Cotswolds adventuring
February 27, 2006 at 10:10 pm | In personal, travel | 4 Comments
I have just spent a very happy weekend exploring the Cotswolds with my family. I had Friday afternoon off, so we took this as a perfect opportunity to go for lunch at the Bell in Charlbury near where I work, then explore the local villages a little.
We drove up to Islip, the most humorously literal village I have ever seen, all the houses were called things like ‘river view’, ‘the old smithy’ and suchlike, the main street was ‘the walk’, I found this all very funny. Afterwards we went to the Hotel and watched DVDs and ate popcorn and cake.
We went to a number of other little towns over the weekend, including Burford, Woodstock, Blenheim palace and Bourton on the water (so called ‘Venice of the Cotswolds’) all very pretty, I think Burford was my favourite, every so picturesque.
On Saterday night I even managed to successfully introduce my family to Tapas!
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I read that bit as ‘popcorn cake’. Does such a thing exist, and if so where can I get it? And if not, why not?
And isn’t Laura from Burford?
Comment by radiac — February 28, 2006 #
ooh popcorn cake does sound good, I have heaps of popcorn left over I wonder how I could make it into cake …
I think Laura might be from Burford, I didn’t remember at the time though, otherwise I might have been able to wave randomly in the direction of her parents house :)
Comment by natbat — March 3, 2006 #
Hey, Islip is the next village to mine! It’s great round here, ain’t it?
Comment by Adam Hopkinson — May 16, 2006 #
Looks like you enjoyed you adventure, big time! I’ve seen those houses too in lslip, aren’t they extraordinary? Oh well, maybe I need some popcorns too.
Comment by ced102 — September 2, 2006 #