Holiday's Part Two

Holidays Part Two

Week two of our Family Holidays consisted of a few days at home (doing absolutely NOTHING -    ), and then a few days, out and about, inclusive of a visit to my Brother - in - law near Leicester. After some discussions, we decided to have a couple of Day Out trips, one to Twycross Zoo, and then, the following day, a visit to the National Tramway Museum at Crich in Derbyshire.

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Twycross Zoo

It was Thursday, so it must have been the Zoo.Firstly, before I post the piccy's (or some of the better ones least ways) I have always been a bit nervous of the concept of Zoo's. I have, as far as possible, been a believer in the concept that Animals belong in their own surroundings. Before people start "commenting" , I'm also well aware that Mankind, amongst other circumstances, has been the major "issue" to many animals not having anywhere to go.

But it still makes me nervous.

I, like most people, have several favourite animals. Meerkats and Prairie Dogs are amongst them

I'm told that that the chimps for the Tetley Tea Adverts came from twycross Zoo. And Apes and Monkeys were obviously a large part of the work that this Zoo carries out

I just felt (and I'm probably wrong as the signs around the park used to say) that this Orang was looking a little sad - but, if you read the signs the "sad" look actually means that the Apes and Monkeys are fine. If they have a "smile" they are, apparently, under stress (the showing of teeth is an act of aggression)

You should have heard the "oohhs" and "arrghs" when people saw the real Monkey (or should I say Monkeys) involved below. In the pen there were a mixture of Black and Ginger coated animals, hopping from one pole to another. Then, from the back corner, another Ginger Furred animal appeared.

And then, our Laura saw that the Monkey was not alone. It was a mother and Baby

This bothered a few of the people stood around, although, of course no one could enter the pen and sort it out (below)

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The Crich Tramway Museum

I came to this sight a very long time ago as a young Scout. And my memories of then, compared with what we saw there now, everything was so different.

I know that some people don't see the point in looking at old types of transport (and to some extent I can see that argument myself) But Crich (and The National Railway Museum at York) are about more than the hardware. They are about the history, the people,the lifestyles that went with the Trains and Trams involved. I would recommend them both to anyone

And what's more, you not only get to look at well looked after pieces of history, you can ride on them too (Am I sad - or what?  )

This image is a bit "odd" for me. If you look over my "little boys" shoulder (Little - that's a good one) you will see the strap belonging to my "new" Nikon D70. So I had to take this picture with the "old" Fuji s5000 - still not bad though?

Although this was an image taken earlier in the day, you just couldn't stop all the kids (and that included several 40 + year old "kids") from wanting to ride on the open top deck.

As you can. For the second time in two days, my lad captured me on "film" (is that the right description for a digital picture?).

Hope you enjoyed the short skip through some of our holiday snaps