From Mom's Europe trip diary, in the "PLACES VISITED" section:
* According to the "HOTELS STOPPED AT" section of the trip diary, my mother and her friends stayed at Hawthorns Hotel in Bristol, England this night.
August 26, Wednesday – Road between Holyhead [Wales] and Bristol, [England]
Arrived in Holyhead at 11:45. Slept on steamer until 7 a.m., got off, had breakfast, & watched them unload car. Drove through mountains in Wales which were beautiful. Also drove through Severn River valley which looked lush and green. Had lunch in Wales on a small hill - cheese, sardines, crackers, olives, tomato juice. Very tasty, although almost froze to death. Drove on into Bristol to spend night.*
* According to the "HOTELS STOPPED AT" section of the trip diary, my mother and her friends stayed at Hawthorns Hotel in Bristol, England this night.
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| Part of the River Severn floodplain at Caersws [Wales, 25 August 2010] / © Jeremy Bolwell / CC BY-SA 2.0 |
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| The Hawthorns, University of Bristol [29 April 2008, cropped] / Francium12 / released to public domain |
The Hawthorns Hotel was originally a row of Victorian villas built in 1888, altered and extended, and joined together with infills constructed in the early 1950s (and one in the 1960s). It has been a residence hall at the University of Bristol since 1991.
This is the nineteenth in a series of posts about my mother's 1953 Europe Trip.
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