Pictures from the Hike to the Barrow

I'm pretty snap happy when it comes to photographs- as a result, unless it's the odd selfie- you don't find many pictures of me doing anything.
I AM the photographer!

So, I'm pleased to be able to post photographic evidence of me, hiking and getting out of the burial barrow (goodbye dignity!) Thanks to may for the photos. :)

Bbq and fire

For our last night we sat out until it was really dark toasting marshmallows and eating them with strawberries.
We roasted the strawberries too but it made,them taste like jam.

The hike to the long barrow via prema arts centre

We decided to go for a hike to see the  local village. Following the Neolithic Cotswold way.
It's a footpath that is part of the route that links all the standing stones in the country and was walked by the stone age people making pilgrimage for the solstice festivals.
There are loads of burial barrows along the route as it the Neolithic people liked to take their ancestors remains with them to celebrate.
It's a well established route and it links lots of places so continued to be used during the iron and bronze ages, and by the romans.
Lots of good history.

We walked to the village and accidentally trespassed through a manor house garden. Stopped off at the arts centre for wees and directions then.on up the hill to the iron age fort and the long barrow.you can go inside it!
Well worth the walk.

We went to prema for a late lunch of roasted vegetables and flat bread. Then back to the campsite to mooch.

Geodesic dome camping

If this isn't fancy camping then.I don't know what is:

https://www.airbnb.co.uk/rooms/12862370

Clearwater caves & the secret woods

May and I went on a bit of a camping road trip this week.
On Monday we went to clearwell caves, which is an ore mine with beautiful clear pools of water as well as some interesting stalactites and stalagmites made from calcium deposits.

After the caves we had a yummy cream tea and then walked around the secret woods.
They had some rather interesting fairies.
Barbie and ken.
Heehee.
They also had some replica round houses which were cool. And a composting toilet that was an experience.

Getting to the caves was a bit of a nightmare as we got lost and drove into wales 3 times. Thankfully we only had to pay the toll once. Getting to the campsite was a lot easier!

London pack holiday day 3

Today we went to see the cutty sark, Greenwich meridian line and took the  thames clipper up to parliament.  We made it back to Victoria for 2.30 to collect our luggage on time too!

We met scouts from Belgium and from Switzerland too- they're in London on an international Camp.
Looks like everyone was in London!

London Pack holiday Day 2

We decided to have a more chilled out day- We went to the Natural History museum, then had lunch in Hyde park.
We watched the Gorilla Circus rehearsals  in the park, and then we went to the princess Diana memorial play ground- which is a huge pirate ship surrounded by sand, and swings and other things to play on.
we could honestly have stayed there all day.
The sun was out, it was awesome.

In the evening we had dominoes pizza for dinner  and the girls watched the first  Harry potter potter movie.
Sunburn all round.

London Pack Holiday Day 1

We met Tats and Kelly and allll the Brownies ate Kings cross at 10am- This would have been soooo much easier if we still lived on the east of the country. This was pretty epic day.
We left the house at 6:30am so I was ready for bed by lunchtime.

We went to GGHQ in Victoria to drop off our luggage and eat our lunch then we went on a sight seeing walking tour.
We say the pelicans in the park! they like it on the rock by the duck keepers cottage if you're looking for them.
We went to the place, the mall, Green park, Parliament and big ben, number 10 then on to Trafalgar square.
20,000 steps! We're all super fit now.

Followed by an extremely well earned dinner in Frankie and Bennies.
Then back to make our camp beds up, eat cookies and drink tea.

Sleep was pretty thin on the ground, between the girls being way too excited to sleep and the underground running under the building it was "patchy at best" (Kelly's fitbit said she'd had 1 hour of REM sleep. I think even that was pretty generous!). Topped off by the cleaner arriving to hoover above us at 5am. At which point I got up and gave up on sleeping.

New pjs for pack holiday

Perfect, no?