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Out and About in Bath

10 Comments CherryPie on Dec 22nd 2020

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Stanton Manor Garden

4 Comments CherryPie on Dec 10th 2020

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Castle Combe is a quintessentially English village often named as the ‘prettiest village in England.’ The village sits in the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in north west Wiltshire.
Castle Combe has featured regularly as a film location, most recently in The Wolf Man, Stardust and Stephen Spielberg’s War Horse. It was also used in [...]

20 Comments CherryPie on Dec 3rd 2020

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Stanton Manor – Day Three

We packed our bags and raided the breakfast boxes for items to save for another day then checked out. We had another in-car picnic breakfast before heading off to Berkeley Castle for which we had pre-booked tickets. We arrived before the castle gates opened so on arrival we walked around the Yurt café walled garden [...]

8 Comments CherryPie on Sep 29th 2020

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Stanton Manor – Day Two

Drifting in and out of my dream, I heard an alarm going off. As I came to I reached out for my glasses. Where were they? I couldn’t place my hand on them in the usual place. I had the same difficulty with the light switch so I sat up in order to put my [...]

8 Comments CherryPie on Sep 28th 2020

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Stanton Manor – Day One

We set off in good time despite having had an impromptu family visit the day before. The get together with my brother and nephews was wonderful but it made packing our bags a little bit rushed.
We picked mum up before heading to Bourton-on-the-Water for lunch. The town seemed busier than I have ever seen it [...]

6 Comments CherryPie on Sep 24th 2020

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