Settled into the hotel OK last night. We’re now just getting our head around the price of things over here, they are HIGH! At breakfast (price included with the room) the first item on the menu was a “Full English”, eggs, bacon, sausage potatoes, mushrooms, tomato and black pudding. I forwent the black pudding, you can google it if you want, it’s too gross to describe here!! After the cruise, I was determined to cut down on size of breakfast, but………
After breakfast Lyn did a bit of route planning and off we went. The goal today was to meet a school friend of mine who I have known on and off for about 67 years! Again we toured the back roads to get there and back. We met up in a town called Witney. The Cotswolds towns are a mega tourist attraction evidently, however we survived and met up with Barbara.
As usual I will be lazy and dump a whole load of pictures, may be more interesting to those across the pond. Our first stop was Bourton-on-the-Water
From there we drove onto Whitney, which was a bit of a zoo. They were digging up the high street and there seemed to be a market in progress as well. There were cars and tourists everywhere. The only thing lacking were parking spaces. Many years ago when we lived in the UK it was no problem parking the car in a space only a few feet longer than the car, now I need about 3 car lengths of space to park!! Below are some shots of Whitney.
As you can see in the last picture, they have a strange habit of decorating mail boxes!
After a very pleasant lunch with Barbara we headed back to the car, which had exceeded its allotted parking time by 30 minutes (without penalty), and went wandering along some more back roads until we passed through the village of Churchill where we stopped for a wander. Churchill was typical of many of the villages in the area. Again more photos.
Above is the style of wall found around the area, it is used to delineate boundaries, both private properties and large fields.
Tomorrow will be more touring.
SO lovely to see you both yesterday and catch up. Sorry about the roadworks in Witney – it wasn’t looking it’s best.
Postbox toppers are a big thing over here!