Pash is Back!

Sorry, guys.  Janet said I could help with the blog everyday they were on the trip because I never get to help.

We were all set to dig in (get it?).   I need Janet to download the photos and do the typing for me, just like she does for Noodles and Rockers.  Then disaster struck!  They lost their internet!  Bummer for me.  At any rate, here is what they have done since Monday.

Hailles Abbey is a National Trust property close to where they were.    The history of abbeys and the dissolution of them is quite interesting to Janet and she wishes she had studied history when she was smarter and younger.  Go, Janet, go.  You can still do it!

Janet and Phil have done several walks out of their 1001 Walks of Britain book.  Thus far these two morons have been on two walks where they didn't get lost.  This is one of the walks.

This is Sezincote Manor which Janet says is a very unusual style of  building in the U.K.....OK, make that anywhere outside of India.  A couple of years ago, they toured the manor.  It is privately owned and is on a huge piece of land.

Cute British Brown Cows came hustling over to the gate when they walked by.

This incredible cutie was on another walk they managed to execute.   They walked from Guiting Power through Naunton and back to Guiting Power for about two hours.  It was a lovely walk.

Janet says she pet his face and scratched behind his ear, which he enjoyed so much he kept leaning into Janet's hand.

Janet went back to the Cotswold Park Farm that she loves so much.  She bought two bags of food to feed some of the animals.

Super.  Super.  Cute.

These guys act like they are starving to death, which they are far from!

Iron Age Pigs.  Janet said some were playing together.

This walk, which is one where they were lost, was 2 1/2 hours long and went past a quarry where they get stone for the fabulous Cotswold Stone houses and fences.  There are many quarries.

They bid farewell to the cottage where they have stayed for the last 8 nights.  It was really nice, if a bit tiny, but Janet loved the cottage and the small, quiet village it was in and didn't want to leave.

Before they left the Cotswolds, they has lunch at Horse and Groom, one of their favourites in this neck of the woods in Bourton on the Hill.  Phil had Rack of Lamb with vegetables that could not have been cooked more perfectly with Chorizo crumbs. (Janet says she needs to look that one up).  She had fried polenta with goat cheese and tomatoes.  Noodles and Rockers and myself are all hoping we recognize these two ton Tonys when the arrive home!

They have moved onto their next destination - Bridgnorth in Shropshire.  They are staying in a B & B.  Janet was a bit sad about how tiny the room was.  However, she says there are dogs and chickens to make up for it.

Meet Wizard and Windsor.  They don't live here, but are residing on a temporary basis.  They are fox hounds.  The best Janet can understand is they are not allowed to be pets as once they reach a certain age, the urge to follow a scent is too strong.  They will join a pack of fox hounds when they are about a year old.  At this point in time, they are so friendly and really well behaved.  They love Janet!

Janet had one more interesting thing to tell me.  From their cottage, they went for a walk from Bourton on the Water (as opposed to on the Hill!) to Upper Slaughter and Lower Slaughter; two very beautiful villages.  In Upper Slaughter, they passed a huge manor house where a woman is walking a dog.  The dog is pulling to the edge of the fence to greet them and Janet wants to say hi to the puppy.  Turns out the woman has a cousin who lives in Canada; on Vancouver Island.  Nice coincidence.  Said cousin lives in Nanaimo, but has just moved back to Victoria.  Said cousin lives in 2500 block of Cadboro Bay Road, about six blocks from Camp Canada.    When the cousins name came up, they had been in Victoria for a very small time, but went to Nanaimo for work.  Phil had shown them houses.  Major.  Small.  World.  Department!