Rob Little's Blog – the musings of an English / British Tour Guide !

Anyone enjoying a Cotswold tour today and who happens to be in my home town of Tetbury, will happen upon a somewhat peculiar annual event that takes place each spring bank holiday Monday! It involves teams of runners with heavy wool sacks on their backs running down the very steep and precarious “Gumstool Hill” between two pubs – The Crown and the Royal Oak. Yes you guessed the event does involve beer !

The town gets very festive – there is a street fair and funfair for the kids, a French market etc ! Lets hope the weather holds. These photos are from a previous year as I am working and may not be able to add any today.

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Just a couple of photos…..the “Wicker Man” taken while travelling at speed on the M5 motorway at Bridgwater, Somerset. Also a country lane in the beautiful Quantock Hills showing a newly thatched cottage and the hedgerows bursting with wild flowers including Queen Anne’s Lace and Celandines.

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…..outside my house last night !

Here we are back at Hidcote Manor on a one day tour of the Cotswolds with some people from Long Island.

See the pics…..what a nice place for lunch?

Moving on to the beautiful village of Stanton in Worcestershire

Then onto Upper Slaughter Manor and Lower Slaughter – stone bridge & mill.

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…..through a dirty windshield!

Hidcote Gardens – designed by an American ! Showing my hot and weary friends on their last day in England!

Diet Coke in a frozen glass on another steamy day in Stow-on-the-Wold! Unusually for us the glass was from the freezer – logical at 80F, but rather puzzling at just 8F ????

On a Cotswold Tour ending up at Hidcote Manor Garden – I may even go in myself and take some pics!

Rob Little
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Lets Tour England

On a tour of Bath – in the 80s !
Showing Pultney Bridge and Bath Abbey.
And Castle Combe.
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Lets Tour England

Today, with temeratures in the 80s we leave the ancient town of Rye on our garden tour – the first stop being Wakehurst Place ”Kew Gardens in the Country”! Stonehenge is next on the agenda followed by Stourhead Gardens and ending the day in Bath !

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…..to end the day, a nice pint of Abbot (5.6%) in a village pub next to the green.