For my last full day in the Cotswolds I had planned to visit several smaller villages and places, but the coldest night (and day) England had seen in years, made me change my plans. Single track roads weren´t ploughed and quite icy with frozen snow and as I wasn´t completely certain the car could take […]
An area that has been settled since the Iron Age and the Roman times, Bampton was mentioned as a market town by 1086 and stayed an important settlement in the Saxon and Middle Ages thanks to wool and later on textile- and leatherworking. For visitors today it might seem oddly familiar when you watch the TV […]
Even so, I was thinking about hiding in one of the many rooms (or cupboards) at Highclere Castle, I continued my little road trip in direction of Bampton. Suddenly it stopped snowing and the sun came out. The perfect Winter Wonderland: snow, blue sky and sunshine! And so I decided to stop at Fairford, a […]