Mt St Bernards Abbey

Up by 7am and picked up by Enterprise rental guy at 9.30am to collect a small Vauxhall car for a visit to Uncle George. Takes about an hour to drive to Coalville and arrived in time for a quick yak before having lunch at Guest House.

Pete, Brother George & me. 

I have visited him everytime I have been in UK - too many years

Mt St Bernards Abbey - http://www.mountsaintbernard.org/

Met up with him again after lunch to talk the afternoon away. George travelled to NZ with my dad and Tom back in 1954 and have been lifetime friends - George had a few tales to tell. One being they were going through the Panama Canal and dad knocked George's pipe over board into the canal and quickly retrieved it with a colander that he go from the galley attached to a rope , just as well the ship was waiting for a lock- no wonder my father did so well in NZ.
Pete then got a guided tour of abbey - females are not allowed so I visited gift shop. Another coffee and a promise to visit again before we left to return to the boat via the M1. Dinner on the boat
A lovely day with a lovely man - God Bless you George