Norwich to Cotswolds

Well we said goodbye to "The Playroom" at Brastard's, Norwich today. Check out yesterday's blog for the updated photos of our dinner. Brastard's Restaurant, No.1 Restaurant in Norwich was not open, so they referred us to The Wildebeest, Norwich's No. 2 Restaurant by awards, just behind Brastard's. Now if Wildebeest is No. 2, then we can only imagine how impressive Brastard's is. Wildebeest set a new standard in our culinary experiences. To say the food was excellent is doing it a disservice, it was simply mouth wateringly awesome.

Anyway, back to today, we set out basically on schedule with only two stops in mind.  Everyday I plot out the trip and then look for POIs (points of interest) and if they do not add to much time, we via them.

We did want to go via Cambridge, but roadworks conspired us to miss the turn off so we continued to the next POI, Rugby School in Rugby, the birthplace of Rugby. We took the obligatory pics, it was damn cold and windy, and we headed off. I hope that satisfies the Rugby consortium out there, if not come here yourselves you stingy pricks.😋

From there it was off to the accommodation. Now we booked this really early, simply because in Bath I left the camera charger in the room along with the spare camera battery, so we needed a forwarding address to supply to the Hotel in Bath. At this time Lorraine did not have her Expedia Fu finely tuned so she was really worried. Previously we had booked accommodation back in London, but decided to cancel it, extend the car hire by a day and give ourselves the extra day in the Cotswolds. Well the Expedia Fu must have already been tuned, the accommodation is awesome. We have a very nice room, the only room with a private garden. I think the crowning comment was by the proprietor when he told us all of this and then looked at me and said "your gonna get some tonight, AND tomorrow morning".  I'll report back on that next day. 😁  The building is 350 years old!!

The Cotswolds is everything the postcards show, well we are in Bourton on the Water, a small part of the Cotswolds, but it is picturesque. I think Lorraine's head is going to explode.  It is known as 'Little Venice' because of the canal running through it.  The canal is filled with ducks and has three bridges over them. 

Just chillaxing now before we head out to dinner, then a quiet night before seeing the sights tomorrow.

I decided to go for a wander in the gardens. Now our staged squirrel photo looks silly because I finally captured a squirrel in the gardens. They are quick buggers, so when it sat there letting me take some pics, you can only press the button fast as you can.

2019-09-26 - Norwich to Cotswolds