The Big Sleep Hotel Cheltenham

... share my tastings I will be missing :) My back is already feeling better than yesterday and I expect to feel a lot better tomorrow and to be able to enjoy my trip again. Our second presentation was last night and went very well. Everyone seemed to enjoy it and are all still planning to see it again in Torquay at the district conference.

... 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 ...

... sunlight. The photo opportunity had arrived. I took it. So what of the village of Dowdeswell? There is both Dowdeswell and Upper Dowdeswell and the two are separated by about half a mile. Upper Dowdeswell has a manor house, hidden from view, and several other houses. Dowdeswell has Dowdeswell House, a priory and several other houses. All the houses are constructed of stone. Half are old, say 16th century and half are brand new but in the same style. This is one ...

... 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 ...