Farewell Cotswolds and the UK

Today we said farewell to the Cotswolds going via Arlington Row and Castle Combe (not a castle, we knew that already).

Arlington Row is a row of quaint cottages by a river and honestly it must drive the owner/occupiers nuts with the amount of tourists walking right up to their windows (the cottages are up against the road verge). At another building of the row we saw a sign in four languages basically saying Private Property Keep Out. Following conversations with some locals in Bourton, they informed me that Asian and American tourists are the worst, they feel like the whole place is a Disneyland set they can do as they please on, opening garden gates, trespassing, even entering private homes for pictures. Some people have no respect at all.

From here we went to Castle Combe, many movies have been filmed here due to its picturesque and quintessentially classic English look and feel, no new buildings have been built since the 1600's. Dr Doolittle (1967) was filmed here. We had lunch and then wandered around, it was probably the best way to finish a holiday in the UK, just brilliant.

From there is was off the Heathrow. All good until security, I had given Lorraine all of my souvenirs without telling her what they were. Well she got stopped because one of my items was a corkscrew, my fault I should never assume she would look at what I've bought, I thought she had only packed the delicate items in carry on. Luckily they took pity on us to have it, now we just have to get through Dubai security with it.

We got here 4 hours before flight time (hire car return), so its a long wait now before we board the first leg.

2019-09-29 - Farewell Cotswolds