Ha we arrived and thanks to being COMPLETELY exhausted by the delays in Singapore slept really well in the back of the plane and so arrived in Heathrow relatively fresh.
It was a beautiful day and we spent it wandering around Groover’s old haunts. Saw every house he lived in and his schools. Went for walks in Burnham Beeches – a favourite with the kids and experienced nettles.
Well I have never seen a nettle so I was quite keen to see some. My only experience with nettles is the Christopher Robin poem where the Little Black Hen offers to brush her wing across the nettle place on his knee.
So Groover found us some nettles and I brushed my hand across the leaves. OUCH! They REALLY HURT. I was so shocked. It was like a brush with an electric fence. Groover showed me how to rub the sting with dock leaves and the sting lessened. Anyway after that it was a big game with the kids who both ended up stung by nettles before the day was out.
We stayed at the Christopher Wren Hotel on the bridge at Windsor and walked around the castle. It was a charming hotel, brilliant location.
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That night Groover went “out with the boys” and didn’t have anything to eat and so was a bit worse for wear the next morning. We got organised early though and after a shaky start made it onto the M4 toward Bath.
On the way we stopped at Ludgershall Castle – a ruined hunting lodge – the kids loved the chance to run around like mad things – and then Stonehenge.
It has really changed since last I went there. You can’t get within 20m of the stones but instead you get a fantastic audio commentary describing them and pointing out significant bits. It meant you got a lot more out of the experience. The kids enjoyed squashing pennies and we all trooped back into the car to head to Bath.
We stayed in the Paradise Hotel, a small 11 room hotel near the city centre – absolutely charming. Groover found it on TripAdviser.com and we can’t recommend this website highly enough.
We left the hotel almost immediately and caught a tour bus to orient ourselves – very funny commentary. Then dinner and back to the hotel to sleep. All of us in the same room! Breakfast was ample and delicious and we’re back in the city centre now downloading photos and getting ready to tour the Roman Baths… perhaps I can even convince the family to go with me to the Jane Austen museum… sigh.