Lavenham!

Janet has become so lazy, we anticipate she will stretch this three week trip to the UK into 6 months of blogging!

The trip from Bath to Lavenham was ugly in so many ways.  The car rental depot was a "20 minute" walk from the Guesthouse.  Turned out to be 2 hours.  Now they are seriously late to beat the traffic on the London Orbital, a trip that was meant to take 4 hours.  For about the last hour and half of the trip the GPS said they were 1/2 hour from destination.  Then for the last 30 minutes of the trip, they were only 5 minutes away.  It took way longer than was anticipated.

It was a really crappy day.  The piece de resistance - when they arrived at the cottage in Lavenham, there weren't any keys in the lock box.  The perfect ending to a perfectly bad day.

They went to No.10 Wine Bar for dinner whilst waiting for the keys.

Red Mullet and so delicious!

Lavenham is one of the best preserved Medieval villages in the UK.  Buildings look so tipsy, it's a shock they haven't fallen over decades ago.

This house was directly across the street from Janet and Phil's cottage.  The lady that owned the house said it was "Harry Potters" house in the movie.  The lady at the tourist office declined to agree.  She said that while it was in the movie, it wasn't actually Harry Potters house.  It is now for sale for 995,700GBP.

This house was apparently also used in the movies.

More colourful houses from the village:

And, a really cool old fashioned store.  The weed killer was on the shelf right beside the wine!

Lavenham was a very wealthy cloth town and like all wealthy towns from back in the day, had an incredible church.

It was really beautiful.  Janet loves to look inside old British churches.

Janet was thinking she might sign up Turkey Dinners for this Dog Gun Course, but then she remembered he would likely jump out of his skin at the sound of a shotgun.  Turkey Dinners has many of the same personality traits as Rockers - big doggie, incredibly loving, dumb in so many lovable ways and somewhat nervous of his own shadow.

Some cute cows who say "Good Night"!

Why are the branches on the other side of the fence always better?