We spent our first day in the Cotswolds at Bourton on Water, clearly to distinguish it from the Bourton not on water. It was a beautiful day in a picture postcard perfect place. We wandered up a street and came across this - the village was both quaint and beautiful.
It was Bank Holiday and there was huge crowd in probably most had made the journey for the excitement of the rubber duck races which ran every 15 minutes for the whole afternoon. Choose your duck (£1) and the winner collected £10.
We have no more idea of how than we do of why and somehow that makes it all the more remarkable, how anyone had that much time and energy left over after they had finished surviving is unbelievable.
We travelled from Selsley, our base in the Cotswolds to a farm in Criggion in Wales. A B and B where we did indulge in the hot breakfast more often than was necessary.
Another beautiful place we even took the opportunity to ride the 20 kms around Lake Vrynwy (yes that is the correct spelling) and it was nice to be back in the saddle.
We also visited the ruins below, themselves atop a steep hill. Built in the thirteenth century the castle was used for 17 years before being abandoned.
The adventure goes on, we arrived today in the home of Lakeland pencils, the pinnacle of the coloured pencil maker's craft when we were kids. There is a museum which we have pencilled in for Friday which is apparently going to be wet.
And finally a photo taken from on our horse drawn boat trip in Llangollen. I write looking out over beautiful gardens from the Hayloft much better appointed than its name might suggest and more importantly it is tea time!
