In a message dated 6/29/99 6:11:21 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
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<< The Weald and Downland Open
 Air Museum, outside the village of Singleton near Chichester  >>
Heidi -
I agree with Ian about this one, but give it a whole day. Best open air
museum I've seen. Take the train from Victoria Station to Chichester (don't
miss the Chichester cathedral). Outside of Singleton, you can stay at West
Dean, a great country home which is now a college offering courses in
landscaping, fine and applied arts, and such arcane disciplines as clock
restoration. You can walk to the W&D museum from there.

Since we're getting into this, I have a few suggestions for Edinburgh:

1.      Whistle Binky's - a pub off Cannongate near the Tron Kirk where each
night there is traditional Scottish music, although they occasionally break
into some Django Reinhart Hot Club stuff.

2.      St. Gile's Cathedral - where John Knox preached. Sections of the
church are Romanesque. Fantastic Thistle Chapel filled with carved figures -
one of a pig playing the bagpipes.  Aye Lassie, a good one.

3.      National Art Gallery - near the Lawn Market. Great setting, like a
private home showing Grand Tour art. Unfortunately, there is some great
Scottish Pre-Rafaelite work but it is stuffed into the basement.

4.      Contact Alan Forster, Dept. of Building Engineering and Surveying,
Heriot Watt University - [log in to unmask] - Great guy who is specializing
in lime research and concrete at Heriot Watt. Tell him I recommended you
contact him.

5. Sip a glass of Blair Atholl single malt for me. Very smoky, very evocative.

Mike Devonshire