The Old Forge
Check rates and availability for this hotel
Find the best prices for The Old Forge from Booking.com.
Travel Blogs from Compton Abbas
Cotswolds
Had some cereal and pain au chocolat from the supermarket next door before we left for The Slaughters, two towns in the Cotswolds. As may have been mentioned before, this area is famous for its picturesque, quintessential English villages, complete with village churches and babbling brooks running through them. Upper and Lower Slaughters were no exception (two different towns). Photo from each are included. They were ...
Bourton on the Water
Well today we ventured off to the popular tourist attraction of Bourton on the Water.......a very popular village for tourists to go and explore the array of gift stores and coffee shops that line the stream that flows through the middle of the ...
Oxford, Stow-on-the-Wold
Woke up late and had a full breakfast at the YHA. Did a self guided walking tour of Oxford, based on a guidebook we bought at the visitors' centre. Went up the old Saxon tower of St Michael's, the oldest remaining building in Oxford, built before the Norman invasion. Particular highlights were the lake and fields behind Christ Church and Merton Colleges. Walked under the Bridge of Sighs, and briefly through the Bodleian ...
London Bound and Plane People Watching
... speaking country to China and then from China to another English speaking country and as like all other flights all announcements are to be done in the origin and the destination language. It was hard. They weren't very accommodating with food, people were declining their bread rolls and at one meal by the time they got to us at the back of the plane there was only a fish option and a few of us declined it but asked for a extra bread. So we went hungry! The last thing is the one ...
A Very Full Day!
... gravestones dating back into the eighteenth century (those which were still legible). I love English church graveyards as the tombstones are always interesting and at a variety of odd angles making it look very quaint.
After all of this sightseeing we returned to Upper Bucklebury quite knackered (exhausted)! Today, instead of a day of walking around Stratford-upon-Avon, I am having a quiet day to prepare myself for my final time in London.
...