No doubt about it - we are back in the heart of England, staying in the middle of the Cotswolds with the typical villages, pub, lanes, farms and georgeous scenery.
Said farewell to the Thomsons by about 9.30 after a terrific breakfast cooked by Paul and set off East to the Midlands via such wonderfully English places such as Ross-on-Wye, Tewkesbury, Stow-on-the-Wold, and Bourton-on-Water where we will begin our cycles over the next couple of days.
Great drive across - got slightly trapped in Ross but found our way out. We are driving Jenny's Skoda (Geoff take note) which is lovely to drive and effortless on the highway. Stopped in Tewkesbury where we found a lovely little cafe for cakes and REALLY GOOD flat white. There is a picture on facebook I took especially for Steve Case - shows a possible future use for the Triumph Steve - in the window of the local funeral director!
Also stopped in beautiful Stow etc again a great place to wander around - found a great market to do some shopping.
Through the lanes into Great rissington which could not be more typical "Cotswolds" if it tried. We went to the harvest festival service at the local church - very interesting with no recognition of visitors or anything - some looked like characters straight out of The Vicar of Dibley!! It was a bit off-putting.Bell ringers actually rang the bells from the centre of the church and they had a choir, ancient organist but actully sounded qiute good.
Trivia: The church in Stow is only 800 years old and replaced one which stood on the same site for the previous 200 years!!
Cap report: why ask????
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