It has been a wee bit quiet on ‘Pining’ this week because we’ve been away on another of our British road trips. We’re trying to visit places we haven’t been to before in a bid to get to know our own country better, plus it means you don’t have to bother with airports.
This time we went to:
Morecambe (just to break the journey)
Alcester
Stratford-on-Avon
Evesham
Cheltenham
Gloucester
Chipping Norton
Oxford
As usual we were running around trying to fit in as much as possible in four days, so I ended up too tired to think about blogging. We did manage to avoid the snow which I just knew would fall around Easter, the weather always turns rotten as soon as the schools go on holiday.
Scots tend to think that the weather is always better in England but it’s just as well that I decided to grab my raincoat as we were leaving the house because it rained heavily most of the time we were away and it was so cold I really wished I had taken gloves and a hat too.
Anyway, that’s what I’ve been up to this week, hopefully I’ll get around to showing you some photos later today.
It sounds as though you had a good, if tiring time. I used to live in the North West of England and then the South East – both areas get a lot of rain – the difference is that when it rains in the North West it doesn’t stop for days in the south East you get sunny spells. Here, in the North East it’s drier, but colder.
Looking forward to your photos – I’ve been to all the places you visited, apart from Alcester. Morecambe was where I spent two lovely holidays as a child.
Margaret,
I used to live in the South East – Braintree in Essex, it didn’t rain much then, but we did get snowed in for a whole week in about 1979! Morecambe was the only place I had visited before, a childhood holiday too – then we had just about the heaviest rain I’ve ever seen, and I grew up near Glasgow, which is well known for rain.
I love the names over there for towns! Chipping Norton for instants. Glad your home safe and had a great time!
Peggy Ann,
Chipping Norton is quite a tame name compared to some others. I’ll have to dredge some up from my memory for you!
Thought things were a bit quiet, was worried the snow had got you!
Looking forward to hearing what you discovered. Shame about the weather something you can never predict. Joys of being in England!
Jo,
I thought we would come home to snow, that has happened to us quite a few times at Easter but it’s all gone. We did get sleeted on in England, we were a bit worried we’d get stuck, either in snow or because of lack of petrol, but it turned out all right.