Reliving Childhood
When my brother and I were younger, we would always go with our parents on family holidays. Quite often the holidays would have been to England in the caravan. I always enjoyed going away on these trips, and I think it’s down to these that I have such a love of travel. However, I don’t think I ever really appreciated some of the places we went to, gardens, estates, mansions, quaint little villages etc, and I usually got bored quickly.
Bourton on the Water
Now that I am older though, and also because I am a photographer, I am coming to realise how great these places we went to really were. I want to revisit the places my parents took me as a child. Recently, I had a week off work, and Lorraine and I headed to one of these places. We flew over to Bristol, hired a car and drove up to the Cotswolds fo a few days. It was brilliant, to just relax, with no plans, and appreciate the beautiful area of England we were in. We made the most of the car hire and unlimited mileage, we stayed in Bourton on the Water, and visited Lower Slaughter, Burford, Stow on the Wold, Stratford Upon Avon, Oxford and Bath.
Punts
Radcliffe Camera
As always, Lorraine has all the ‘normal’ photos, and I spent a lot of time behind my SLR.
Old Buildings in Stratford
Bath Abbey
There are a few more photos on my Flickr
Bourton on the Water is a special place. Did you visit their model village, which includes within it a tiny model village, recursively!
It was really a great place. We didn’t visit the Model Village, no, it did cross my mind, but we didn’t. We did however visit Bird Land, which wasn’t bad.