It is Saturday and we are home. Here are some things we did during our time in the country.
Thursday - Our day began with Ray picking us up at the hotel. He is an exuberant, fun-loving, guy who has been a Blue Badge tour guide for 25 years. He certainly knows his stuff. We drove through parts of London that we had not seen before. I described some of them yesterday. Our dinner was in the town of Bray on Thames in a pub owned by Heston Blumenthal, the 3 star chef who has a gourmet restaurant in the town. The Hound's Head is a Michelin starred pub from the 15th century. Virag, our waitress from Hungary, was excellent and by the end of the evening we were laughing so hard we could not stop. Not sure what was so funny, but it didn't matter. Just good times together.
Friday - Breakfast served in the Pavilion at the Monkey's Island Hotel. Plentiful, and with wonderful French pressed coffee. Rosemary described it as the best coffee she had tasted so far.
We traveled through the countryside, stopping briefly for a look in the gardens of the Danesforth Hotel. (need to check this name). The gardens were gorgeous and we ducked in and around them. Then on to Oxford where we learned about the colleges (some 38 as I recall). We saw where President Clinton studied as well as many other buildings. Oxford is the oldest university in the English speaking world. Been home of the Rhodes scholarship for more than a century.
Our next destination was Blenheim Palace, residence of the Dukes of Marlborough. We had a spot of lunch and then joined a group for a tour of the main rooms.
Our final stop was a swing through some of the towns in the Cotswolds. We stopped for a brief time in
Dinner was in the hotel's dining room. Adequate and plentiful, but certainly not gourmet.
More drinking and sharing our love for travel and the camaraderie we all shared.
This blog is not very easy to use and I often lose things. So when I want to place a picture I sometimes find that the entire entry has disappeared. Well, that certainly is annoying.
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