American Couple Reacts: BEST Things to do in The Cotswolds! PLUS Best Cotswolds Villages!
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- American Couple Reacts: BEST Things to do in The Cotswolds! PLUS Best Cotswolds Villages! We briefly looked at the Cotswolds nearly 2 years ago and fell in love! However, we have not looked further since! Today we finally look more in-depth at the Cotswolds! What is there to do in the Cotswolds? What are the best villages? There's also some really great history we had no idea about! This video really OVERWHELMED US by it's beauty and all the great stuff to do! We loved the Cotswolds before but we are obsessed now! We know you'll enjoy this episode. If you live in the United Kingdom and haven't been to the Cotswolds, we think you may starting planning your trip after this video! Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support! *More Links below...
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We briefly looked at the Cotswolds nearly 2 years ago and fell in love! However, we have not looked further since! Today we finally look more in-depth at the Cotswolds! What is there to do in the Cotswolds? What are the best villages? There's also some really great history we had no idea about! This video really OVERWHELMED US by it's beauty and all the great stuff to do! We loved the Cotswolds before but we are obsessed now! We know you'll enjoy this episode. If you live in the United Kingdom and haven't been to the Cotswolds, we think you may starting planning your trip after this video! Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button.
The king and Queen live very near these pictures in Tetbury. The king spends as much time as possible there.
Went touring camping and walking around Burton on water & Upper and Lower slaughter area 😍 visiting ancient site's and houses in the hot summer sun was a fantastic experience. Stayed in Bath 😍 and visited my favourite place, a Roman villa and farm called Chedworth Roman Villa, very atmospheric feeling walking around the buildings.
PS. Sir Rannolf Fiennes was annoyed by the film crew damming the river in Castle Coombe so since he was, as you'd say Natasha, "a bad ass" in the SAS he blew it up with explosives he had laying around. He was kicked out the army and became an explorer, mountaineer and legend. Look up his interviews on his life.
19:22 This is why we all say to get out of London and see areas like this. Note. The Slaughters are best walked around after the tourist coach trips have left 6pm onwards on a sunny summers evening when the setting sun set's the stone afire. Empty and stunning.
@@dave_h_8742 He was kicked out of the SAS, but not the army (though he probably should have been): he resigned his commission several years later.
Where ever tea is served you can generally get coffee too you can both be so funny thank you for brightening up my day.😊
Your comment brightened ours! Thank you ♥️
In Britain we drink 92million cups of coffee a day. We don't all drink tea. Of course nobody would say anything to you.
Of course you can get coffee in a tea room, usually better than the major coffee shop
I live in Stratford upon Avon. 20 minutes from the Cotswolds. It’s stunning. I’m so lucky to be surrounded by such beauty.
Many decommissioned phone boxes, in rural areas have been repurposed as Defibrillator Stations. Communities raise a proportion of the cost (a charity meets the rest) and create a list of locals who are contacted when the device is activated; the nearest paramedics are contacted too. The community maintains the space and the red paintwork (British Telecom provides the paint!).
And some get made into mini libraries or toy swap stations as well 🥰
This was lovely. You saw it in the colder months here in the UK. If you ever want to look at the scenery in late Summer check out the videos made by a young American couple, Ben and Rach. About to reach their 30th birthdays they decide to WALK the 102 mile Cotswold Way. Everything has been booked, all looks good but Rach gets blisters and a painful hip on the first or second day. The videos they make as they walk across the English Countryside are a joy to watch. As we hit Winter here it was uplifting to see a warmer weathered England again and to meet this delightful and engaging couple trek their way to Bath. I think you will be proud of your countrymen. The video is called 'The Cotswold Way Hike with Americans: Day 1'. I hope you are able to check it out. Love from the UK
I watched this and it was really enjoyable.
The Cotswold Way footpath runs alongside the village where I live - walkers often divert through the village for a lunch break.
What's the video name?
Although not in the Cotswolds,the Malvern hills is about 20 miles away,including WORCESTER and surrounding villages.The birthplace of EDWARD ELGAR is nearby and the scenery is beautiful especially in the Summer
G'day There!When I lived for a few years in England I was thrilled to get to the Cotswolds and while they were just gorgeousI soon learned from a close friend that a little north is the Malvern Hills unjust fell in love with that area! It has many charming villages like the Cotswolds and spectacular scenic views but without the massive crowds of tourists...I highly recommend that you try to look at the Malver Hills area! Cheers!
Morning Ladies, you're in my back garden looking at the Cotswolds, nothing better than riding my motorcycle through beautiful, quaint little thatched villages 😊
@debbie8674 it's only a plane ride away, have a look at Avebury stones when you get a minute, predates Stonehenge, more accessible to the public & on both Solstices the place is full of 'like minded' people, magical atmosphere.
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Me & my motorcycle on a ride through Biddestone, Castle Combe, Lacock & my home town of Corsham. Lacock dates back to the 14th century & the Abbey was founded in 1229, the Manor house at Corsham at the end was built in 1582.
@@unknown.5425I loved visiting Avebury. Beautiful walking the land amidst the stones..AND one can get up close to them unlike Stonehenge.
And I'm very lucky and grateful to live by Cotsworld ❤❤❤
Every time I have visited Bourton on the Water, I always go to the model village, the toy and motor museum and any fantastic coffee shop on the main street. If you go in the summer, paddling barefoot in the clear shallow water is an absolute must 😊 It was the first place I ever visited a Real Ale pub and was so embarrassed when my husband ordered a pint of The Dogs Bollocks!! I kid you not 😂 It really is a wonderful place to visit in all seasons, I am so lucky to live just over an hour and a half away, so a glorious, easy day out. Btw Natasha, coffee is available everywhere so don't worry. Artisan coffee shops are abundant and well worth a visit. One of my favourite home destinations.
Thank you girls for another excellent video x
Interesting fact that King Henry VIII fourth wife also survived Anne of Cleves (1515 - 1557) got a good divorce settlement from Henry VIII and one of her homes was Hever Castle former home of the Boleyn family.
Coffee was the national drink before tea. It's available and acceptable everywhere.
I think it is possible that it has become, or is becoming, the favourite again. Not with me however as I am the proverbial 'tea pot'. If I do drink coffee though, I like it to be a proper fresh ground, coffee, not instant.
The most popular village for Americans to visit is Bourton-on-the-water, and not Far from upper and lower Slaughter, it is all beautiful the Cotswold Area, try and hit it in Summer as it does rain a lot in UK, you can stay in a city and visit the Cotswolds like Gloucester, Gloucester is originally Roman and called Glevum, it has a famous Cathedral and some of it was used in the Harry Potter film.
I once did some volunteer work to repair some dry stone wall in the Cotswolds and very rewarding to think it should still stand another 200 years before collapsing again and my future me comes and repairs it again, yes we do sometimes take it for granted, but that History seeps into your bones, and not only do you know where you came from but you know who you are and where your going to. Visiting the Cotswolds for Americans is a bit like visiting middle earth, lol.
I love Gloucester Cathedral.. Well worth a visit
funny you should do this now, I just finished watching a series of vlogs from an American couple who walked 'The Costwold Way': a trail that stretches over a hundred miles. They made 8 eps, filming earlier this summer. I think you might like them, very young, very keen on capturing the scenery. If I knew how, I would give the link but alas, at my age, clever stuff like that is beyond me! Stay well lovely ladies, am off to watch your film now. Cheers from Brunei.
In areas with historic houses and picturesque old buildings, they are usually stylishly decorated over Christmas, no brash OTT lights. Usually seeing decorations and lighting from inside the house is what you see. Also in these 'heritage' areas there are restrictions to maintain authentic and picturesque vibe. There's a subtle blend of traditional with contemporary decor which enhances the whole magical experience.
It's going to be tough deciding where you want to visit but I see a few places tugging away at those heart strings there. The little village they showed in Bourton on the Water is incredible.
Same.
To answer Natasha's first question, yes, you can have coffee in a tea shop.
I once had the honour of working for a weekend at studley castle, back when I used to teach archery.
I've photographed weddings throughout the Cotswolds and this video is a great reminder of just how lovely it is here.
I've been to the Cotswolds ,it is beautiful ! Also you might want to check out the Peak district around Derbyshire. Its Beautiful too.
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I'm so lucky to live in the Cotswolds, just a few miles from Tetbury. Princess Anne lives just outside our village and you can see part of her estate from my garden.
The red phone boxes are often turned into libraries but in our village it's been repurposed to house a defibrillator. The model village in Bourton also has a tiny model village in it, and I think that has an even tinier model village inside - it's also the only Grade II listed model in England.
You can definitely drink coffee in a tea shop - but you might not get a wide range of different types of coffees/lattes etc to choose from.
It's so beautiful here at Christmas but, depending on which part of the Cotswolds you visit, the higher parts often get snow and the steep, winding roads can be a bit treacherous in winter.
I’ll swap your Cotswold house for my city house 🤪😉
@@jemmajames6719 thanks but having lived in cities before I think I'll stick with the countryside! 😂
So much to love in the Cotswolds 😍 Gorgeous landscape and scenery, incredible Architecture. I thoroughly enjoyed watching this video! Thanks so much Natasha and Debbie ♥♥
The National Trust has holiday cottages to rent. Worth looking on their website.
Cotswold stone is the toffee-coloured oolitic limestone, which was formed during the Jurassic era, ~145million years ago.
Girls! Your suggestion of house swaping is feasible. There is an organisation that matches up people from different places & countries with accommodation for holiday purposes. The idea is to make great savings on accommodation and provide a comfortable base for exploring. I'm sure you have the wherewithal to find them online.
Seeing your reactions I am almost ashamed at how I take for granted everything is. My daily walk includes stone walled sheep, towers, cottages & a 1500ad cathedral. England has everything and I need to remember to appreciate it. Love you both and ur videos.
I used to live in Worcester and spent many days in Broadway and the surrounding area, they have some really unusual chocolate shops and unique things to buy. One weekend in winter, I got snowed in at the Lygon Arms Hotel, and it was great. I now live in Spain, but I still miss that area I grew up in
My Dad worked at a bank in Broadway for a few years around the time I started school. We lived in Winchcombe, a lovely small town close to Sudeley Castle. Although we left the area before my tenth birthday, it still holds special memories for the unique atmosphere of the villages and countryside.
The views you see used to be called Chocolate Box views since in the Victorian era chocolate’s were sold in very ornately painted metal boxes with these sorts of views depicted, so you have chocolate box views! I definitely love visiting the villages around the Cotswolds with the strolls around and through each one!
I love visiting my family, half are in the Cotswolds and the other half in the Peak District!!! Upper Slaughter is also famous for being a 'thankful village', they had no lives lost in WW1, there is a plaque in the village hall celebrating the return of all their service members.
I have been lucky enough to go to Burton on the Water and it is a beautiful part of the World. I just llove Debbie's excitement in thought of driving down every road! lol.
Yes, you can get coffee in tea rooms. My preference also.
I was lucky enough to be brought up near The Rollright Stones, Stow-on-the-Wold & Moreton-in-Marsh ….my ancestors have lived in that neck of the woods for at least 300 years so The Cotswolds are in my DNA. I now live near Castle Combe. The Cotswolds are just normal to me so it’s lovely to see your reaction. Christmas in The Cotswolds is lovely….damp and chilly…..but lovely!! Some houses put a few lights out…towns do a display normally. 🧡💚
Yeah, stunning, awesome. Looks out of the window. Snow. What a beautiful part of the country. Need to go again and stay a while. Keep up the good work, we appreciate it. Great reaction as always. ❤😊
Natasha, although tea rooms might specialise in teas you can always get a coffee or a soft drink. Just like pubs, where nowadays nobody frowns if you order a soft drink.
I wouldn’t say tearooms specialise in tea. I imagine the ‘tea’ is a reference to afternoon tea because you can get a hot drink and something light to eat.
I grew up on the southern edge of Birmingham so the Cotswolds was a very short drive away, the other places within easy reach for a day in the country were the Shropshire Hills, Malvern Hills and The Wye Valley which is the location of one of my favourite places Symonds Yat.
You can get coffee in tea rooms. We're not entirely unreasonable 🙂
There's a brilliant mockumentary series called 'This Country' that shows what life in a slightly boring Cotswold village/town is actually like. I grew up just down the road from where it's based, so I can confirm that it's very accurate to real life!
That was so funny and adorable, Natasha was like an excited 5 year old running through a sweet shop seeing all their favourites all at once! 🤣
Loved this video, what a beautiful place and so much historical interest too. This is definitely going on my list of places in the UK I’ve still to see. Thanks Ladies for another great video ❤️❤️❤️
You can have coffee at a tea room, it is not frowned on but rare to happen.
I was at Birdland Park last week, meeting up with relatives . It was cold!
One place I expected them to show was Laycock. This village is arguably the best in the Cotswolds and has been featured in many films and shows: Downton Abbey, Crawford, The White Princess and Harry Potter.
An additional reason for Natasha to go is Laycock Abbey. The home of William Henry Fox Talbot (is your mouth watering yet Natasha?). You can look out of the very window the first ever negative photograph was taken of. As you enter the Abbey grounds there is a converted barn with a small museum showing the history of photography.
Both the village and the Abbey are now under the control of the National Trust and so open to the public.
This is a must for you two.
I love walking the cloisters there.
I spent my teens in the beautiful large town of Cheltenham, which is about a mile or two outside the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Much of the town has Regency architecture.
There are so many more villages, and in the rest of the country!
An omission from this list was Chedworth Roman Villa. This has quite a lot of remains, and is in a very beautiful bit. ( The Romans liked the Cotswolds too, and had a number of villa estates.)
I can't remember whether Cirencester (CORINIVM DOBVNNORUM) is in the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty or not. It certainly is a beautiful Cotswold town, with a large Parish Church, with England's first office block. ( A huge Church Porch, which was used for business.)
Cirencester was at one stage the second town in Roman Britain; there are remains of an amphitheatre, and many mosaics in the Corinium Museum.
You should take a look at this couple's vids -they are Texans but live on the edge of the Cotswolds six months of the year. They cover the area in detail, where to go and where and what to eat, and their videos are of amazing quality.
You can now buy the old red phone boxes. Tom Jones famously had one next to his pool in L A .
Loved this. How could you not be in awe of the wonderful Cotswolds. Until we see your reactions, I think we are guilty of taking our beautiful countryside for granted. I am so homesick after watching this, having moved to Canada two years ago. Please keep these videos coming and let me enjoy the beauty that is England.
My son lives in Bibury. Needless to say, he has a regular visitor !
There's a channel called 'Off Day Adventures' It's a young Floridian couple and they have just finished walking the 102-mile Cotswold Way and vlogging each day. Worth a watch if you find time. The pair are super cute and lovely humans.
The old pharmacy in Burford still has the traditional wooden drawers and shelves. You can go in to have a look - no entrance fee or purchase necessary. (I have a friend who lives in Burford and have been there many times. I have another friend who lives just a few miles south of Burford, down one of those narrow country lanes that would scare you rigid if you weren't used to them.)
Hi another good video ladies, thank you. My wife and I have visited the Cotswolds a couple of times, its absolutely stunning, every little town and village is gorgeous. Well worth a visit. Cheers, (Oh, and yes, you can also buy coffee in every tea house/cafe). 8-)
I’ll never forget the first time that we went to America for a holiday in 1986.We arrived in Florida, got ourselves settled in the hotel and ventured out in our hire car to International drive,being hungry we saw the big yellow arch of Md’s that’ll do, got our meals took them to the outdoor eating area which had a mini playground, my son who was 11 at the time struck up a friendship with a lad of about the age and were both sitting in earshot and I nearly fell off my seat when my sons new found friend asked him where he was from, when answered England,he asked my son if we lived in a castle. 😂
True story. Love you guys. 🇺🇸🇬🇧
I think the presenter is Australian. British people don’t say kilometres, we say miles. If you want to see other Cotswolds videos, look out for Magenta Otter Travels, an American who, with her husband lives in Cheltenham for part of the year.
Also, her pronunciation of Jacobean…!
I thought she was from New Zealand, but either way she did a great video.
@@lizbignell7813 Yes, the stress should be on the third syllable i.e. 'Ja-co-BE-an', not as she said 'Ja-CO-be-an'. That was very jarring, but otherwise that was an excellent video.
I love that if you were a duck you would live in The Cotswolds. I must be a duck because I live in The Cotswolds.
Lucky duck! 😊
I drove through Moreton in Marsh when visiting Batsford Arboretum one autumn (hi - tree nut here!). It’s absolutely stunning in late October/early November which is peak time for colour here most years.
Westonbirt arboretum is good too a bit further west.
Yes, tea rooms serve coffee and coffee shops serve tea. Whilst tea is very popular, coffee has recently overtaken tea as the UK's favourite hot beverage. Probably a demographic thing. Personally I love both just depends what I feel like. Check out England's oldest hotel the Old Bell Hotel in Malmesbury, owned and run by a lovely lady from Texas. (You never know she might be hiring! :) )
First she said the Cotswolds were in the South-East, which Natasha corrected, they are in the South-West, and then she said they would go North to South, and went to Castle Combe, which is in the South Cotswolds.
Oh, BTW, I don't need to go to the Cotswolds, I live there, and I adore it.
If truth be known, she is listing all the tourist traps, particularly Bourton and Stow.
Go off-grid and explore all the other little villages in the area, (and their pubs!)
There is so much to see that most tourists miss.
Bourton on the water is very picturesque but do not go in our school holidays! Especially in the summer, it is so busy it's like walking in a busy city on a week day.
I was thinking that
Natasha & Debbie, you could always get a job as house managers or house stewards in an old National Trust property in one of the villages . I think there are also some old National Trust cottages you can live in as tenants/ house managers . King Charles has got a house in the Cotswolds call Highgrove, and Princess Anne has got an estate called Gatcombe Park .
Sorry to be a pain, but Katherine Parr was not the only one of Henry VIII wives to out-live him, Anne of Cleves did too.
Love your channel and energy girls, I live about 15 mins away from all of it. Your brilliant reactions make me appreciate it all over again. Respect 🤙🏻🤙🏻
Every single American or tourist in general always misses the MAIN place in castle comb. As it’s tucked away to the side of the village. Which is the Manor House hotel ! It has absolutely stunning views in the summer and covered in leaves blooming.
I don't live in the Cotswolds but if I look out of my window, it's just across the river (Severn)! What you might not realise is the model village in Bourton-on-the-water, contains a model village and that model village also contains a model village etc.
Lovely video ladies , right up there with Marmite , Tenby , St Ives , places to visit in South Of England , and of course after my own heart Birmingum Xmas Market lol , The Cotswolds is amazing and inexpensive to visit as the Ducks will always have the Bills !!! , lol xx
Just watched two Americans walking the Cotswolds Way in 9 days, worth a watch. There are some videos of the Cotswolds at Christmas, including Kirsten and Joerg's. It does look pretty. Check out right move site to have a look at some houses and the insides and prices, which are vey expensive. I saw an article a couple of years ago which said there are quite a few Americans living in the Cotswolds, so much so , that a deli has been opened specially catering for Americans. It said that with more people working remotely these days , they can live anywhere.
Sister Boniface drama is filmed in Lower Slaughter.Father Brown BBC Series has Broadway Tower as a location for one of the episodes.
Good Morning Ladies 😀 Wow I have never been to the Cotswolds but now, I am definitely going to pay a visit. Thank you for sharing this amazing video. Stay safe and well.
Me and my partner go to the cotswolds quite a lot and never get bored, it absolutely beautiful
I live in Manchester but stopped off at bourton on the water on our way to Bath. I’m so so glad we did it was stunning and the sun was shining. An absolute must see
My family lived in Whiteshill, near Stroud, for over 54 Years and we could walk to Painswick . Now Mum is 92 1/2 and lives with me in Three Burrows, Cornwall. Lovely the country air and views.
22:27 minutes in at Stow on the wold. The church door was the inspiration for Tolkien and Lord of the rings door to the mountain.
I read about a GI who arrived in England from a south cost port in WW2, and he travelled overnight by train to his base in the Cotswolds. Upon arriving they went to bed and slept like logs. In the morning, he went outside to look around, and thought he was on a Disney set. No more comment needed.
Is that tree real? 😂 England isn't a theme park dressed up to look old for paying visitors 😄... That's a 1500 year old yew tree that was probably a Pagan rituals site before the church was built next to it. That's usually the case in most church yards.
I lived in Painswick for my entire childhood and early-mid teens. These villiages are beautiful and nice for tourists with money and transport. Sadly if you don't have those and just have to live there it tends to be a nightmare. The property is impossibly expensive, the roads and public transport are terrible, there is almost no work and flooding is frequent. Many of us growing up there referred to it as a 'green prison' and have had to move to less attractive cities. That said, there are nice towns like Cirencester and Chipping Norton which manage to be both practical and attractive and its a undoubtably a marvellous area to visit. I'll always remember a magnificent champagne afternoon tea at the Orangery at Blenheim Palace as a high point of my life. (Just bear in mind most of the locals hate you calling their home 'quaint'.)
I Imagine a load of folk would be glad to accommodate you for a holiday anywhere . The two of you are great.
Snowshill manor is well worth the visit its like an old junk shop with things on top of every surface. Farm and hand tools of unknown usage abound ( as does a small model of every hay cart style from every county of the country ) stuff is everywhere basically. The set of Japanese armour is mind blowing.
Now that was nearly to much to take in , endless beauty around every corner. I can’t imagine they put up much decoration , it would look tacky on such old regal buildings . Maybe just wreaths and garlands . Can’t wait to see Debbie driving through all these villages and Natasha knocking on doors asking for a job . ❤ And yes l have watched your short film and loved it , definitely put me in the Christmas spirit 💝🎄😍
Actually they put loads of fairy lights up in the Cotswold villages at Christmas. They look incredible. The place is totally transformed, and all the pubs have open fires - some of the finest looking pubs you’ll ever see. Everything in the Cotswolds is pristine inside and out. But you’re right that decorations are kept very tasteful - only white/yellow lights. Nothing tacky.
Also, the Cotswold towns are absolutely buzzing at Christmas with people and activity. Lots of great restaurants too, not just English food, but Indian, Thai, you name it.
I love you 2 ladies from the other side of the pond please keep them coming 💗
Another lovely video, Natasha and Debbie. Looking forward to the next one. Love to you both 🥰
Some people do put Christmas decorations all over their homes but generally it's not done.
Oh and ladies. Burford is really attractive in the summer only. It’s a little bit more modern with city shops which ruin it somewhat and the trees were all cut down few years back !!
Oh wow! You chose another one of my videos ❤☺️ Glad to see you both enjoying my guides
Hi just found you two , I'm from the UK and loved the Cotswold video , there are some beautiful places in the UK but the majority of us live in the cities and these lovely locations are out of our prices brackets, our stately homes are amazing and just beautiful, we are extremely fortunate to be able to have such an amazing history and I hope you get to visit us one day ❤❤❤
I've been to the Cotswolds many times! Bourton On The Water is my personal favourite place to visit!
Go from Bristol to Bath then up through the Cotswolds to Stratford upon Avon. A perfect trip to take over a few days.
I live in the Cotswolds myself & live near Castle Combe. It is indeed a stunning village to visit & steeped in history. I’ve also visited Bibury. Again an incredible place to visit. Famous for being used as a film location for Harry Potter. Bourton on the Water is a must place to visit.
Great video mujeres hermosas, can't wait for tomorrow's Magic Monday
I am from Yorkshire but have spent many a happy hour in all these places. I am lucky enough to have a best pal who lives in Wiltshire and all these places are easily accessible. You must watch a video on Bath, in fact you MUST visit Bath, from it's beautiful architecture to the Roman Baths, Bath Minster to Sally Lunn's tea shop. Sally was an 18thC Heugenot who fled persecution in France and set up her Bake shop selling Brioche (first in the UK). The Brioche served in the tea room is still made to her recipe. I like mine with Cinnamon butter, Her original kitchen can still be viewed. Finally for Natasha, in any Tea Room your waitress will say ' would you like tea or coffee'.
I would recommend minimum three days for the Cotswolds.
And finally the city of Bath (many on-line reviews of that place) was built with a similar stone - the main quarries for Cotswold stone are to the east of Bath.
Oxford to the east of the Cotswolds also uses stone which you'll then recognise with your trained eye.
I myself prefer Cambridge, but that's a different region, therefore using entirely different stone and building features.
Loved, loved, loved your "Are they hiring" comments!. & Don`t worry, It was totally overwhelming to me too!.
We stayed at Bourton on the water in September, it was so lovely like stepping back in time, in answer to your question about Christmas we asked and were told it is very busy. We are hoping to leave London in a few years to retire there.😊
You can buy coffee at a tea room. I don't like tea, so it's just as well.
The family that owned Sudeley Castle built a mansion called Thrumpton Hall, just outside Nottingham. They still reside there. They are the Seymours (Jane Seymour was married to Henry VIII and mother of Edward VI).
Moreton In Marsh is home of the Fire Service College. On weekday afternoons , you can usually see the columns of smoke rising from the exercise area.
I live an hour away from the Cotswolds and stay there regularly. Still don’t get bored of it. Can give you some tips if you travel this way
Because the geological formation which defines the Cotswolds extends in a swathe to the NE across to South Lincolnshire [where I live] you can see many similar Cotswold stone villages dotted about - many as beautiful, and not nearly so well known.
Loving the cotswolds i,ve been to Howorth where Bronte sisters lived but Cotswolds is still to be done ❤❤
You can get coffee everywhere, although I rarely drink it, preferring tea.
When I was a kid growing up, I used to go to the cinema about twice a week with my school friend. They used to have an A and a B film in those days, around 1972 I think , so it was quite a few movies. I digress. One of the films we watched was The Cincinatti Kid, played by Steve McQueen. For ages afterward, whenever I wanted a repeat of anything, I would say. "One more time, Cincinatti." I would love to see that video on your home town.
I'm in cheltenham cotswold. Yes its southwest lol. Burton on the water is so nice too.❤❤❤❤
Bourton on the Water model village is right behind the Pub(can't remember it's name) & it too has a model of the model village behind the model Pub & yes you can walk around the model village, it's beautifully made. There are many outstanding villages in the Cotswolds, far too many to mention, but if you ever get over here don't miss this area about 2/3 hour drive from London via Oxford..
I grew up in Stratford-upon-Avon and went to majority of these during my childhood. Bourton on the water is packed during summer with people having picknicks by the water. The water is so clear you can see the fish. Maybe do one on a reaction on Stratford-upon-Avon which Americans will probably have heard of.
We live on the edge of the Cotswolds, Bampton formerly Bampton Castle, famed as the village setting used for filming Downton Abbey. Close access to all the villages and towns of the Cotswolds. Great motorbike riding. Worth a visit for anyone.