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With time rapidly dwindling I went down to Banbury way this afternoon to visit my brother et famille before I leave, taking the opportunity to say goobye to two young nephews - one of whom was able to appreciate some of the implications of what I am doing, "But what if you get sick?" he asked. :-)

Back up to Stoke in the late evening. Last day of preparations tomorrow.

... and I have the Welsh artists names and web sites. Now I am excited to see what I will do with them.

Our next stop in Cardiff was the Hard Rock café to purchase shirts and hoodies for ourselves and the kids! They say Cardiff on them and we in particular wanted something from Wales. We will hit the Hard Rock in London before we go back. My main question is how do we get all these ...

... all the skyscrapers are lit up and you watch the light show from across the water; and yes, shopping did feature amongst it all! My hostel was in the fashion district and I had Ikea just round the corner too (!). Unfortunately, neither my luggage allowance nor my bank balance permitted any excess spending , but it really is a shoppers paradise. and then after 2 nights in HK... home! and the end of a fantastic 3.5 months.

... Giles, which turns into Woodstock and leads right to St. Anne's. I knew David must be starving (his plane had been delayed and he had gotten into Heathrow at 8 that morning) so I stopped at my favorite deli, Taylor's, and we got an almond croissant and baklava and munched our way to my room. We went to lunch at St. Anne's, then headed to the train station. Daisy's family had invited both of us to the Lake District on Saturday, and we had to buy David a ...

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Took us a couple of hours and we got the audio tour included in the price which made it very interesting. It is a ruined castle and huge. It used to have a moat and lake around it. The Norman Keep is huge and walls were 8' thick. We saw the kitchen with huge fireplaces and bread ovens. Robert ...

... church of St. Lawrence. We then crossed little streams and did a huge uphill walk in deep mud tracks. At the top of the hill we followed the road back to Chipping Campden for the next 2-3/4 miles. The wind howled at times and was freezing. We passed fields of black sheep and then ...

... come home.






We walked around Holy Trinity Church looking for Shakespeare's grave. Didn’t find it, but had fun reading the headstones. Found out later that it is inside the church. Bought some duck food for 50p ($1.15) and fed all the swans, ducks and geese.






Then into the info centre and booked our ...

Woke up early again and it started to snow & was 0 degrees! Had a lazy start to the day. Nathan had a huge breakfast – 3 pain au chocolat, 1 apple, 1 mandarin, 1 piece of toast with an egg!








Today was our hiking day and we drove 1 hour to the village of Bibury ...

... the two, had holes in the walls called murder holes to pour boiling water or shoot from to kill them.








We then climbed up and walked along the Ramparts and Towers along the whole front wall. It was so windy and cold. All day we were freezing and our feet were numb. It was about 2 degrees C.





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... 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