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Highlights of the Year 2001
A difficult and sad year as Jean's mother
died and Jean was ill herself for several months through Summer and
Autumn. We did manage to do a lot of good things as well, though.
| In January Rhys went to the USA for a
work 'Academy' where a lot of the managers from his firm got together to
go over a new marketing strategy. This work is at the leading
edge of ways in which companies try to market their products to their
customers, and is gaining ground.
He stayed and worked at the very pink Don Cesar resort hotel
at St Pete's Beach, Florida, near Tampa. Work's hell isn't
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Despite the above good stuff, Rhys' work in Bristol came to an end in
June when the American advertising market downturn damaged the firm and it had
to reduce size . We decided to keep our flat in Bristol, but eventually let it out, so we now have a tenant.
Jean continued at Knutsford in on-line banking.
Jennie and
Ian got a new house in Diggle - in "Last of the Summer Wine"
country - which they've leapt into doing up, and they got a new car, a
Cappuccino. David moved to Windsor and is also doing up his house.
We had a holiday in Corsica, staying at
Calvi at a very pleasant hotel with a choice of several swimming pools.
The hotel was high up above the town so the view from our pool (middle picture
below) was pretty good. Click on the pictures for full size versions.
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Later we went for a long weekend to Le Touquet and the Flanders area of Northern
France - the area of the Somme battles of WW1. We were doing some family
history research out there and managed to find memorials with the names of two
relatives at Thiepval, (See the
family history page for details and a
picture of the memorial). We stayed in Le Touquet at the Westminster Hotel
- very nice, but a bit too much English spoken for our liking! Here is
Rhys on the hotel's terrace having a beer after a strenuous afternoon stroll!
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| Jean had a day out
on the winning BT Global Challenge yacht, LG Flatron, in the Solent in September
(despite being very ill!) This was
a corporate day that a company had taken for clients and staff. Jean
says she enjoyed it immensely, despite illness, though the yacht was very different than the
cruising boats we usually sail - LG Flatron is a 72ft real racing machine.
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| Jean and
colleague Bev on board |
The weather wasn't quite like this on Jean's
sailing day!
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Jean -
seems to be enjoying herself
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