Queens Hotel Cheltenham

Well as you probably know the actual travelling part of my trip went a bit wrong when I got stuck in Antigua for a while, but eventually escaped her clutches and have now made it back to the UK, so I thought I'd better round this blog up. Before leaving Guatemala I did actually mange to see parts that weren't Antigua - a quick trip took me to the Mayan ruins of Quirigua, the Caribbean coastal town of Livingston, a boat trip down the Rio Dulce and a visit ...

... live and work. It overlooks the plains where the Civil War was fought and was built after the war in 1750. It had a lovely lounge in which we had a drink and then drove back and did our packing.







We walked around to the local for a drink by the fire and then ordered Thai food.

... on doing the 4 hour walk (9 miles) but due to the bad directions ended up getting lost, going to village that wasn't even on our map and did the 2 hour walk in 3-1/2 hours and walked about 10 miles. We started off uphill to the top of Dover Hill where snow totally covered the ...

... back to the river. We went and did a brass rubbing for 7 pounds 50p ($17) of the Earl of Warwick from 1406. We were so cold when we got home that I had to put my feet on the central heating pipes for ages. Called Lavinia in London and arranged to have dinner Monday night. Went to the local for a drink and then home for Coq au Vin.

... another pretty little Cotswold village with a stream, pub and a trout farm. We had a map with directions and they were very bad directions, because we got lost from box 1 and ended up doing the walk back to front and totally wrong sections. It snowed the whole time and was wet snow so after a couple of ...

... and river and beautiful country on the other. It was started in 1068 by William the Conqueror. It was owned until 1978 by the Earls of Warwick and then bought the Tussaud Group. We walked over the drawbridge and explored first in the towers of the Gatehouse and Barbican. They had 2 port cullis to lower to keep people out and if they trapped people ...

... Stow-on-the-Wold and saw the Royalist pub 976AD – oldest pub in England and then to Upper Slaughter and Lower Slaughter – 2 lovely little villages around a stream and then on to Broadway.










Went out to dinner at Margaret’s in the village of Radway. She lives in the old school house next to the church

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. Had yummy meal of fish and black forest cake. Flew 7 hours to Munich and only had 30 mins from when the plane landed till the next one left. We made it but discovered when we got to London, that our luggage hadn't. Took 1-1/2 hours to London – got there 2.10 pm. It was 4 hours behind Dubai. Stephen and Michele were there waiting with our coats and took us to nearby Windsor ...

... feeling very bad), The day I spoke to Currys to try and get my Ipod replaced (My battery lasts 7 hours against and advertised battery life of 14 hours, I was trying to get a replacement sent to me in Bettysbaai, I've never been as angry on the phone in my entire life. Of course the real problem in not Currys poor customer service but poor quality Apple products, they exist to put form before function, I went against my better ...

... really beautiful houses here, many still with thatched roofs. (BevNote: Apparently it is law that, if you purchase a home with a thatched roof, you must replace it, when needed, with another thatched roof.) The weather has been mild and a bit damp. The gardens here are fantastic. Supposedly, they are kept the same as they were ...