BeenThere-DoneThat Blog

A blog about life and travel in Great Britain

Browsing Posts published in August, 2009

Bank Holiday

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Today, in Britain, is a Bank Holiday (Public Holiday) and we woke up to a cloudy sky. However by mid-morning the sun had started to break through and by lunch time it was a really beautiful day with blue sky and a few puffy clouds. After lunch we decided that although it was a Bank [...]

Springs and Things.

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Recently a friend of ours who lives in Royston, Hertfordshire invited us over for the day and took us to the village of Ashwell which is six and a half miles west of Royston. We parked by the roadside next to the Ashwell Springs -the “well” from which Ashwell gets its name. The water rises [...]

Oxon-Hants-Wilts: Homeward Bound.

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Day 4 – Wednesday 19th August 2009 Having stayed in Andover for three nights we thought that we should at least have a look round before we left. It’s not a place that would interest the average tourist but it does have some attractive corners and old buildings. There is the Town Mills pub, for [...]

Day 3 – Tuesday 18th August 2009 Today is Salisbury day. We head off to the Park & Ride Car Park on the outskirts of Salisbury but just before we get there we find ourselves at a junction with the entrance to the Old Sarum site opposite so we elect to go in This is [...]

Day 2 – Monday 17th August 2009 The hotel didn’t serve meals in the evening on a Sunday (yesterday) so we bought a Chinese Take Away and ate it in our room. We spent a good night in a very comfortable bed. There was no apparent noise except when the traffic started to move in [...]

Day 1 – Sunday 16th August 2009 We left home around 10:00 AM to start our next trip with a weather forecast for the next four days as 'Sunny Spells' or 'Partly Cloudy' depending on which forecast one chooses. Our first destination was Boars Hill near Oxford which, we learned, gives wonderful views over the [...]