Friday 8th - 11th November
En-route, we passed through Savernake Forest near Marlborough. Such lovely colours on the trees an d surprise, we drove straight through Marlborough without stopping! That hasn't been achieved for a long, long time. The road works have finally finished. (spoke too soon)
We've been here before and we are parked in
the same spot. Hard standing but not very level. This time, however, we managed to get up on a ramp (previously it hadn't made a difference then we
found out it was broken!). I think this is the most level we have ever been.
Muddy shoes though as I couldn't see where I
was walking on the field while we were parking up and there are lots of mole hills!
Saturday
Lazy start to the day then a walk around the
village after breakfast. It's a lovely Cotswold village but no shops and only
a church and 1 pub that is sporadically open. The church has some wonderful
tapestry kneelers.
Maria and Adrian arrived around lunchtime. Had a cuppa and catch-up then went for a walk along Sabrina Way then over the fields, back into the village and of course the village pub, The Plough. We did partake
and sat by the log burner. It was lovely and toasty. Otis, the manager told us they had stopped
doing food partly due to the increase of national insurance they have to pay
for their staff. They now run it as a B&B and are open as a pub on Fridays
and Saturdays. They plan to to the odd evening function in the future, which
may be worth while keeping an eye out for.
The walk back was in the dark so it was lucky that we'd taken torches. M&A had bought some antipasti to have before our spag bol. Food
was delish and we had lots of talk and laughs to accompany it. A game of The
Great Game of Britain, where Mike won, and the evening was complete. It had
been a really nice day.
Sunday
M&A made bacon butties and used cheese
topped rolls which made a nice change. I
must admit sitting in their campervan made me realise just how much room we do
have in ours.
M&A and I went over to the church to see if
there was a service not really expecting anything as it was so quiet but when
we opened the door we saw the congregation.
We piled into the pew at the back of the church, Peggy the dog included.
The vicar started his sermon. On reflection, I think we joined the service just
at the point on the 2 minute silence. Oops. We apologised to the vicar at the
end and he said at least we came.
M&A then left for home. I went for a walk
that we found on the OS app. It was around 2.5km but as I was nearing the end
of it I felt I wanted to continue so did the loop we did yesterday along the
Sabrina Way - no stopping at the pub though this time.
Chill time in the afternoon, dinner and chat
and bed. Heard the owl again.
Monday
After breakfast, we set off to visit my Auntie Joan in Prestbury near Cheltenham. A little hairy driving in Cheltenham and the parking was along the road which was quite busy. Anyway, we managed to spend about an hour there then headed back home. I must remember I haven't done any cleaning this time (I usually do it before we leave a site)
Lovely relaxing and walking time away.
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