Cotswolds adventuring

Mum and dad navigating arround BurfordI have just spent a very happy weekend exploring the Cotswolds with my family. I had Friday afternoon off, so we took this as a perfect opportunity to go for lunch at the Bell in Charlbury near where I work, then explore the local villages a little.

We drove up to Islip, the most humorously literal village I have ever seen, all the houses were called things like ‘river view’, ‘the old smithy’ and suchlike, the main street was ‘the walk’, I found this all very funny. Afterwards we went to the Hotel and watched DVDs and ate popcorn and cake.

We went to a number of other little towns over the weekend, including Burford, Woodstock, Blenheim palace and Bourton on the water (so called ‘Venice of the Cotswolds’) all very pretty, I think Burford was my favourite, every so picturesque.

On Saterday night I even managed to successfully introduce my family to Tapas!

3 Responses

  1. I read that bit as ‘popcorn cake’. Does such a thing exist, and if so where can I get it? And if not, why not?

    And isn’t Laura from Burford?

    radiac - February 28th, 2006 at 12:59 pm
  2. ooh popcorn cake does sound good, I have heaps of popcorn left over I wonder how I could make it into cake …

    I think Laura might be from Burford, I didn’t remember at the time though, otherwise I might have been able to wave randomly in the direction of her parents house :)

    natbat - March 3rd, 2006 at 12:40 am
  3. Hey, Islip is the next village to mine! It’s great round here, ain’t it?

    Adam Hopkinson - May 16th, 2006 at 9:54 pm

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