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| Red Arrows |
We weren't too sure about this one. A nasty cold meant that we didn't tag anything on to the beginning of the trip to give us a chance to recover, so we set out on Monday morning. We encountered quite heavy traffic at various stages along the route then found that those complete tits at Thames water had closed the road through Lechlade. We had no idea where to go, there were no diversion signs, and it was all a bit of a mess, so we took a chance and went down some narrow, twisty roads, eventually arriving at the Gloucestershire DA Temporary Holiday Site next to RAF Fairford. It was raining. It was also St Swithin's Day, so the portents weren't good. Anyway, we pitched up and relaxed a bit, amused to hear the retreat, national anthem and star spangled banner blaring our from the speakers at the base at exactly 1700hrs.
On Tuesday, after being woken up at 0630hrs by a U2 Spy Plane taking off, we marched into Fairford along a fast road with no pavement and stinging nettles growing in the verges. Fairford is a nice enough place with a wonderful church (St Mary's), which contains a remarkable set of medieval stained glass windows. Having had a good mooch about we took our lives in our hands once again and headed back along the road.
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| Fairford Market |
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| River Colne |
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| St Mary's Church |
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| Fairford |
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| The grave of Tiddles the church cat |
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| Misericord depicting a man being battered by a woman |
Wednesday was market day in Fairford. We walked back in and looked at the 6 or so stalls that comprise the market before restocking our provisions and heading back.
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| Trout for tea? |
From Thursday to Sunday we stayed on the site watching the Air Tattoo from our pitch. It was very noisy, but the lovely ice cream drove up to our pitch each day and on Saturday evening a pizza van turned up so we had a break from cooking.
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| Alenia C27J Spartan doing things a big cargo aircraft shouldn't be doing! |
On Monday we packed up quickly and headed for home, stopping for LPG at Witney and for lunch and a bit of shopping at Rushden Lakes shopping centre (but finding where we were supposed to park was a nightmare).
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| Rushden Lakes parking |
In all, the trip was better than we expected and we really enjoyed the rest. We'd probably do it again.
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