If I didn't post a blog this morning, you might think we were caught up in the Eifel Tower incident today. No not us. We did suspect that something had happened as the security around the senate building in the Luxemburg Gardens was extreme. Yesterday (Saturday) started as a horror. Left CC at 6.40 am, drove from Chipping Campden to Heathrow without incident. Even located a service station close to our Avis depot so we could fill the tank without stress. B...

We've just returned home at 5.00pm from our last afternoon in the Cotswolds. We've waited all week for some sunny weather and we almost got it. We had begun to think that we would need to stay here for three months from the beginning of June if we wanted to experience a week of summer. Not exactly summer by our standards, as 20c with cloud and sunny patches was the best we have experience today. It was however a day when we got to see the Cotswolds from high ...

The things we do to continue to bring you some summer delights from the UK to brighten your cold winter gloom in Aus. We planned on a morning at Blenheim Palace and the afternoon in Oxford. The weather forecast was for occasional showers, primarily around 3.00pm and rain at 4.00 pm. Should be plenty of time to explore the Capability Brown gardens. We set off on the 40min drive to Woodstock, a pretty village beside the Palace, which we also planned on explorin...

We spent all of Thursday in "Stratford upon Avon" You might remember that we visited Bradford on Avon last week. There are lots of towns up around the Cotswolds that are on the River Avon. Occasionally they are named "…. On Avon". Stratford isn't "on" it's "upon." "Upon" is the formal term for "on". There was more traffic entering this town than any other we have visited so far. When a parking spot appeared, we immediately dived right in, and it turned out...

I set out at 8.00 am to photograph my favourite Cotswold town before it woke up and any tourists arrived. It's more of a working town that most of the others on the A429 and A424, which are tourist hotspots. It also doesn't appear to receive any coaches, not that I can see anywhere they could park. It was busy on the weekend, however now during the working week, pretty quiet with only the occasional tourist walking the streets. At 8.00, even very few locals on ...