I.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a brief visit
▪ The President flew to Argentina for a brief visit.
a surprise visit
▪ Environmental health inspectors made a surprise visit to the restaurant.
an inspection visit
▪ To date no inspection visit has been made.
an official visit/engagement etc (=one that relates to an important job or position)
▪ The Prime Minister was on an official visit to China.
fleeting visit
▪ Carol was paying a fleeting visit to Paris.
go to/visit the library
▪ I need to go to the library to return some books.
return visit
the visiting team (=the team who have travelled to their opponents’ sports field)
▪ The visiting team failed to score.
tourists visit a place
▪ About six million tourists visit the country each year.
visit a website
▪ You can visit the university’s website to get more information.
visit/go to a gallery
▪ The children visited the gallery on a school trip.
visiting card
visiting hours
visiting professor
worth a trip/visit etc
▪ The local museum is worth a visit.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
area
▪ For those without a car, there are daily coach tours to enable them to visit the surrounding areas.
▪ In the seven days since the Grand Forks mayoral election was held, I've visited five area communities.
▪ It was an unpleasant shock to discover Bentley Drummle there, but I could imagine his reason for visiting the area.
▪ Waverley the last sea-going paddle-steamer visits the area during the summer months.
▪ In what ways might each of these proposed developments reduce the pleasures of people who live in or visit the area?
▪ The hon. Gentleman invited me to visit the area.
▪ The president may visit the hardest-hit areas.
▪ What on map B, page 93, suggests that tourists visit that area?
city
▪ He and his three-piece combo will helm the nine-week tour, visiting 41 cities.
▪ We visited the ancient city of Petra and rode camels.
▪ Guests visit the city of Arequipa with the serene monastery of Santa Catalina.
▪ Another example of a Markov chain is the movement pattern of a business executive who visits four cities each week.
▪ Some 25 million tourists visited the city, 1 percent more than in 1994.
▪ Finally, they visited the city attorney.
country
▪ While Eva was at Usher, General Coutts visited the country.
▪ She had been visiting a country house to identify fabrics and advise on conservation.
▪ She visited fourteen countries, going to places which often no one else would visit.
▪ If Minton, however, visited Lehmann at his country cottage for Sunday lunch, he did so in Ricky's company.
▪ They discovered that you don't need to book into the Sheraton Hotel to visit a country.
▪ Since December 1989 President Havel as head of state had visited 23 countries and had officially received 140 foreign guests.
▪ Each operating region is visited once every three months and in between, he visits other countries to look at specific projects.
▪ After visiting 53 countries Denis was just one short.
doctor
▪ David decided not to visit the firm's doctor.
▪ We knew nothing of what had become of her since the June morning she and Dad had left to visit the doctor.
▪ The paper also advocated increased charges for the health service and suggested further savings, like charging patients to visit the doctor.
▪ Make a list of all the drugs and take it each time you visit a doctor or pharmacist.
▪ Since the underlying causes remained, the women visited their doctors with increasing frequency.
▪ Meanwhile, Agnes begins to rethink her decision while visiting the handsome doctor in his splendid Venetian mansion.
▪ Even before the blazer, I had very reluctantly decided that the time had come to visit my doctor.
▪ It reopened after students and instructors visited a doctor, and the building was disinfected.
family
▪ She would not visit her own family, except as a formality, and then as briefly as decency permitted.
▪ The postcards were usually of places we had visited as a family on those grueling summer vacations long ago.
▪ Later on, I ventured to express the hope that one day he would perhaps visit my family in Merstham.
▪ Ultimately, he hoped to visit family in Chicago, Atlanta and Alabama.
▪ A servant told her that Gilbey had visited the family estate two weeks earlier - with Lisa on his arm.
▪ She has been allowed out now to visit her family because she has just married off her only daughter.
▪ She's been visiting the Compton family who have been without their car for the last two months.
▪ Most often, entertainment is visiting family, attending their children's functions, camping, hiking and church.
friend
▪ Her friends came to visit in garish canoes, landed and partied and paddled home in the purple sunrise.
▪ When my friend Leshe and I visited the cave the guide showed us a large stone disc by an open flat area.
▪ Stephen Hart has a friend visiting him.
▪ Her parents sat up late to hear him, though when her New York friends visited they went early to bed.
▪ Life drifted aimlessly, until a friend came visiting with her Labrador Retriever.
▪ When a musician friend came to visit, I encouraged the boys to put on a concert for her.
home
▪ Alderley Edge side Icicals scored 186-6 when they visited Burnage, the home side managed 163-9 in reply.
▪ He had visited Ward at his home to inform him about the changes at Stark and Evans, and to reassure him.
▪ During my stay I visited schools, homes and families.
▪ They had met the teachers there last week when they visited the home of Ruben Dario.
▪ Sometimes the officer in charge is able to visit the client at home or in hospital.
▪ Miss Earhart had visited my home and while there, we decided to take a little jaunt.
▪ Only the minimum number of officers necessary will visit homes and parents will always be told what they are doing and why.
▪ How often did Fred Taylor visit the homes of friends from the shop or otherwise see them outside work hours?
hospital
▪ They hadn't been to visit Baby in hospital either.
▪ Next day before sunup she rose to visit the hospital.
▪ Many new school volunteers were apprehensive about visiting the hospital, anxieties fed by their fear of the unknown.
▪ He got them free toys and signed photographs of hockey stars; he found time to visit them in the hospital.
▪ Acheson visited Vandenberg in hospital on 21 January and the senator emphasised his support for Acheson's policy.
▪ Afterward, he visited the hospital, dropped by the Grill for breakfast, and headed to the office, walking.
▪ Celia and Danny visited the hospital infrequently.
▪ He said he did not know how long Tutu would visit the hospital.
house
▪ How unsettled and agitated he had been when they last had visited the Springall house.
▪ Just visit the White House, as you said you would, and heal those people.
▪ Now that Sarah was back at work Anne was not visiting the Redmond house as frequently, and she missed her visits there.
▪ However, he promised to visit White House during the next full moon.
▪ I had only visited the house - now a museum - once before.
▪ They later visited the house at least three times, neighbors and others say, but allowed the children to remain.
▪ Co., and visit owners of private houses, castles and gardens.
island
▪ This type of person continued to visit the island until the 1960s and the advent of air travel for all.
▪ Wildlife enthusiasts may prefer to visit the nature reserve islands of Oxney and Thanet.
▪ In 1695, he toured both the Inner and the Outer Hebrides, visiting many of the islands personally.
▪ For real life, visit Moila, the island of the ivory tower.
▪ We had come to Phang Nga to visit the limestone islands that rear in their hundreds from the bay.
▪ Le Monde of Aug. 21 reported that the Prime Minister was to visit the island shortly.
minister
▪ I understand that the Minister is planning to visit Raleigh Industries within the next 10 days.
museum
▪ We recently visited the Bomber Command museum at Hendon in north London, which was interesting from a nostalgic point of view.
▪ Want to visit the museum without leaving your home or office?
▪ After buying our souvenirs we had lunch and visited the Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood.
▪ Instead, I tried to visit as many other museums as I could in just a few hours.
▪ Next time you visit Fenland Aviation Museum, make a point of looking at the photograph albums pertaining to the Merlin's strip-down.
▪ Tourists will visit scores of new museums and monuments in neighborhoods now plagued by crime and decay.
▪ Glasgow is an excellent town for shopping, or perhaps you would care to visit the museums, including the Burrell Collection.
▪ As for public buildings, I still like visiting the Getty Museum.
official
▪ A Health and Safety Executive official visited the school later.
▪ State officials said the visiting police helped state agents detain 12 people and recuperate 12 stolen cars.
▪ On the eve of the Wallabies' departure, St George officials visited the Wallabies' hotel to seek his signature.
place
▪ They travelled by ferry, and among the places that they visited were Paris, Lille and Bruges.
▪ In many of the places that I visited, universal primary education is not yet established.
▪ And those worlds are wonderful places to visit, as millions of readers have learned.
▪ Closer to the Alba base at Dunstaffnage, however, there are still scores of places to visit.
▪ It's the sort of place priests visit all the time to hear the confessions.
▪ Your local computer supplier may be the first place to visit.
▪ Did anyone tell you that galleries were interesting places to visit, or even take you there?
school
▪ From the age of four my granda Hugh would visit the socialist Sunday school.
▪ The mobile museum visits schools, retirement homes, shopping centers and other venues.
▪ No inspector had visited the school for years.
▪ Brocklehurst visits the school to lecture the students on self-denial and the horrors of the lusts of the flesh.
▪ In the following week the students visit their school practice school.
▪ She loved visiting schools, talking with teachers, and helping the kids learn.
▪ During my stay I visited schools, homes and families.
▪ Today if you visit the school you notice only one difference.
site
▪ Near Lake Como there is even an annual cycle race that visits the sites mentioned in the book.
▪ The guide lectures on the history and culture of the city, and guests visit the most famous sites.
▪ Whilst the ride itself was uneventful, the reception we received as we visited each of the sites in turn was fantastic.
▪ What a natural extension it would be to take Brady to visit historical sites related to those dolls and their historical eras!
▪ As part of his job he is required to visit building sites.
▪ They can track how often you visit their site and what features you like best.
▪ They are visiting 6 sites, including Bishop's Castle, on their itinerary.
▪ Academy teachers visit the work sites once a week.
state
▪ Ready for action A big question mark hangs over the wisdom of visiting any Arab state at present, writes Mike Harper.
▪ Equally determined, Clinton has visited the state 23 times since being elected president.
▪ He lingers over that and I wait for him to ask why I was visiting a Communist state.
▪ In the first 28 days of September, Clinton spent 18 days on the campaign trail visiting 21 states.
▪ So far this year, he has visited at least 15 states.
▪ Over the same four-week period, Dole spent 21 days on the campaign trail visiting 20 states.
▪ Davis visited Kansas State last weekend and is expected to transfer.
■ VERB
allow
▪ The girls were allowed to visit him in the clinic.
▪ The mosque owns 9, 000 surrounding acres, including Plaza Blanca, which it allows the public to visit.
▪ The abbe had allowed me to visit friends.
▪ She has been allowed out now to visit her family because she has just married off her only daughter.
▪ I wasn't allowed to visit him at Croisset.
▪ That allows the recipient to visit the site by clicking on the icon instead of typing a lengthy address.
▪ Only archaeologists and scholars are allowed to visit now, in small, strictly limited groups.
▪ After the feud he refused to allow Jamila to visit her parents.
come
▪ Simon is overjoyed to see me, because no one has come to visit him since he stopped work.
▪ Ever since his parents came to visit for Christmas, Berg has started playing more aggressively.
▪ Why didn't they come and visit me, Mum and Dad?
▪ Young Cooper was a fool not to have come visiting on his own.
▪ Dorothy stood by him and came to visit him every day.
▪ You come visit me, cousin.
▪ I will tell Sarah you are coming to visit us on Wednesday afternoon.
▪ You can come back tomorrow during visiting hours.
plan
▪ I understand that the Minister is planning to visit Raleigh Industries within the next 10 days.
▪ The only satisfactory resolution is to plan future visits in order to complete a thorough sampling.
▪ He plans to visit some 100 towns and cities.
▪ They planned to visit the Rockies and fly on to Vancouver and then down into the States.
▪ Tam himself plans to visit Washington, he said.
▪ Originally he had planned to visit her in her apartment tomorrow.
▪ A friend and I are planning to visit Ireland this summer.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a flying visit
▪ Its inventor looks like he's on a flying visit to the twentieth century.
conjugal visit
▪ Even as early as the second stage of imprisonment conjugal visits are permitted every fifteen days.
courtesy visit/call
▪ To this end an unofficial courtesy visit was arranged and in August 1857 the Imperial couple came to Osborne.
domiciliary services/care/visits etc
▪ Developments in day care, the home help service and other domiciliary services were the currency of growth in these departments.
▪ Hence domiciliary visits by medical staff are an integral part of any specialist service.
▪ It supplements care by kin, but families continue to provide the bulk of domiciliary care.
▪ Last year only voluntary Welfare Officer alone, made over 102 domiciliary visits.
▪ Nevertheless, companies trading in domiciliary care are now beginning to multiply - some from a base in the residential sector.
▪ One of the principal domiciliary services is that of home helps.
▪ Success typically gives access to one existing service, such as domiciliary care, and rejects another, such as residential care.
▪ Traditionally the burden of long-term domiciliary care has fallen on women.
fact-finding trip/visit/mission etc
▪ At that stage, I did not make any connection between my irritability and my fact-finding missions.
▪ My older brother, who had a crush on my friend, often accompanied me on these fact-finding missions.
▪ Some pass the evening chatting to a Member of Parliament on a fact-finding mission.
▪ There is always a Member of Parliament on a fact-finding mission.
▪ There will also be in-depth discussion on Northern Ireland and the Mr Clinton's plan to send a fact-finding mission.
▪ There will be no fact-finding missions to any of the countries in question.
▪ This in turn means swotting up on the subject, going on fact-finding missions and meeting politicians and organisers.
▪ When on the fact-finding mission, my approach was a lot like yours, matter-of-fact.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A police officer will be visiting next week to give the children a talk on crime prevention.
▪ Every year thousands of tourists visit Turkey.
▪ For more information on how you can help, visit our website.
▪ He was the first traveller from the British Isles to visit Abyssinia.
▪ How much do you visit with your Mom and Dad while you're here?
▪ I visit my grandparents at least once a month.
▪ I don't see him that often, but I like to go and visit with him when I can.
▪ I went to visit her last winter and I really had a great time.
▪ Mom and Aunt Jo were sitting drinking coffee and visiting.
▪ Paul visited her every day when she was in hospital.
▪ She sent me some photographs of when she visited in December.
▪ So are you just visiting friends out here or something?
▪ The Ambassador last visited Hong Kong in 1982.
▪ The inspection team visited the plant twice in October.
▪ This afternoon the Queen will visit Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.
▪ Thousands of Americans visit Thailand each year.
▪ We've got some friends visiting from out of town this weekend.
▪ We spent the day visiting temples and other historic buildings.
▪ We won't be that far away - you'll be able to come and visit.
▪ You should visit the dentist twice a year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Anyone caught visiting the Bookman during these was automatically punished and he kept swapping them around to try and catch people out.
▪ Clubs are still invited to continue to visit the warehouse by the usual arranged bus trips.
▪ His management trademark is carrying index cards in his shirt pocket so that he can note mistakes while visiting Darden restaurants.
▪ Over the same four-week period, Dole spent 21 days on the campaign trail visiting 20 states.
▪ Tam himself plans to visit Washington, he said.
▪ They may wish to visit during the building stages.
▪ While Eva was at Usher, General Coutts visited the country.
II.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
brief
▪ And Miss Russell was only able to pay a brief visit.
▪ Some guides are indeed very brief, suggesting visits at breakneck speed where only a few items or rooms will be seen.
▪ Gandhi exclaimed at a meeting in Madras, on October 26, 1896, during a brief visit to his native land.
▪ On that first brief visit I made up my mind that one day I would return there.
▪ But fortunately at that moment her gynaecologist called in for a brief visit and Brian went off to the nursery.
▪ Promotion for Mr Wilson followed and after a brief visit to Naples to tie up affairs he returned to London.
▪ Our landing party managed to crowd a lot into their brief visit.
official
▪ Yesterday he was on an official visit home.
▪ In April he had paid an official visit to Washington along with Elena.
previous
▪ But the efficient-looking woman who had manned the reception desk on Folly's previous visit was not yet at her post.
▪ She had a history of frequent previous such visits with a response to breathing into a paper bag.
▪ Carolyn was dismayed; she had found the place very frightening on her previous visits.
▪ It is the same Salvor Hardin, who on his previous visit, ground our noses into the dust.
▪ It was hard to believe that they had lost on their 11 previous visits to Old Trafford.
▪ The fact he had been defeated on his five previous visits to the Cheltenham festival mattered not.
▪ Robbie remembered the crystal ball from his previous visit.
recent
▪ My most recent visit produced a sloughed skin threaded through the turf.
▪ But Sadat did not let those memories paralyze her, she recalled in a recent visit here.
▪ Five Days in Dubai An account of my recent visit to Dubai will be in my next diary.
▪ I was glad that that was recognised by Mr. Baker on his recent visit to the Soviet Union.
regular
▪ However, even this chore was quickly organised to accommodate regular visits to his beloved Scourie.
▪ So I may anticipate regular visits of inspection and solicitude while they wait for me to get a belly full of independence.
▪ Prisons are exempt from having regular visits from environmental health officers, but in April 1992 this Crown Immunity will be lifted.
▪ Sweet things should be an after-meal treat only. Regular visits to the dentist are still important.
▪ Your doctor and the hospital will arrange for you to make regular visits for antenatal care.
▪ She makes regular visits to Osteopath, Steven Davies in Cheltenham for treatment.
▪ Sir John pays regular visits to the traders to offer advice.
▪ Nicklaus made regular visits to oversee operations as the course was being carved out of the lush countryside.
return
▪ But when the Establishment booked a return visit for the comedian for 8 April 1963 it had problems.
▪ During his long walk home, he tried to figure out how to justify a return visit.
▪ The event was such a success that club members are very much looking forward to him making a return visit.
▪ Their elephant of a house was subordinate to no white mansion, and no Commonwealth Avenue calling cards urged return visits.
▪ Another statistic - 64 percent of Somerwest's 320,000 customers last year were paying a return visit.
▪ The crisis of the eighties occasions a return visit.
▪ There was some urgency because the return visit from Sochi was about to take place.
■ NOUN
state
▪ You can dish them out to visiting dignitaries at the end of a state visit.
▪ Clinton flies to Tokyo late Tuesday for a two-day state visit.
▪ I look forward to your state visit to Brigantia.
▪ She explained that she wore furs and her jewelry only when she traveled abroad with her husband on state visits.
▪ Sadat had ordered photographs of the Shah, left over from an earlier state visit, to be mounted along the route.
▪ This week was her first state visit here in 17 years.
■ VERB
arrange
▪ Before my marriage, I had to arrange a visit to the mikva.
▪ She helped to arrange a visit to some families who lived nearby.
▪ Normally it takes about six days to arrange a visit, even if you cable both ways.
▪ Joette, never one for passive visitors, has soon arranged my visits to coincide with the weekly pumpkin observations.
▪ I asked the probation department if they could arrange a visit as it didn't look like anyone else was going to.
▪ They had arranged all sorts of visits and expeditions for her, but she stayed mostly in Satipur because of Douglas.
▪ Of course, our various Ministries are happy to arrange visits to fine restaurants, the concert, the opera, the ballet.
begin
▪ It was not long before several families from Titagarh began making weekly visits to the mobile dispensary.
▪ The Pope began a week-long visit to the Holy Land.
▪ My story begins with a visit to a great friend of mine, John Blackwell.
follow
▪ The move follows a visit to the fire department in St Petersburg by a group of firemen from the county.
▪ Julie is admitted as an emergency on the request of her General Practitioner following a home visit.
include
▪ The Duke of Edinburgh would include a visit to her Medau group.
▪ The account of his stay in Naples includes a visit to Pompeii and the ascent of Vesuvius.
▪ Daily itineraries included visits to schools, universities, hospitals, businesses, concerts and historic sites.
▪ Hospital discharge procedures for elderly people often include a trial visit home and multidisciplinary conferences with community workers and hospital workers.
make
▪ The event was such a success that club members are very much looking forward to him making a return visit.
▪ Valparaiso is a fine university making its first visit to the tournament.
▪ I can catch a bus and make a visit.
▪ Last Monday, Clinton made his seventh visit to Ohio this year.
▪ Over the years I made the occasional visit to Cheltenham.
▪ I am now going to make a visit.
▪ He had made another visit as well, about which he had not told the King.
▪ It makes for a comprehensive visit.
pay
▪ And Miss Russell was only able to pay a brief visit.
▪ Helen, a woman in her late sixties, has a case of insomnia and pays her doctor a visit.
▪ No, Robert insisted, he could not, would not, pay a visit to such distant parts.
▪ She told me she left him the day after Lew Edwards and I paid a curious visit to idyllic Acra.
▪ Dolly was paying frequent visits to the house.
▪ Her brother paid a visit at her convent one day.
▪ Another statistic - 64 percent of Somerwest's 320,000 customers last year were paying a return visit.
plan
▪ We therefore advise anyone planning a visit to book early.
▪ Bob Dole of Kansas, plan numerous visits to the state in the months ahead.
▪ It is useful to plan a programme of visits, investigating software on one subject at a time.
▪ Valda and Varvara have planned the visit while walking back and forth across the school courtyard with books balanced on their heads.
▪ Record cards should be provided by management and salespeople encouraged to use them as part of the sales plan before each visit.
▪ For teachers and students there is a wealth of valuable research material and all the information required to plan an educational visit.
▪ I was annoyed at having to ask, to plan my visit around Oliver Ingraham.
receive
▪ She would receive visits only from her husband and Louisa.
▪ Family graves may occasionally receive a visit by a lone person shouldering a glum aura.
▪ On the day we finally got the job finished we received a visit from John Hall.
▪ She hardly ever received a visit, or even a letter.
▪ At that time you will receive a visit from a man.
▪ Taylor received their unexpected visits, notices arrived in the mail informing them that they were being taken to court.
▪ Undoubtedly you will receive a visit from the hospital chaplain.
▪ Most had never received visits from employers with job openings for high school graduates.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a flying visit
▪ Its inventor looks like he's on a flying visit to the twentieth century.
conjugal visit
▪ Even as early as the second stage of imprisonment conjugal visits are permitted every fifteen days.
courtesy visit/call
▪ To this end an unofficial courtesy visit was arranged and in August 1857 the Imperial couple came to Osborne.
domiciliary services/care/visits etc
▪ Developments in day care, the home help service and other domiciliary services were the currency of growth in these departments.
▪ Hence domiciliary visits by medical staff are an integral part of any specialist service.
▪ It supplements care by kin, but families continue to provide the bulk of domiciliary care.
▪ Last year only voluntary Welfare Officer alone, made over 102 domiciliary visits.
▪ Nevertheless, companies trading in domiciliary care are now beginning to multiply - some from a base in the residential sector.
▪ One of the principal domiciliary services is that of home helps.
▪ Success typically gives access to one existing service, such as domiciliary care, and rejects another, such as residential care.
▪ Traditionally the burden of long-term domiciliary care has fallen on women.
fact-finding trip/visit/mission etc
▪ At that stage, I did not make any connection between my irritability and my fact-finding missions.
▪ My older brother, who had a crush on my friend, often accompanied me on these fact-finding missions.
▪ Some pass the evening chatting to a Member of Parliament on a fact-finding mission.
▪ There is always a Member of Parliament on a fact-finding mission.
▪ There will also be in-depth discussion on Northern Ireland and the Mr Clinton's plan to send a fact-finding mission.
▪ There will be no fact-finding missions to any of the countries in question.
▪ This in turn means swotting up on the subject, going on fact-finding missions and meeting politicians and organisers.
▪ When on the fact-finding mission, my approach was a lot like yours, matter-of-fact.
pay (sb) a call/visit
▪ Another out-of-town visitor paid a call last month.
▪ Having met his hero one evening at a small gathering, he was invited to pay a call the following week.
▪ I was more than once surprised to see men going into those rooms, paying visits to the legless men.
▪ Latimer is living apart from people, divorced even from religious faith by his visions, when Charles Meunier pays a visit.
▪ No, Robert insisted, he could not, would not, pay a visit to such distant parts.
▪ The Marshal decided it was time to pay a visit to Headquarters.
▪ Then one day, just for old times' sake, I paid a visit to Winston Street.
▪ They were scheduled to pay a visit to another model resettlement village that morning - their last official tour.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It was my first visit to my wife's parents' house.
▪ Polly and I had a nice long visit.
▪ She took the whole class out there for a visit.
▪ The girls were quite excited because they were expecting a visit from their parents.
▪ The president will make a brief visit to Britain before returning home.
▪ The Queen will pay a state visit to China later this year.
▪ The Senator's visit to the Military Academy at Andover was a great success.
▪ We're all looking forward to your visit.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At each visit they will feel your abdomen, and find out how high the top of the womb has risen.
▪ During the visit a glimpse of the future Garratt type locomotive was obtained.
▪ He doesn't see or talk to anyone from the works this visit.
▪ Members of the economic development and planning subcommittee voted to refuse planning permission after a site visit yesterday.
▪ Reading face five meetings in four days over Easter, starting with a Gold Cup visit to Poole this afternoon.
▪ The Christmas visits are seen as part of the long recovery process after the accident.
▪ Two days before the President's visit they began to dress the mast like a Christmas tree.