Saturday, April 29, 2006

Sunday 23rd April

Wake up early, prepare to go birding! ah its raining! Make tea go back to bed and read, finished book.

So where to? Off to Bourton-on-the-Water

Picturesque place with the river running through it.













Picturesque it may be but it gets packed in Summer (lots of tourist shops). but on a dull Sunday in April its pleasant.











I always think of Broadway as being "upmarket Cotswolds tourist"

Ye olde shoppe, ye expensive!
















Still Broadway seems to be suffering as a view shops have closed.

Just as we had lunch it rained - good timing really. On to Snowshill Manor. Now owned by the National Trust it is a small manor house which Charles Paget Wade used to hold his massive collection.


Samurai suits of armour? bikes? its here. Paget lived in an out building and was a true English eccentric.












Snowshill Village - very picturesque.













The evening strol throuh up three raptors, Buzzards, Kestrels and a very nice Red Kite.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Snowshill - my favourite NT place around here. And a Red Kite too - nice !!

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