with a bottle of brandy to nurse, so the girls could chat. Rachel’s mother came to the door to greet us. She invited my girlfriend and I in for a drink and a bite to eat, while telling us a group of carol singers were coming round to sing for grandad later in the evening, and we might like to stay for that. Glancing round, if the expansive entrance hall was anything to go by, the place was rather grand. A very tall Christmas tree reached up into the stairwell of a magnificent winding statircase. After eating, Rachel’s mother invited us to join the rest of the family by a roaring fire in the drawing room. On getting there I got the feeling I wasn’t the only one a bit the worse for wear, Rachel’s dad seemed very ‘merry’ as he bumped into me on his way to the whisky decanter in his effort to get there first. Rachel’s mother was also a lot jollier than the anticipation of a group of carol singers might have warranted.
Meanwhile, apparently unperturbed by all the merriness going on in his vicinity, Grandad was sitting in a winged armchair by the hearth, his face hidden by The Times he was reading. When Rachel’s announced our presence to him, he lowered his paper and I found myself staring into the face Harold MacMillan. I’d completely forgotten Rachel, was Rachel MacMillan, daughter of Maurice MacMillan the MP, and grand-daughter of the former prime minister. The sense of disapproval he conveyed before swiftly getting back to his newspaper was tangilble. How I wish I’d been sober enough to chat.
The MacMillan’s country retreat at that time was Highgrove House, which later became the country retreat of Prince Charles.
That’s one of my Cotswolds experiences.
The 1970s were quite a time for me, there are as many bits I can’t remember as there are bits I’d rather forget.
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Dear Bryan
thank you very, very much for writing about your Christmas meeting with MacMillan at Highgrove.
Dina did buy some Christmas presents at the Highgrove shop but we didn’t visit Prince Charles. Our dear Bookfayries don’t like the etiquette they have follow there and we neither.
Well, what a Cotswolds experience. Thanks for sharing.
Wishing you a great pre-Christmas time
The Fab Four of Cley
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Now that’s a story impossible to beat, Bryan!!
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Ups, it went off unintended (phones are NO good (for blogging)).
Holy shit, this story needs a greater audience, please get in touch with a newspaper.:-)
We didn’t visit Highgrove, but I thought about it. It’s closed anyway during wintertime. And I would have kicked myself, visiting the grounds without this excellent story! On our way towards Bath we had a stopover in Tetbury and we had a look at the Highgrove Shop. We were quite impressed with ecological support of HRH.
Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful Christmas story, Bryan. Have you posted it on your blog? 🙂
Greetings from Fredrikstad,
Dina x
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Yes, I agree!
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Liebe Hanne, lieber Klausbernd,
na, da habe ich doch gleich wieder was dazugelernt, da mir dieses einerseits berühmte Dörfchen vollkommen unbeaknnt war und trotzdem bekannt, duch die verschiedenen Kinoprodutkionen, die ich natürich auch schon gesehen habe, Lieben Dank für die wudnerbaren Fotos liebe Hanne. Oh, das kenne ich, wenn die vierrädrigen Blechkutschen einem das vogestellte Foto vermasseln. Umso schöner, dass es dir gelungen ist diese aus dem Foto fern zu halten. Wie immer, ein sehr gelungener Beitrag Eures tollen Blogs!! Liebe Grüße aus dem trüb-kalten Freiburg!!
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Guten Tag, lieber Konrad
hier haben wir auch ein Wetter vom Fürchterlichsten: Sprühregen bei 1 Grad C, das ist gemütliches Drinnenhockwetter.
Wir kannten ja die Cotswolds auch noch nicht und waren erstaunt über die Idylle pur dort. Ich glaube, wir werden noch ein paar Bilder davon zeigen. Und weißt du, dass dort – in Lack, wo wir 2 Tage weilten – die moderne Fotografie erfunden wurde? Talbot lebte in dem grandiosen Herrenhaus des Ortes und experimentierte dort mit dem Fixieren von Lichtbildern und kam so zu der Idee, wie man Bilder entwickeln kann. Dort gibt’s natürlich ein Museum und eine Ausstellung frühster Fotografien, die uns gut gefallen haben. Sehr graphisch.
Anyway, wir wünschen dir und Astrid eine hochgemütliche Vorweihnachtszeit und senden liebe Grüße nach Freiburg
Klausbernd und Siri 🙂 & 🙂 Selma
Dina kommt übermorgen nach Hause 🙂 🙂
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It looks like a very tranquil place to be.
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Appearance can be deceptive … The danger of looking through rose tinted glasses 😉
Have a happy week
The Fab Four of Cley
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Looking at these stunning photos, I feel what you clearly felt when you were there. Yes, it’s a place that makes one feel that all is right. And, the history and backstory is excellent. Thank you!
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Dear Jennie
thank you so much for your kind words. We really loved it there.
Wishing you a happy pre-Christmas time
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My pleasure!
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🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Diese Häuserzeile ist ja enorm! 🙂
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Ja, das ist sie wirklich und zieht deswegen auch so viele Touristen an.
Mit lieben Grüßen von der regnerischen Küste Norfolks
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Regnen tut es hier auch, Klausbernd. Zwei Tage längere Fahrt bei schwierigen Verhältnissen (Schnee) gerade hinter mir…ich bin bedankt!
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Oh dear …
Ich muss morgen Nacht mit Sirilein und Selmachen nach Norwich fahren, um die liebe Dina vom Flughafenbus abzuholen. Wir hoffen, dass wir kein Glatteis haben werden. Aber unser Volvo ist schon ganz gut winterfit. Da wir lang in Skandinavien und Finnland lebten, sind wir es gewohnt, bei Schnee und Eis zu fahren – aber die anderen Fahrer oft nicht.
Mit lieben Grüßen vom rauen Meer
The Fab Four of Cley
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Gutes Gelingen 🙂
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Danke 🙂 🙂
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Thank you for introducing this idyllic place to us. I had never heard of Arlington Row and Bibury wiith its crooked small streets and thatched roof houses! They are absolutely gorgeous, very charming indeed. I’ll make sure to put it in our list, this beauty shouldn’t be missed if we make our long planned road trip through England one day.
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Dear Paul
on your road trip through England you shouldn’t miss the Cotswolds. They are very special and you can combine it perfectly well with a visit of Bath and Oxford.
We wish you a great pre-Christmas time.
All the best
The Fab Four of Cley
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The photos are indeed beautiful and transport you back to a different time. Love that last photo!
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Thank you very much for liking Dina’s photography 🙂 🙂
All the best
The Fab Four of Cley
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Her photos are magnificent.
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Thank you so much for liking Dina’s photography 🙂 🙂
The Fab Four of Cley
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Wieder wunderschöne und sehr stimmungsvolle Aufnahmen ! 🙂
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Dankeschön! Das freut uns, dass dir Dinas Fotos gefallen. Das ist aber auch eine superromantische Häuserzeile, wie sie selbst in England selten zu finden ist.
Mit lieben Grüßen aus dem regnerischen Cley mit steifer Brise
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Amazing pictures.
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Thank you very much 🙂 🙂
Wishing you an easy pre-Christmas time
The Fab Four of Cley
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Beautiful post! Now I want to go there!
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Dear Patti
We are sure you would like it there, but avoid the summer. The Cotswolds are great in autumn and winter. Too much tourists there in summer.
Thanks for commenting and have a cosy pre-Christmas time
The Fab Four of Cley
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Have a marvelous Christmas too. Thanks for the travel tips, Klausbernd!
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Aww… I see myself visiting this place, seems so peaceful. Simply beautiful! Thanks for sharing.
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Thank you very much 🙂 🙂
We wish you a happy pre-Christmas time
The Fab Four of Cley
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Eindrückliche Bilder und interessante Informationen, danke euch! Klasse. Übrigens mache ich das auch öfters, dass ich von einem Ort Ansichtskarten kaufe und so Zeit finde, all die schönen Details des Ortes mit offenen Augen zu betrachten…
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Guten Tag, lieber Ernst,
erstaunlicher Weise haben wir heute einen echten Wintertag 🙂 🙂 🙂 :-), einen sehr schönen dazu mit Sonnenschein und die Temperaturen stiegen nicht über Null Grad, was äußerst selten hier ist.
Ja, die Idee von Eco ist gar nicht so schlecht, wie sie beim ersten Lesen erscheinen mag und du folgst ihr schon, wahrscheinlich ohne seine Kolumne gelesen zu haben. Man will ja die Welt nicht nur durch Sucher und Display erleben!
Hab herzlichen Dank für deinen Besuch und den Kommentar.
Wir wünschen dir eine wunderschön gemütliche Vorweihnachtszeit
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Now in addition to Katzen I’ve added kotzen. At this rate I’ll have a good German vocabulary in a hundred years.
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🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
Need some new words?
Lieber (dear) Steve
danke (thanks) für deinen Kommentar (for your commentary)
Wir wünschen dir (we wish you) eine tolle Vorweihnachtszeit (a great pre-Christmas time)
Alles Gute (all the best)
The Fab Four of Cley
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Have a wonderful time on your adventures and thank you for sharing the beauty with me. Hugs and love coming to my dear friends, the Fab Four of Cley.
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Dear Clanmother Rebecca
you are very welcome 🙂
We had a wonderful little in the Cotswolds and now we are enjoying our cosy home. Dina comes back from Norway tonight and then our Christmas season begins with baking and decorating our house. We love this pre-Christmas season!
With big HUGS and xxxxx
The Fab Four of Cley
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I am there with you!!!
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Ooo – I’m in love with those cottages. So gorgeous!
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Dear Lady Fi
indeed, they are. And there are many such idyllic rows of houses everywhere in the Cotswolds.
Wishing you a great pre-Christmas time
The Fab Four of Cley
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Einfach nur bezaubernd und wunderschön! Ich bin froh, dass es unter Denkmalschutz steht!! 😄
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Die Engländer tun viel für ihr kulturelles Erbe und da ist speziell der NT (National Trust) hervorzuheben, der Mengen alter Gebäude und auch Landschaften besitzt und sie vorbildlich pflegt. Eigentlich gehören uns als Mitglieder auch diese Häuser, die übrigens ziemlich teuer an langfristige Mieter vermietet werden.
Liebe Grüße und eine gemütliche Adventszeit
The Fab Four of Cley
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Ja, es ist erstaunlich und bewundernswert wieviel Mühe sich die Engänder damit geben.
Wünsche euch vieren auch eine herrliche und besinnliche Adventszeit! Liebe Grüße!
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Ganz herzlichen Dank 🙂 🙂
Wir haben gerade den Weihnachtsschmuck fürs Haus herausgeholt und nachher bekommen wir einen feinen kleinen Weihnachtsbaum, den wir in anthroposophischer Tradition mit roten Schleifchen und Kerzen dekorieren werden, weil Siri und Selma das so lieben.
Mit vorweihnachtlichen Grüßen
The Fab Four of Cley
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A time out such as this provides that thoroughly unforgettable experience which can only last, and last, and last a lifetime.
Just what you busy as beavers need to relax and come away with peaceful memories and photographic treasures.
Thanks for taking us along
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Good afternoon, dear Eddy
you are very welcome.
Yes, these pictures will stay in our minds. And actually we did this trip very slowly. The old villages let us calm down and we had a great relaxing 10 days there.
We wish you a happy pre-Christmas time
The Fab Four of Cley
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Certain buildings and places are just more photogenic than others and Cotswolds cottages certainly qualify. Enjoy the peacefulness as it won’t be peaceful after the next post. Thousands of villagers (whose village did not make the “prettiest village” cut) across the UK will have their knives in for you 🙂 i suspect you will have to go into a witness protection plan or something and change you identity. You and Dina will have to become fairies as well…
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Dear Abrie
well, Siri and Selma recommended us becoming fairies as well. Actually we don’t mind, is great to live in the fairy world being able to communicate with weather and flower fairies and being in a way untouchable.
You made us aware we should consider our next post. Oh dear, what a dangerous subject. We could be tarred and feathered 😦 😦
Thanks for the warning!
We wish you a great pre-Christmas time
The Fab Four of Cley
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🙂
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Such wonderful photos breathed life into the stones, and showed the cottages better than I have ever seen them.
As always, the delightful combination of images and text lifts such travel reportage to a whole new level.
You four are unsurpassed in your continued excellence.
Love from Beetley, Pete and Ollie. X
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Thanks a lot, our dear friend, it made us very happy reading your commentary.
Dina came back from Norway yesterday and today we were already very busy with getting up our Christmas decoration. In the afternoon we’ll get a nice little tree and then our house will become Christmas wonderland. Siri and Selma love it 🙂 🙂 – and we as well.
With lots of love from Cley, where it’s much too warm for a genuin Christmas feeling,
The Fab Four of Cley
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Schön, dass diese Häuser erhalten geblieben sind. Wenn man die Fotos betrachtet, fühlt man sich fast in diese andere Zeit versetzt. Toll, liebe Dina, wie es Dir gelungen ist, die besondere Atmosphäre, die diese Häuser ausstrahlen, fotografisch festzuhalten. Ein feiner Beitrag, der mir rundum wieder sehr gefallen hat.
Liebe Grüße von der Silberdistel
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Dankeschön!
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
Wir sind gerade mit unserer Weihnachtsdekoration beschäftigt und nachher bekommen wir einen feinen kleinen Weihnachtsbaum. Siri und Selma sind jetzt schon hin und weg.
Wir freuen uns, dass dir Dinas Fotografie gefällt.
Mit lieben Grüßen
The Fab Four of Cley
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I am probably ignorant not even to have heard about Bibury and Cotswolds cottages. But what an amazing place and equally astonish architecture. No doubt, it’s a romanticized image of England, as you have a discussion about with somebody else commenting the blog. But one can still admire the atmosphere and feel spellbound. 🙂
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Dear Otto
it’s romanticized (by us as well) but we loved this atmosphere of “the good old times” in a lot of those idyllic Cotswolds villages and were, as you write, spellbound. We became a bit like children having fun in their fairy tale world.
Thanks a lot for commenting and wishing you an easy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Aunt and Uncle have invited us to visit in Sidmouth. I hope we can make it next year. This post makes me think about it 🙂
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If you will go there, please, blog about it because Dina and Selma always wanted to go to Devon. And even our dear Master only drove through Devon on his way to Cornwall. Devon is further South than the Cotswolds.
Wishing you a great pre-Christmas time
The Fab Four of Cley
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We visited there a few years ago so there are a couple of old posts about it. Here’s one – https://imagesbytdashfield.wordpress.com/2014/03/09/back-in-the-u-k-exeter-devon-dartmoor/ I hope Dina and Selma enjoy.
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Yes, we do indeed!
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Reblogged this on Shift2Drive.blog.
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Dear Sylvain
thank you very for reblogging 🙂 🙂 We feel honoured.
We are just busy with baking Christmas cookies.
Have a happy pre-Christmas time
The Fab Four of Cley
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What a charming place – indeed like a Midsommer Murders village most especially in the earliest seasons. 🙂
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Dear Imelda
thank you very much for commenting 🙂 🙂
We wish you a wonderful pre-Christmas time
The Fab Four of Cley
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Striking, indeed. I would have been tempted to dump any car blocking that view in the nearest deep lake.
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Dear Colonialist
Well, well, we had to hold back Siri and Selma not to get the car out of Dina’s way with her (wicked) fairy magic.
Wishing you a relaxed and happy holiday season and thanks for commenting
The Fab Four of Cley
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
By the way, I was specialized on the history of polar expeditions and to my understanding you were absolutely right in your judgement about Scott. But the Navy tried hard to make Scott a hero.
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🙂
And to all of you with all 8 fab feet of Cley?
Actually, they did a pretty good job of it. Most people of British backgrounds tend to think of him as such. My contrary views were not well received.
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Dear Colonialist,
I just answered Valerie with facts. Well, in a way Scott was a shame for the British imperialism and the navy. Valerie presents the view of the navy (having been a member of the navy) that tried hard to make Scott to a romantic hero. That should make people forget that he was mis-organized looser.
I think you were absolutely right – and as I said I tried to get some facts right in my answer to Valerie I just wrote a couple of minutes ago.
Wishing you a happy holiday season
Klausbernd and the rest of The Fab Four of Cley
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I’ve seen pictures from Cotswold in “escape to the country “ BBC series. I would love to visit!
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Dear Gunnar
thank you very much for commenting 🙂 🙂
We keep our fingers crossed that you are able to visit the Cotswolds soon.
Wishing you a happy holiday season
The Fab Four of Cley
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You should come. 🙂
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What a lovely place! Really looks like another century…thanks to the yoga practicing photographer 🙂 Dylan and I wish you all Happy Holidays ❤
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Dear Tiny and Dylan
we wish you a happy holiday season as well 🙂 🙂 Have a wonderful time in lovely Stockholm. For our dear Master Stockholm is the most beautiful city in Europe.
All the best and lots of love ❤ ❤
The Fab Four of Cley
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hello dina its dennis the vizsla dog hay thoze kottadjes shoor do luk like a grayt playse to go and relaks and git away frum the wurld for a littel wile!!! so kozy and warm!!! dada sez it luks like their shud be hobbits arownd their but he thinks their shud be hobbits in all kinds of playses so i just toon him owt wen he starts babbling about stuf like that!!! ok bye
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Dear Dennis
you wouldn’t believe it, Siri and Selma actually found these Hobbits and couldn’t stop playing with them. We had problems to get them in or dear Volvo and drive away.
Have a great holiday season and thanks for writing, you are such an intelligent dog, we are impressed.
OK, bye, bye
The Fab Four of Cley
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Vielen Dank für diese wundervollen Aufnahmen. Ich habe meine diesjährige, erste Reise nach England sehr genossen. Jetzt aber weiß ich ganz bestimmt, dass ich wieder hinreisen werde.
Ganz herzliche Grüße aus Nordjütland und
glædelig jul!
Meermond
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Lieber Meermond
ja, nach England zu reisen, lohnt sich wirklich immer wieder. Es gibt so viele idyllische Dörfer und Landstädtchen. Ideal für den Romantik-Freak 😉
Habe herzlichen Dank für deinen Kommentar 🙂 🙂
Wishing you a great holiday season
The Fab Four of Cley
Post Scriptum
Ist dir schon aufgefallen, wie viele Expats hier bloggen?
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Stimmt, es ist ziemlich international hier 🙂 Sehr schön, wie ich finde!
Ich schreibe zwar fast nie, aber ich bin schon lange und gerne bei euch. Ganz toller Blog!
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Ja, prima! Das freuen wir uns 🙂 🙂
Hab tolle Feiertage
The Fab Four of Cley
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Danke, ebenfalls! Oder wie man hier sagt
Glædelig jul 🎄
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🙏🙏🙏🙏
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Dankeschön!
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Wahrscheinlich seid Ihr inzwischen bereits in diesen märchenhaften Cotswolds angekommen und sitzt jetzt vor dem Fernseher und schaut Euch Downton Abbey an, weil Ihr den Gral natürlich bereits gefunden habt! Ehrlich gesagt, weiss ich auch gar nicht, ob es dort wirklich so ruhig ist, weil es ja eine richtige Touristenattraktion sein soll. Dinas Fotos sind auf jeden Fall wieder eine Augenweide. Habt eine gute Zeit. Liebe Grüsse Martina
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Guten Abend, liebe Martina
nee, wir sind bereits seit über 2 Wochen wieder zurück. Du hast recht, die Cotswolds sind wunderschön im Herbst und Winter, aber im Sommer ist der Tourismus dort niederschmetternd.
Siri und Selma mit ihrer Feenweisheit fanden den Gral, aber nur da sie auf einem kleinen Umweg über Glastonbury nach Hause flogen.
Vielen Dank, dass dir Dina’s Fotos gefallen 🙂 🙂
Wir wünschen dir frohe Festtage.
Mit lieben Grüßen
The Fab Four of Cley
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Lieber Klausbernd und liebe Dina, ich freue mich sehr über diese ausführliche Antwort und wünsche auch euch fröhliche Weihnachten und viel Kraft:) im Neuen Jahr. Cari saluti Martina
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Vielen 🧡lichen Dank, liebe Martina
wir wünschen auch dir ein frohes Fest und ein gaaaanz tolles Neues Jahr
💃👭🚶♂️
The Fab Four of Cley
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Such a great story that you’ve written,
It’s such an amazing place where we could imagine a novel or a movie
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Dear Bernie
one can immediately understand that a lot of famous films were filmed there.
Thanks for commenting and wishing you a happy holiday season
The Fab Four of Cley
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That area is so beautiful, you captures the idyll perfectly. I love it there!
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Thanks a lot, dear Ute
we wish you a happy holiday season
The Fab Four of Cley
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Same to you fab four!
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An absolute delight visiting the Cotswolds with the Fab Four, thank you. And happy holidays!
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Dear Jet,
thank you very much for liking our post 🙂 🙂 Great that you like it!
Wishing you happy holidays as well
The Fab Four of Cley
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Spectacular pictures! Warm greeting from Bhutan Hospitality Travel Club #welcometobhutan join us: http://www.bhutanhospitalitytravels.com
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Thank you very much! 😀😃
Warm greetings back from the small village next the big sea 🌊
The Fab Four of Cley
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who love that Bhutan has the right of happiness written down in its constitution.
We visited Bhutan several years ago and were impressed.
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The cottages are looking awesome in such Autumn light. Fantastic captures.
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Dear Sayanti
thank you very much! 🙏🙏 Great that you like our pictures❣️
Wishing you a happy and healthy New Year
💃🚶♂️👭
The Fab Four of Cley
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These cottages are magical! I have a new dream. I’d love to go inside them one day.
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🙏🙏🙏 Thanks a lot for liking Dina’s pictures.
Inside they are quite dark but cosy.
All the best for the New Year
💃🚶♂️👭
The Fab Four of Cley
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I missed this earlier, but no matter – it’s just as beautiful now, I’m sure! Dina, you’ve managed to pull all the texture and charm out of this place, and you’ve emphasized the settled aspect of it. Great work! A pleasure to explore with the eyes….
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Dear Lynn
so great that you like Dina’s photography❣️Thank you very much 🙏🙏
We wish a happy and healthy New Year
💃🚶♂️👭
The Fab Four of Cley
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Lol. Your sister sounds like fun! Such magnificent cottages — it’s like going back in time, and I have a deep urge to now wear a bonnet. 😀
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Dear Rose
thanks for your kind words❣️
We wish you all the best for the New Year, happiness and health.
With lots of love
💃🚶♂️👭
The Fab Four of Cley
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Thanks so much, Klaus. Happy New Year, Fab Four of Cley! ❤️
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Mir geht es bei dem Namen immer wie Siri und Selma! 😀 Ich kann mir da einfach nicht helfen.
Danke, liebe Dina, fuer die einmal mehr ausgezeichneten Fotos, die den Charakter dieser Region exzellent wiedergeben.
Liebe Gruesse ins kleine Dorf am grossen Meer,
Pit
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Guten Abend, lieber Pit
das freut uns, dass dir Dinas Bilder so gut gefallen. Selma protestiert gerade im Hintergrund: “ich habe kräftig mitgeholfen!” Klar, sie hat – übrigens mit Siris Hilfe – Leute und Autos erfolgreich verjagt. Da fragst du besser nicht wie.
Das kleine Dorf ist heute ganz wild durchweht und das Meer so rau, white horses so weit das Auge reicht. Voll toll 🌊🌊
Wir senden euch beiden gaaaanz liebe Grüße nach Texas
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Hallo Klausbernd,
hoffentlich hat es sich bei Euch wieder ausgeweht. Hier ist die Kaeltewelle vorbei – wenigstens voruebergehend. Es ist wieder ueber dem Gefrierpunkt – auch des nachts.
Habt ein feines Wochenende,
Pit
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Lieber Pit,
wir lachen uns ja hier schief über das Klagen deiner Landsleute an der Ostküste, die normale skandinavische Wintertemperaturen zwischen minus 20 und 30 Grad als arktisch empfinden. Solche Temperaturen waren normal, als ich in Finnland und Schweden lebte. Sie störten nicht das Alltagsleben selbst bei 2 m Schnee und mehr. Aber hier in England ist es ähnlich, ein wenig Frost und Schnee und die Leute stöhnen.
Also hab’s fein, du Lieber
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Hallo Klausbernd,
nun ja, weisst Du, in in Helsinki ist es heute mit -1 Celsius deutlich waermer als in New York [-10] oder Boston [-13]. Und wenn man dann bedenkt, dass New York auf etwa derselben geographischen Breite liegt wie Madrid oder Rom, dann sieht die Sache doch schon anders aus. Es ist eben Alles relativ. Dazu kommen Massen von Schnee. Schau doch mal in das Blog “Up State & Away” [https://waterlooseneca.com/2018/01/06/pictures-of-boston-january-the-evacuation/] von Robert Parker [er kommentiert ja auch bei Euch] rein: da wirst Du staunen ueber die Bilder. Da sieht es aus wie in Roland Emmerichs Katastrophenfilm “The Day after Tomorrow” [“https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After_Tomorrow]. Was wir hier im Fernsehen gesehen haben, ist wirklich unglaublich, z.B. Autos mitten in der Stadt im Eis festgefroren, nachdem eine Sturmflut die Strassen ueberspuelt hat.
Es kommt eben immer darauf an, woran man gewoehnt und worauf man demzufolge vorbereitet ist. Ich denke, es ist nicht zum Lachen, sondern eine echte Katastrophe da “oben”.
Hier bei uns kriegen wir davon nicht viel mit, nur “Auslaeufer” insofern als wir einen kaelteren “Winter” haben als ueblich. Wir haben schon ein paar Frosttage gehabt, und es werden noch mehr kommen. Im Gegensatz zum vergangenen “Winter”, in dem es gerade einmal zwei Tage unter dem Gefrierpunkt gab, plus ein paar Nachtfroeste. Es waere nur schoen, wenn wir auch etwas Schnee bekaemen – mehr als das bisschen “Puderzucker”, das wir am 8. Dezember [https://pitsfritztownnews.wordpress.com/2017/12/08/first-snow/] hatten. Aber danach sieht es nicht aus. Statt dessen hat es in Florida!!! geschneit. Kommt auch nicht gerade alle Tage vor.
Und das Ganze veranlasst unseren so wissenschaftlich hochgebildeten Praesidenten dann, davon zu faseln, dass er gerne haette, wenn es wirklich etwas “global Warming” gaebe.
Liebe Gruesse aus einem heute etwas trueben Fredericksburg an Euch Alle im kleinen Dorf am grossen Meer,
Pit
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Ja, lieber Pit, ich sah die Post. Wunderschöne Winterbilder, die mich an meine Winter in finnisch Lappland erinnerten (lang, lang ist’s her). Du hast du wohl recht, es ist alles eine Sache der Gewöhnung und natürlich auch der Ausrüstung. Weißt du was, im arktischen Finnland fuhr ich einen Käfer mit Schneeketten hinten und Kufen vorne. Ein tolles Gefährt.
Oh dear, euer Präsident … Dazu kann man gar nichts mehr sagen, braucht man auch nicht, man muss diesem “Genie” nur zuhören oder besser noch ihn lesen.
Dann mach’s mal gut 🙂
Liebe Grüße
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Naja, lieber Pit, den ganzen Winter über weht es hier mal mehr oder weniger stark. Zu unserer Freude sank heute im Laufe des Tages die Temperatur von 5 auf 0 Grad bei wunderbaren Sonnen ☀️ schein von morgens bis abends. Zur Zeit sind die Winter ja besonders mild wegen dieser sinusformigen Kurve der arktischen Konvergenz. Da liegen wir leider im Warmbereich.
Liebe ❤️ Grüße
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Klingt prima: ich komme rueber! 😀
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Komm bitte erst zu uns in North Norfolk❣️🙏🏻🙋🌊🇬🇧
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Wer weiss was wird. Aber Ihr koennt sicher sein, Ihr seid auf der “Besuchswunschliste” ganz weit oben! 🙂
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I find these photographs endearing and quaint. I could imagine they would inspire stories and poems. In the U.S. our area which looks like this, only add some color to distinguish the different cottages and you would be traveling through the older part of New England.
Someday, I hope to go to England, Scotland, Sweden, and Germany. These are the countries of my four grandparents. Smiles and hugs for each of the Fab Four of Cley. ❤❤❤❤
Hope you Four have a marvelous New Year! 🎆 ✨ 🎉
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Dear Reocochran
you are right. You know, we lived in Vermont and Maine for 4 years and we loved it there. Our dear Master sees most parts of New England as by far the best places to live in the US – and we saw nearly all states.
We keep our fingers crossed that you soon will be traveling to England, Sweden and Germany and Dina just says “don’t miss Norway!”
We wish you all the best for the New Year, health and happiness.
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The Fab Four of Cley
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So delightful! I imagine the neighbors are almost a family 🙂 Hope you have a wonderful holiday time, and wishing you a Happy 2018!
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Dear Ines
thanks a lot! We had a wonderful lazy and cosy holiday time and we hope you as well.
We wish you health and happiness for the New Year.
All the best
The Fab Four of Cley
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Thank you so much guys. Happiness for 2018! 🙂
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Lovely series of photos. Bibury is a place I know well, living not too far away at Brize Norton during my childhood. Always enjoyed feeding the fish at the trout farm 🙂
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Dear Simon,
so you were quite privileged being brought up in such a lovely part of England. But usually as a child one is not so much aware of this beauty – or have you been?
When we were children we living in places with lots and lots of snow at least for two month or longer but we just took it for granted. And now living on the mild coast of North Norfolk we miss the snow and became aware of the beauties of winter time.
We wish you all the best for the New Year and thanks for commenting
The Fab Four of Cley
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Such pretty cottages. So many English villages are really pretty and unspoilt. This must be one of the nicest of all. 🙂 Happy New Year to you all. 🙂
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Thank you very much. There are 11 villages like Castle Combe in England that are without any sights of modern technology and advertisement.
A happy New Year to you as well.
All the best
The Fab Four of Cley
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Here’s my late father’s monochrome image of Arlington Row in the early 1950s: https://suejudd.com/2018/08/04/six-word-saturday-in-another-quieter-world-circa-1950/
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We had a look, Sue. That’s a wonderful capture you’re presenting. You rather made a lovely capture of the Arlington row. I suppose I stood more or less on the same spot for the third image. I had to crop it a bit to remove the car to the left. 😉
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Well, my father was there in the very early 1950s, so no pesky tourists to dodge!!
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Oh dear, dear Sue, we forgot to answer, SORRY!
It’s amazing how tourism changed the atmosphere of quite some places.
Thanks for commenting and wishing you a great weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Not to worry! Tourism has certainly changed places….
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Woow is very interesting and impressive, congratulations on the work done.
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Thanks a lot for your kind words 🙂 🙂
Wishing you an easy week
The Fab Four of Cley
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