We’ve been away on holiday….
We’ve been to the Welsh Marches, having a wonderful time. The holiday was wonderful, just what we needed, a good mix of doing not-a-lot, visits to castles, cathedrals and abbeys, tea-rooms and pubs! We stayed in Hereford and used that as our base for exploring the lovely borders between England and Wales. We visited cathedrals such as Worcester…
Abbeys such as Tintern…
And castles such as Chepstow…
I have to give a massive thank-you to Si at this point for allowing another man to join us on our holiday. That man was William Marshall, a knight from the thirteenth century who I have been a little bit in love with since reading Elizabeth Chadwick's novels and then the translation of his auto-biography. Poor Si had to put up with me declaring that William Marshall could have walked here every time we ascended or descended steps, or walked along any path – come to think of it!
Of course there was plenty to time for relaxing and doing nothing. I have to confess I didn’t crochet as much as I thought I would have, or would have liked to. I went with the intention of crocheting lots and lots of granny-squares: something easy to crochet, but results in something really rather wonderful. I only made ten…
Instead, I got lost in a book. One of the best books I have read in a long-time A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness, even if the final few chapters were setting-up for the next book in the trilogy!
It was lovely just to spend the time mooching from place to place with no particular place to be or time to be there by. Going where we felt like: influenced only by our whim, and a little by the weather. The holiday wasn’t as far-flung as last year: visiting Florence, but sometimes English (or Welsh) strawberries and cream are just what you need…
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