Okay, I registered here back in January but only started posting regularly in the past week.

My real name is Mark Betton. I am 27, was born in Shrewsbury, UK where I still live (I have no ambition!) and work as an project manager for and electrical installation company. We work all over the UK mostly in the food industry and will soon be working worldwide if all goes to plan. I'm not really a frequent flier as of course, my travel is for pleasure. I have friends in Asheville, NC which is a lovely little city and fly to the US to stay with them as often as I can afford. The USA is a wonderful place and I only wish I could travel there more often.

I could really do with a new job that would involve fly to the US once or twice a month! http://talk.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

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Some men see things the way they are and say "Why?", I dream things that never were and say "Why not?" - Robert F. Kennedy

Scott

I'll be there unless I'm not in Pittsburgh http://talk.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif I fly out to LA for an extended weekend the weekend before and I have a feeling my job will ensure I travel as soon as I get back to 'make up for lost time'. I actually have only been downtown twice; once just passing through on a public bus and once to see the Nutcracker at Heinz hall. I much prefer being able to get around and park at will in Robinson and Moon Township, near the airport.

MarkB: I am not sure, but I think, back in 1964 I stayed, on a tennis promotion tour, on our way to Cardiff, at a Tudor mansion/pension (a 16th century house?) in/near your home-town - is this lovely place still there?

dg1

We'll work out something closer to the airport which is convenient for all if your available.

Cheers Scott

Rudi: I'm sure the place will still be around. Shrewsbury is a medeivel market town so we have many buildings dating from that era. I you can remembera little more about the place I will look into it.

ok -Gisela found the old fotos, Tudor House or Hotel (?),Fish Street, Shrewsbury (it was in the very center of your old/medieval town).

Rudi: Indeed you coudln't get much closer to the centre than Fish Street! I know Fish Street well, but I can't place Tudor House/Hotel. I'm wondering if it was what is now called The Three Fishes Inn. I will take a look tomorrow.

I stayed there together with Stanley Matthews jun (son of the famous english soccer player, the father still played for England when he was over 40, the son was then english tennis champion, back in 1964, the year Churchill died).

the 'Tudor' must be the first or last house of that Fish street.

Three is my lucky number and this is WWAA 3, so it's my turn to post who I am.

My name is Nancy B. and I live in San Jose, CA. I'm not working now (by choice) so travel only three to four times a year. But I looooove to travel and would do more if only I had the money (wouldn't we all?). I've been married to my husband Karl-Heinz for 20 years this coming December. I lived in San Francisco in 1979 and met Heinz when he was just a bartender on the Royal Viking Sea. I used to visit the ship with friends when it would dock in San Francisco and Heinz and I got to know each other from those visits. He decided he wanted to try life on land once again and so he signed off in San Francisco. I didn't know this until I ran into him while attending a bon voyage party on the ship and saw him sitting in the bar having a drink. I knew he couldn't drink and work at the same time so asked him if he was off duty that evening. He told me he now lived in S.F. and was trying to find my phone number and I gave it to him never really expecting to hear from him again. A few days later, he called and said the house he was living in was being sold and could he come and stay at my apt. for a few days. He seemed so nice (and he's cute, too) that I said yes. Finally, after two weeks of wining and dining me, treating me better that any bloke ever treated me (those Austrians really can romance a girl!), he said he had to leave the country because his visa was expiring. He'd go back to Austria and try to come back in the country again. I didn't want to lose him, and I knew his friend got married to an American girl just to get a green card, so I offered to marry him with the understanding that in 2 years (which was the length of time required to stay married and keep your green card at that time)--in 2 years we'd get divorced. So after two weeks of really getting to know each other, we found ourselves in front of Judge Williamson at San Francisco City Hall getting married, with my old boyfriend as one of our witnesses. After about a month and a half of marriage, I was going off to work one morning (he was still looking) and he said, "You know, after two years I don't think I want to get divorced." I was so happy I said, "I don't either but didn't want to be the first to say it." So here we are 20 years later and still merrily rolling along. He's now a hotel general manager, and enjoys his work and I get involved some of the time in his projects.
I'm trying to figure out what I want to do next (work-wise) as staying home isn't as much fun as I thought it would be. Anyone with ideas of my getting a job somewhere in the travel industry...not a hotel, though. It's not as glamorous a life as one would think, but it does have its great perks.

Rudi: Wow! Sir Stanley Matthews' son? Cool!

I've been thinking a little more and did a bit of net searching. Tudor House is @ 2 Fish Street.

Check these links:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homep...htm#Shrewsbury
http://www.lonelyplanet.com.au/dest/...hics/bri12.htm

Gosh! What a long reply I made!
I got so wordy (comes from being born in Texas), that I forgot to thank BlondeBomber (who, just looking at the name, I thought was a woman) for urging us all to post who we are.
Thanks, too, to bokich for posting the link to the picture page. That's how I found out BlondeBomber is a man. What a friendly bunch of frequent flyers.

MarkB: thank you very much - great tudor houses and great memories.

Nanook!

That is a great story! Thank you for taking the time to write it!! "FlyerTalk" with you soon,

Ronald

Nanook, that's a 'storybook romance' story.....great! http://talk.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Nanook: What a heart warming story. Thank you for sharing.