After breakfast we checked out of the hotel where we payed the release fee so that the room bear could come home with us. He was named after the room we stayed in (Henry Hanks). We then made our way to the market town, Stow-on-the-Wold where we had a quiet hour mooching around the shops.
When we had finished we continued on our journey, stopping at Hanbury Hall for lunch and the gardens. The lunch was delicious and the gardens were challenging. The recent heavy rain falls had made some of the routes impossible and some creative thinking to navigate our way around the garden.
9th June 2009
They look to be fabulous gardens
The top photo is the hotel garden, which is right next to the Abbey House Gardens. The other two photos are Hanbury Hall. Both are nice in different ways
Ragged nature and man-made and planned.
Variety is the spice of life
This duckling will make its way. : )
He is a little cutie and Mum wasn’t to far away. But there was no way she was waiting for him to catch up
i like the little fella on his flat bottomed “craft”, CP. and a nice view of those gardens through the brick walls.
I like that view of the gardens and the baby moorhen was really cute
Look how gorgeous those gardens are!
I enjoyed them both
It’s nice how you’ve added some foreground colour to the first shot.
It was all about the garden framing the hotel in the background.