Posted by Prue Eckett on October 25, 2006 at 06:29:43 from 222.152.108.51 user PrueEckett.
In Reply to: Re: All Things Ransome - out of date images posted by Elizabeth on October 25, 2006 at 05:07:26:
Elizabeth - absolutely! Visiting England taught me so much and made so much apparent that I'd skimmed over in various books and programmes about the place.
NZ is much the same size as the UK but so stretched out in comparison, and with so much less detail and human-made history. To see a piece of Roman wall in the middle of a city, still with its parapet where the soldiers walked, to walk throught the ruins of an abbey dating from 12thC, and sacked by Henry VIII's soldiers, Viking villages, the White Horse on the downs... I guess its sometimes hard for the 'natives' to appreciate what is on their doorsteps.