After breakfast we checked out of our hotel and drove to Stourhead House & Gardens in glorious sunshine. We signed in at the National Trust reception area before heading through to the house and gardens. It was around 20 years since our previous visit and it was our first visit to the house, which contains [...]
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2 Comments CherryPie on Jun 28th 2021
After breakfast we headed to Stonehenge for which we had pre-booked tickets, arriving earlier than our ticket time but were able to go in due to the low number of visitors. I have never seen Stonehenge’s car park so quiet.
We booked in and collected our ticket to visit the stones (most of the site is [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Jun 26th 2021
Our destination for the day of our anniversary was Forde Abbey, a place that we had not visited before. Our journey there was quirky – there were many sudden junctions and eroded markings and, for some reason, the SatNav has changed the way it navigates saying bear left/right when the junction is a left/right turn [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Jun 24th 2021
We awoke to glorious sunshine and made our way down to the breakfast room. I was pleasantly surprised to find that some items were available to select from the buffet rather than to order. This included a fresh fruit salad served in a sealed Kilner jar. The fresh fruit option is one of my favourite [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jun 23rd 2021
We set off on our journey in glorious sunshine; planning to have lunch on the way. The SatNav was advising an hour’s delay on the motorway so we decided to take a detour which led us to a lovely café that we have previously visited, The Café Craycombe at Fladbury in the Vale of Evesham.
We [...]
7 Comments CherryPie on Jun 19th 2021
No man can cross the same river twice because neither the man nor the river are the same.
Heraclitus
8 Comments CherryPie on Jun 14th 2021
