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.