Today was a journey to visit an estate called Croome. It was only about 15 miles away but took around 45 minutes to get there! It just cracks us up about the length of time these journeys take. However, the absolute funniest thing was this small village sign we passed on the way--see the photo. Does America have these signs I wonder?? We are still chuckling over it. Anyway, the estate was originally built several hundred years ago, but remodeled in the 1700's by...

We drove over to Stratford upon Avon and found a Tourist Information office. We were able to buy Hop on Hop Off Bus tickets and caught the next bus. There's not a whole lot really exciting to see there, but it is a charming English town and we enjoyed riding around without navigating or driving. The town is the birthplace of William Shakespeare and the entire place is built upon this. His childhood home, his wife's childhood home, and several other buildings are ...

Wow, where does the time go?? I feel like I just blogged and it's been three days already! So here's a recap of our time in Cheltenham so far. For our first outing, we decided to visit a Roman Villa in Chedworth. This involved numerous back roads but they are a smidge better here than Cornwall. We found the place, in the middle of nowhere I might add, and it turned out to be ruins that were accidentally discovered while some farmers were planting crops. They are...

We bade farewell to Pippa, and left our cosy cottage in Coverack, heading for Cheltenham. It's located in the Cotswolds, which is another region of England. We were watching the movie, We Bought a Zoo on tv the other night, and I was wondering where the actual place was--turns out, only 90 miles from Coverack and on the way to Cheltenham! So we decided to pay it a visit. Armed with a brand new Atlas and my phone GPS, I managed to get us there on major roads, wi...

For our last day in Coverack, we decided to see if we could find this hidden sculpture park that our hostess had told us about several days ago. Both of us were pretty worn out from all the hiking we've been doing, not to mention the driving to get where we are going. It's a constant state of alert, and just wears you out! So staying local sounded good to us. We drove to the main part of Coverack and managed to find a spot to park. We asked a local store owner f...