We made our way to Eyam in the north of England and spent five hours wandering the little village reading and looking at the houses and graves associated with the Plague and then wandered along the moors of the village to find the historic locations I had read about.
We headed south and stayed just outside Birmingham for the night and then set off for Gloucester. We had set off without planning where we were going as we had intended to go to Gloucester to catch up with a friend of our neighbours' Wendy and Derek. He was unable to catch up on short notice so off we went to Tidworth.
We should have gone to Avebury on the way to see the 'Ring of Stones' but oh no didn't check where things were on the map and went down the Salisbury plains to Tidworth - this is where my great grandfather is buried in a military cemetery .It was not difficult to find and after driving through many tiny towns with roads that were like driveways with thatched roofves we arrived around lunch time. We noticed that there was a military presence around and found out later this is England's training ground
and 20,000 people in this area are connected with the armed forces. We ended up driving through their training area and having to watch out for any tanks that may be crossing.
Ready to go to Bath we thought we better check out where Stonehenge was and yes we were heading away from it and as it was on my list so we turned around and made the journey to see it. We then drove all the way back to Avebury.
Not to be turned off by the amount of driving we had already done we traveled onto Bath only to find that it is quite difficult to drive around and find somewhere to stay that can take the car as well. We ended finding one on a busy street corner just off Sidney Place/Great Putney Street. Again we picked a 2-3 star hotel but it was central and we could walk into the centre of town. Well, we went to go out the door this morning and couldn't get it open, with places to go I was not about to sit and wait for someone to turn up, (it appears the owners do not stay on the premises) I went down the fire escape from the third floor, found a chair and climbed over the 2metre fence clinging to the drain pipe and dropped to the ground-I couldn't step on the empty kegs as they would have rolled away from beneath me, I was a bit scared the drainpipe would come off the wall as it was quite wobbly. Anyway I went and unlocked the door from the outside and let Jack out. He has changed the key over but I will not be happy if we have to do the same thing tomorrow. Today we did a couple of tours around Bath on the bus – the only way to really see Bath and tomorrow we are off to Gloucester and then the Cotswolds.
P S Cheap accommodation, I think there is always going to be some drama.
C & J
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