Cotswold Hotel

... and a great way to see the countryside. Today we are seeing the Cotswolds by car with our guide John Bateman a retired educator and Cotswold specialist. Our first stop was Stow- on- the- Wold, the highest town in the Cotswolds  located near the Roman ...

... on the Water where we had "cream tea" which was of poor quality. It started to rain again!.We pushed onto Tewkesbury staying at the Abbey Hotel which was built around 1600 pic of deed of sale 1605. We had a nice meal in The Bell pub built in 1696, here a ...

... entire town in 20 minutes, but a great afternoon. After a relaxing afternoon in the Cotswolds, we've made our way over to Cardiff in Wales, of course not without our troubles in finding the hotel... Mapquest, doesn't always get it right over here ...

... in Christchurch than Sydney - we had to put ALL our bags back through the scanner before we left the airport. Arrived at our hotel at about 12.30 a.m. Sunday morning - being shown to our room was like a scene out of a Victoria Wood sketch!!!  The ...

... day.  Like many of the Cotswold towns and villages, the buildings here were built with the very distinctive honey-coloured Cotswold stone from the local quarries. Many of the buildings date back to the 16th century. We then checked out the market ...

... it just makes for a big headache. It was still fun, though. We got to tour the English countryside and see all the Cotswold cottages with their thatch roofs and cotswold stones. They were beautiful! We also go to tour the house where Shakespeare was born ...

... called Evesham which is on the River Avon. It was a bit sluggish. Evesham is not in the Cotswolds. The first little Cotswold village we passed through was Broadway. It was a quaint little village with narrow little street, tiny little shops, stone houses ...

... do a very short ride to Cardiff. We were looking for somewhere cool to stay and pulled in when we saw the Cotswold Gateway Hotel in Burford. It's very very nice indeed. Spoiling ourselves after our more basic accomodation so far. Couple of slightly fuzzy ...

... Singapore we flew onto London Heathrow and spent a few days with family just outside Oxford on the edge of the Cotswold Hills amongst little villages of honey coloured limestone buildings and thatched roofs amidst a patchwork of woods, fields and bushy ...

... along the way and picked up others!  haha!  I think I stopped to get something to eat on my way back to the hotel??  or I was dreaming??  OK!  enough!  let just say I had a good time!  HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! 2010 is ...

... a route that took us through the Cotswolds with a stop at Northleach; an historic market town still with mainly buildings of Cotswold stone.  We explored the market square and sat in to enjoy a drink and local cake before continuing to our ...

... ;spotted several animals including a penguin, some seals, and the Hector Dolphin which is the world’s smallest and most endangered dolphin species. After the harbor tour, I returned to the hotel in Christchurch on the bus arriving around ...

... on new years!  at least I have done mine and most of you are just getting started! I walked back to the Museum ( the hotel)  and decided to sit outside and catch some rays and just hang out!  I have a long rise tomorrow... 6 hours to ...

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