Trip to Cotswolds - day 2

Date: 30th December 2007
Venue: Cotswolds

It's Sunday, it's time for ur to go to church to worship our God. We attended
Sunday Service at Parish church of St.James at Chipping Campden. It's one of
the England's finest wool churches.
For more info, please refer to http://www.stjameschurchcampden.co.uk/











After Sunday worship, we headed towards our 1st destination for 2nd day
which was Moreton-in-Marsh. We did not stop at the village but we went for
a walk at Batsford Arboretum and Wild Garden situated 1 1/4 miles west of
Moreton-in-Marsh.


Background of Moreton-in-Marsh:
Moreton-in-Marsh in Gloucestershire is one of the
principal market towns in the northern Cotswolds situated on the Fosse Way and now
served by the main line railway from London. It grew up in the thirteenth century as a
market town with a wide main street, narrow burgage plots and back lanes. There still
is a busy Tuesday market with about 200 stallsattracting many visitors. Moreton has
been a traveller's town for at least 1700 years and was used as a coaching station before
the coming of the Oxford to Worcester railway in 1853. There are several pubs, inns,
hotels, tea shops, restaurants and accommodation in the form of B&Bs and holiday
cottages in the immediate vicinity. A popular caravan site exists just on the outskirts
of the town.

The high street has many elegant eighteenth-century inns and houses including the
Redesdale Market Hall, a Victorian 'Tudor' building of some distinction. The oldest
building is likely to be the sixteenth-century Curfew tower on the High Street. Its bell
was rung nightly until 1860 to remind people of the risk of fire at night. The Parish
church of St. David was originally a chapel of ease for Bourton-on- the-Hill and in 1858
was rebuilt in medieval style.


What is arboretum?
It's actually collection of trees. However, Batsford Arboretum has much more
to offer. Shrubs, bamboos, spring bulbs, majestic tress, a hermit's cave, statues,
waterside planting and mich more. It's all incorporated into 56 acres of magical
Victorian wild garden. It's a great plcae to visit for plant hunters, naruealists
and people seeking for a plce to relax and enjoy the inherent beauty and
serenity. For more info, please refer to http://www.batsarb.co.uk/







Private Mansion


Cathedral


Inside the Cathedral


What a big bible!!!!!!!


After that, we headed towards Bourton-on-the-water.

Backround of Bourton-on-the-water:
Bourton on the Water, known as "The Venice of the Cotswolds" is an extremely popular
village where elegant 18th century bridges cross the River Windrush as it flows through
the centre of the village. Although Bourton on the Water is a large village as villages go,
there are more attractions in Bourton on the Water than you would perhaps expect to
find in a destination of its size. Bourton on the Water grasps the tourism industry with
both hands ad offers the model village, Birdland, Bourton Model Railway, Cotswold
Perfumery, Cotswold Motoring Museum and Toy Collection, Dragonfly Maze and
Salmonsbury Meadows Nature Reserve amongst its attractions. Many of the buildings
in Bourton on the Water have been built in warm yellow Cotswold stone and many of
the houses and cottages are 300 years old, some dating back to Elizabethan times four
hundred years ago.





Model Village


Horse on the road


Good quote!!!!! Guys, do you agree?
Girls, I'm sure you will agree!!!!! hahaha!!!!



Motor Museum

After about 2 hours walk at Bourton-on-the-water, we headed towards
Stow-on-the-Wold for dinner. At first, we planned to eat Chinese food, but
we can't get any Chinese restaurant here except one take away chinese food
shop which does not allow eat in. So, no choice, we have to eat Western food
again!!

Background of Stow-on-the-Wold:
Stow-on-the-Wold is a delightful market town and along with Moreton in Marsh,
perhaps the best known of the small Cotswolds towns. Stow-on the-Wold stands
exposed on a 700 feet high hill at a junction of seven major roads, including the Roman
Fosse Way.At the height of the Cotswold wool industry the town was famous for it's
huge annual fairs where as many as 20,000 sheep were sold at one time. The vast Market
Square testifies to the towns former importance. At one end stands the ancient cross,
and at the other the town stocks, shaded between an old elm tree. Around the square the
visitor is faced with an elegant array of Cotswold town houses. Stow is an important
shopping centre and has many fine Antique shops, Art galleries, Gifts and Crafts and is a
centre for Walking the Cotswolds countryside.

Starter: Smoked mackerel


Nelson's pork chop


My rosted beef with potato





It's still early by the time we got back to Volunteer Inn. So, we decided to watch
TV. It's a horror movie.

Starring: Harrison Ford & Michelle Pfeiffer

What Lies Beneath (2000) Synopsis:
It had been a year since Dr. Norman Spencer betrayed his beautiful wife Claire.
But with Claire oblivious to the truth and the affair over, Norman's life and
marriageseem perfect--so perfect that when Claire tells him of hearing
mysterious voices and seeing a young woman's wraithlike image in their home,
he dismisses her mounting terror as delusion. However, as Claire moves closer
to the truth, it becomes clear that this apparition will not be dismissed, and has
come back for Dr. Norman Spencer... and his beautiful wife.

The end of 2nd day of our trip..........................