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It was great to watch one of my England friends on her horse competing at the Hunter Trial at the cross-country course at Tweseldown, in Southern England. The jumps for this competition were 2’-9” high. This video is Part One of a three part series of videos I did about this event. The song is “Love Today” by Mika.

This is the second video from the October 21, 2007 Hunter Trial at the cross-country course at Tweseldown, in Southern England. The jumps for this competition were 2'-9" high. The song is "Love Today" by Mika.

Welcome to Arundel Castle, in Arundel, West Sussex, England . . . I love wandering around old castles in Europe. The Arundel Castle was "remodeled" and expanded around 1300AD, and the initial castle built around 1100AD . . . it's always interesting to me how castles were often times remodeled WELL before the United States was even in EXISTENCE! :) For more info on Arundel Castle (one of my favorite castles), please check out: http://www.arundelcastle.org/_pages/01_castle.htm In addition to the castle (which also has a restaurant), the grounds include a beautiful old chapel, and gardens, and the town of Arundel is the quintessential old English town, which also has a beautiful large cathedral called “Cathedral of Our Lady & St. Philip Howard” that I also did a video on. Here are the video links to the Cathedral video on both YouTube and LiveVideo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4vuRQidKBw and http://www.livevideo.com/video/DCE207A0164D4629A6CB4C4C3165AADC/-cathedral-of-our-lady-and-st-.aspx For castle history buffs, this website has lots of detailed info on the Arundel Castle: http://www.castles-abbeys.co.uk/Arundel-Castle.html The song is “Scarborough Fair” by Amy Nuttall.

Warwick Castle lies in the town of Warwick of the English county of Warwickshire. In 1978, Warwick Castle was sold to Tussauds, a large visitor attraction business. Tussauds performed extensive restorations to the castle and grounds in addition to opening its gates to the public. The castle today is a popular tourist attraction and attracts tens of thousands of visitors from all over the world.

As we were wandering around Chichester, England, my friend and I found “Wests Bar”, which is a great, friendly pub inside a former church. The song is “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere” by Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett.

Lewis Hamilton 'Brake Test' under Safety Car - Fuji 2007

Here is the second part of my brief video tour around portions of Horsham, in the southern part of England. The song for the video is a beautiful version of “True Colors” done by Eva Cassidy.

Brighton Pier (originally called Palace Pier) is a wonderful example of an old historic amusement pier, which is located at the southern seaport of Brighton, England. Construction on the pier began in 1891 and opened in May 1899, with a construction cost of around $300,000 (a LOT of money back then!). A concert hall opened on the pier two years later, but now no longer exists. Much of the original pier architecture remains, so when you walk on the pier, it’s like going back to a different era! The song is “On The Beach” by Chris Rea.

Here is another of my travelogue type videos (so no racing hydroplane boats or planes as in some of my other videos! LOL). This video is about the small village of Amberley, which has about 500 residents, and is located in the Horsham District of West Sussex, in Southern England. Most of the structures here were built in the 16th to 18th century, when Amberley was a farming community located on the main coaching road between Arundel and London. (I’ve done a video about Arundel Castle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7jZ0ggnC3w) and a video about the Cathedral of Our Lady & St. Philip Howard in Arundel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4vuRQidKBw), if you’d like to check those out too). There are approximately 55,000 thatched structures in England, and the village of Amberley is noted for its many thatched buildings. Wikipedia has a great web page about thatched roofs at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thatch. Amberley Castle (current website http://www.amberleycastle.co.uk/) used to be owned by Bishops from nearby Chichester, who used it as a hunting lodge and retreat. The castle is now a luxury country hotel that “offers 19 luxurious bedrooms and suites, many with four-poster beds and all featuring Jacuzzi bathrooms. Facilities include two restaurants, lounge areas, tennis court, croquet lawn, gardens and lakes, 18-hole professional putting course and a stunning thatched roof tree house complete with rope bridge”. The nave of St. Michael’s Church was built around 1140, and additional construction done around 1230. The faded wall paintings shown in this video were done around the 12-13th century, and depict scenes from the life of Christ. The song I used for the video is “Heartland” by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. I went to the reunion concert of this group a few years ago and it was an amazing evening :) :) I couldn’t, however, fully grasp the reality that SOOOOO many years had passed since I used to listen to this group when I was going to the university “way back when”!! LOL . . . “tempus fugits” . . .

Yep, another vid of me wandering aimlessly around LOL . . . I love exploring old towns and cities in England and other countries. It is SUCH a joy to wander around places NOT set up with the typical BORRRRING “grid pattern” that so many USA towns and cities embrace, so in places like the older parts of Horsham, England for instance, you’re sure to find quaint and VERY old meandering alleyways that exist to this day, as you walk around exploring the sights. The song choice is “100 Years” by Five For Fighting.

Yep, it’s another video of me wandering around (no surprise THERE! LOL) . . . . I’ve become QUITE good at aimless wandering in my 56 years on the planet LOL I’ve always found airports around the world to be a really interesting “ecosystem” to observe . . . happy people arriving for holidays or to see loved ones, sad people leaving loved ones or flyin’ back home to return to work, sad people arriving after great holidays, happy people leaving for vacations, bored business travelers rushing about, new visitors to the country with anxious looks on their faces, as they try to negotiate through an airport they’ve never been in before, parents tryin’ to keep track of overexcited young kids who are racing around everywhere . . . The song I chose for the video is “Leaving on a Jet Plane” . . . I’ve always liked this song, particularly the Peter, Paul, & Mary version from my younger years, but I’ve always thought that the lyrics of the song would make this song a great candidate for a romantic duet between a male and female singer, yet I was unable to find such a duet on iTunes, so I created a duet by inter splicing audio clips from the John Denver version and a version by Brit singer Sophie Barker. . . . THANKFULLY both singers sing their versions in the same MUSICAL KEY! LOL, so that made the splicing project VASTLY easier!! For those that have never heard of Sophie. . . she’s a singer best known for her work with the British down tempo group Zero 7. Sophie left University College London after two years to become a full-time singer, signing with Sony Records. She is the co-writer of the band's biggest hit, "Destiny". Barker released a solo album, Earthbound, in 2006. In 2006 she was also featured in a British Airways UK television campaign singing her version of "Leaving on a Jet Plane".

My England lady friend and I met up with YouTube friends Dominika (YTer "Nika441") and Anthony (YTer "Ajdpadbury") to ride on the London Eye and wander around London for the day, so we saw some great “living statues” and other street performers at the Thames River area near the London Eye. The song is “Scarborough Fair”, sung by Amy Nuttall.

World War I & II - Ok, it mainly has WWI vids so I may do a vid for WWII at some point. This vid could of been done better but I am on Windows ME at a friends and not at home to work on it properly, sorry. But I did try my best with an old version of Movie Maker. We meet 'neath the sounding rafters And the walls around are bare As they echo to our laughter 'Twould not seem that the dead were there Who dreads to the dead returning Who shrinks from that sable shore Where the high and haughty yearning Of the souls will be no more? So stand to your glasses steady 'Tis all we have left to prize Quaff a cup to the dead already And one to the next who dies Cut off from the land that bore us Betrayed by the land we find When the brightest have gone before us And the dullest remain behind There is not time for repentance 'Tis folly to yield to despair When a shudder may finish a sentence Or death put an end to a prayer Time was when we frowned on others We thought we were wiser then But now let us all be brothers For we never may meet again [ But a truce to this mournful story [ For death is a distant friend [ So here's to a life of glory [ And a laurel to crown each end So stand to your glasses steady 'Tis all we have left to prize Quaff a cup to the dead already ) And one to the next who dies (2x)

Matchless motorcycles, made in England

Just a little rant on how stupid things are getting in the UK

Here are some of the thousands of photos I've taken around London . . . some people photos . . . some touristy type photos . . . some photos of specific things that got my attention as I wandered around . . . I thought the monument shown in two of my photos within the video was amazing, because of the intense emotion that's conveyed via the grieving woman statue that is a part of that monument . . . you get the feeling that the deceased was sorely missed by somebody who loved him deeply . . . The song is Mary Chapin Carpenter's "This Shirt" . . . I thought it was the perfect "life's journeys" song to go with the video, because we all have particular backpacks, or shirts, or jackets that remind of us of particular people or places we've known during our lives . . .

Shows a parade in London on 13 May 2007, lots of military music and marching

Scientology could be recognised as a real religion in Britain.

I wanted to do a video showing the typical England horsebox that’s used to carry horses to and from horse shows. These units incorporate horse areas AND living and sleeping areas for the horse owners. This is Part Three of a 3 part series on the event in Tweseldown, England. The song is “On the Road Again” by Canned Heat.