Sal has been teasing me with this mystery tour holiday for over 8 weeks and finally the weekend came around. I was told to pack euros and my passport but after heading away from the airports I figured out she had fooled me big time! Only after seeing the turn off sign to Cheltenham I started to figure out what was going on.
Sal had planned a 5 star weekend in the Cotswolds, Wow!
What a beautiful part of the world. Tucked away in the rolling hills of North Western England lies a place straight out of a story book.
The first night we stayed in an amazing B&B tucked away down a tiny road in Longbourgh, Just near Moreton-in-Marsh. It reminded us so much of the farm at Sutton Forrest. The gardens were perfect!
We then slowly made our way round a few of the picturesque towns and stopped off in the touristy Stratford-on-Avon. We managed to see an amazing Shakespeare play the 'Twelfth Night' staring John Lithgow and then headed off to our next B&B in Cheltenham.
On Sunday we drove around the beautiful back roads through the hills and towns of Burford, Bourton-on-the-water, the Slaughters, Painswick, Bibury and many others.
A perfect weekend to top off a perfect 5 years.
The beautiful B&B in Longbourgh call Windy Ridge 
The gardens leading down the pool and the out house
Sal poking around the Arboretum adjoined to the property
The busy water ways of Stratford-on-Avon 
The disappointment on my face... France, USSR, USA, where is Cheltenham, Sydney, Australia? We have a sign for them!
Along the promenade at night in Cheltenham
Taking in the sights of Bibury 
Arlington Row in Bibury, the cottages were built in 1380 as a monastic wool store. 
The rolling hills of the Cotswolds
1 comment:
just a little taste of "home" hey!! Great pics, keep up the good work of posting, your fun weekends happen so fast!
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