The Cotswolds 23-26 Oct 14

A long weekend away to celebrate a big birthday. We drove across to the Broadway Caravan Club Site on Thursday, set up quickly and walked the short distance into the lovely town of Broadway for a mooch about before stopping at a very friendly local for a pint or two. On Friday the weather forecast wasn't good, so we took the bus into Stratford-upon-Avon where we bumped in Giles Brandreth filming outside Shakespeare's birthplace and avoided the hideous funfair set up in the middle of town (why do we still entertain the monstrous, noisy, expensive, crap things! They are not "fairs" in the truest sense). Dodging the rain, we went into the RSC theatre where they had an excellent Bruce Bairnsfather exhibition, before retiring to the pub for a light lunch, then bus back to Broadway, changed, and then had a superb dinner in an excellent restaurant in town.

After the long day on Friday we decided to have a relaxing walk on Saturday, so we set off to walk up Broadway Tower, enjoyed the views, went down into the nuclear bunker (no views), had a snack in the tea rooms (noisy and full of kids), took an alternate route back following the Cotswold way and ended up with a relaxing day turning into a 10 mile hike! Still, there was a superb pizza stall set up on camp and the pizza went down very well.

On Sunday it was up early to park in Bourton on the Water, a few photos in town before the tourists arrived, another walk into Lower Slaughter, cream tea and the drive back home.

Broadway is a great site and will be even better when they finish the heritage railway that will run alongside the site.

"You can dance, you can jive
Having the time of your life, ooh
See that girl, watch that scene
Digging the Dancing Queen"