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England #27 - the Wrap Up
(Saturday September 21, 2024) It was so sad to have to leave England, and now it’s sad to finish this because it means…it’s really over! Of course it was really over seven months ago. Whic...
England #26- Sudeley Castle
(Friday September 29, 2025) And it’s our…last day!!! We couldn’t believe how fast the trip flew by, even though we were in England for two weeks! And I for one was not ready to go home. I w...
England #25- magical Avebury
(Wednesday & Thursday, September 18 & 19 2024) We went to Avebury twice while in Wiltshire - first on Wednesday afternoon after leaving Swindon and before checking in to our All Canni...
England #24 - The Barge and the Crop Circle Visitor Center
((Wednesday & Thursday, September 18 & 19 2024) I loooove The Barge Inn. I may be just a tad obsessed with it. Way back in 2010, when Kim and I made our first trip to England, we spen...
England #23- All Cannings overnighter
(Wednesday September 18, 2024) After our fun visit to Swindon, we headed onwards to Avebury. Since we went to Avebury twice on this Wiltshire side trip I’m going to give it its very own entry,...
England #22 - Swindon Sidetrip
(Wednesday September 18, 2024) And so onwards we fly to Wednesday, as shockingly enough I actually am getting a bunch of these posts done. We had planned to go to Wiltshire at some point durin...
England #21 - Teeny Bourton-on-the-Water
(Tuesday September 17, 2025) Back to Bourton-on-the-Water for the last piece of this very drawn out day! We did more walking around, had a beer outside at The Kingsbridge pub, and then went t...
England #20 - Chedworth trails
(Tuesday September 17, 2025) I am trying really REALLY hard to get this done, so there will be a flurry of entries in the next few days. Well, there will be a flurry if I actually succeed in m...
England #19 - Chedworth Roman Villa
(Tuesday September 17, 2025) Tuesday was another very full day although with a lot less driving, which was a welcome change. We went to the ruins of a Roman villa, and then to Bourton-on-the-...
England #18 - Chedworth Walks
(Various days between Sept 14-20 2024) We did a lot of walking around our Airbnb neighborhood, so I’m going to give gorgeous Chedworth its own separate entry. We’d go touring during the d...
England #17 - the Slaughters & Stow-on-the-Wold at last;
(Monday September 16 2025) Although the Slaughters sound quite gruesome, “slaughter” just means “muddy place” in Old English. Well, now I’m looking at Lower Slaughter’s Wikipedia page, it sa...
England #16 - The Motoring Museum
(Monday September 16, 2024) Why yes, I am stretching Monday over waaaay too many entries! That’s because I have waaaay too many pictures. This entry isn’t even going to include The Slaughters....
England #15 - Sherborne and the Motoring Museum, almost
(Monday September 16, 2024) We were all over the place on Monday: Sherborne, Upper and Lower Slaughter, Burton-on-the-Water again, and Stow-on-the-Wold. They are all in fairly close proxi...
England #14 - Bourton-on-the-Water and Birdland
(Sunday September 15, 2024) After Bibury, we headed on to Bourton-on-the-Water, which was about 15 miles up the Fosse Way/A429. The Fosse Way is an ancient Roman road built during the first ...
England #13 - Bibury, Most Photographed Village in England
(Sunday September 15, 2024) We watched a whole lot of YouTube videos before our England trip — mostly of the Lake District since that’s where we thought we were going, but the extra week afte...
England #12: We Head Off For the Cotswolds
(Saturday September 14 2024) I’ve been !!!retired for a week!!! but oddly enough I don’t seem to have finished my England entries yet. Or finished my novel. Or made a fortune with my j...
England #11: Glastonbury Day 2- Ascending the Tor
(Friday September 13, 2024) I left us all hanging in the last entry as I enjoyed a stout and some people-watching at the George & Pilgrams while waiting on Kim to get done with her past li...
England #10: Glastonbury Day 2 -the Abbey & Past Lives
(Friday September 13, 2024) Friday was our final day in the Bath/Somerset area before heading to the Cotswolds. We were sad to be nearly done with our first week, but quite excited about the ...
England #9: Last Bath Day Part 2
(Thursday September 12, 2024) I see by my travel journal that the first thing we did after touring the Bath Abbey was…get more coffee! Hahahhahhaha!!! YES we had THREE coffee stops that day. ...
England #8: The Second (and final) Bath Day
(Thursday September 12 2024) This was a full yet low-key day, involving minimal driving and zero getting lost, which was pretty amazing. We discovered a community center called The Hub very clo...
England #7 - More Cheddar, with Caves and Gorge
(Wednesday, September 11 2024) Continuing from the last entry: After wandering around the village area of the Cheddar Gorge, we toured Gouge’s Cave. It’s a very interesting cavern, full o...
England #6 - Cheddar Time
(Wednesday September 11 2024) I would like to say that we set off bright and early for Cheddar Gorge, but we did not. We had planned to spend Wednesday in Bath again, and to stay till after d...
England #5 - A Day in Glastonbury; Ancient Isle of Avalon
(Tuesday, September 10, 2024) Day 3, and we are off to Glastonbury! I love Glastonbury - we’ve gone there on three out of our four trips to England. We only missed the one when Baker B...
England #4 -second half of the first day in Bath
(Monday September 9, 2024, Part 2) Which of course is not confusing at all! I’m trying to force my entries to make sense time-wise but I’m sure they won’t, as has been the case with a...
England #3- Spending the day in lovely Bath
(Monday September 9, 2024) After all the trials we experienced in getting to England and then getting to Bath (and we were very very excited despite the assorted difficulties - once we did f...
