Offerings

Traff brought this back for me from Leamington spa.
It's a very romantic gesture.

Bbq

Lacock

Our final historical visit of the week: Lacock Abbey to see Snape's Dungeon.

We also saw the stately rooms and the grounds but primarily this was a Harry Potter Adventure.

We arrived before the National Trust sp we geocached, went to the ling barn and visited the church in the village.
The church is impressive.

They advise you to photograph the ceilings so that you can see the colours and decorations.

Cycle disaster/ Lydiard park

Witcombe roman villa

Certainly one of Gloucestershires best kept secrets!
This was a complete horror to find but worth all the tiny country roads. We had lunch on the hillside looking at the view over Gloucester.
The Villa is really well preserved. I was surprised how much of it has survived.
There are also mosaics from the bath house, but they're locked away unless there's someone to supervise.

We also found a really interesting geocache so this was a good day out!

Goodrich castle

Tats and I drove out to Goodrich castle in Herefordshire.
It's actually much more impressive than the pictures can show- so much history!
And so many terrifyingly narrow flights of stairs!

Walking to Cotewater park

Tats and I walked 14 miles today.
My feet are ded.
We walked to old town, found a cache then town gardens, looked for a missing cache, then walked along the old railway line to lake park.
After that we followed signs to cote water and walked all around the park. We also found another cache.

We got the bus back, and bought bacon stir fry bits and infamous polish shop 'sponges' for pudding.
We ate so much food. Although it was well earned. We did more than 30,000 steps.

Now for an evening of Natsume.

Feets

Geocaching with Ray and Tats

Tats arrived yesterday for her minibreak in glorious wiltshire.
We mooched around in the afternoon- once we'd collected the bike from the repair place for future adventures- and once Ray came home we made dinner plans.
Ray found a 40% off voucher for prezzos online, so we made our decision.
We walked a super long route to the restaurant in order to find a few caches. We found 4 on the way to dinner!
They were all pretty tiny, especially the green one. The brick one was my first experience of a 'plain sight' cache. It's awesome!
Genuinely if we hadn't known it was there we'd never have found it!

The Isle of Wight- day 2

Today has been another busy one.

We started off early and made it to Osbourne house for opening.
We walked down to the beach where we saw a tanker headed for Portsmouth. They must be really constrained by the tides as it was pretty close to the island. We had coffee and cake and then we walked the grounds and gardens. Saw the swiss cottage and the museum.

Rain was forecast for one so we went into the house to avoid the weather.

The house was really pretty and it was really quiet. So very enjoyable.

After the house we went to the Castle, we walked on the wall and saw the views, including the pepper pot which is a lighthouse and was built too far from the sea.