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Beautiful! ‘And on the seventh day God didn’t rest, he made the Cotswolds.’ That’s what my Grandmother used to say. She lived in Pershore on the edge of the Cotswolds.
Oh that’s a good one! 😉 I love Pershore! We visited there after we went to the confetti flower fields. Unfortunately, I never edited a vlog of Pershore! I really loved the Abbey though.
Another informative video. Thanks for taking the time and effort to share. Also, thanks for the tip on the Airbnb. We are finding so many cool airbnb’s around the world to stay in and we’re sure this place would be amazing. Keep having fun and safe travels, John and Bev
You HAVE stayed in some cool places! It's so fun to stay in a unique place and really absorb the local culture! I need to watch your latest video and see what y'all are up to now. Cheers and Merry Christmas! Dara
Another enjoyable vid from a beautiful part of the country.Hard to understand why your watchable professionally filmed site doesn't have more subscribers.
Well, I appreciate the compliment! I've learned that quality and effort of videos are not often correlated with subscriber count! But I'm VERY grateful for all the MOT who let this old lady tell them stories about my lovely British adventures ;-) Cheers! XX Dara
@@MagentaOtterTravels If you haven't been, yet, you should go to Burford (in the Oxfordshire part of the Cotswolds). Also Upper and Lower Slaughter - very pretty villages. Stow on the Wold is another nice place. Used to live on the edge of the Cotswolds when I was at RAF Brize Norton as a younger guy.
Thanks so much, friend! Now you know why the Cotswolds are my happy place. I always love when I have something funny or silly to share in the midst of all the picturesque beauty, haha!
Hi Dara & Ian. Love your Cotswold vid’s. Most of the walled gardens in the UK , apart from looking pretty, were designed to feed the house. During WW1 the noble homes lost most of their staff to the forces Often they had a large greenhouse where the gardener would grow the exotic fruits. A capable estate gardener could try and produce pineapples, not natural by any means in the UK. As a status symbol some of the gates would have stone pineapples as finials for boasting purposes.
Thanks so much for the bit of history and context. I have seen stone pineapples on entrance gates... I MAY have even taken a photo of that this summer. Let's see if I unearth it in my vlog editing, LOL! One of the things I love about Chatsworth House is the stories of the amazing greenhouses there... and speaking of exotic fruits, we all eat Cavendish bananas today because of the 5th Duke of Devonshire living there!
That looked so peaceful and tranquil. What beautiful gardens and you seemed to have it all to yourselves. The village looked incredible too. I can see why you like Cotswold stone villages!!! Sheep on a minivan 🤣. Even is Wales we don’t do that!!!! Glad you made it to a pub - your roast looked amazing!! 🍻
I am SOOOOOOO slow doing all my edits, but we have some wonderful footage of Ian's cousin's farm in Wales. She has sheep and they are absolutely adorable! I'll get those videos published eventally... hopefully before NEXT summer! haha
@@morningcoffeepottery5416 usually pretty good. The flowers are best in June, but not bad in July. It's unusual for it to get super hot in England, though that can happen a bit in July and August. The British school holidays are late July through August. It's best to come visit before or after that six week period. 😉
The pub has the sign ‘The wool pack inn’ in reference to the book Cider With Rosie. This book is set in a real life nearby village, in which the local pub is called the woolpack, but a few years ago they filmed a TV adaptation in Miserden and changed the name of the pub for the filming!
Oh my goodness! I absolutely love that you know why that sign was there! I did learn that The Woolpack was connected to Cider with Rosie in a recent documentary I watched. But I didn’t know the filming connection to Miserden! Thank you so much for your comment! Cheers! XX Dara
@@MagentaOtterTravels The Cider with Rosie village (where the author Laurie Lee grew up) is Slad, in the Slad valley just north of Stroud. Also really well worth a visit and in the most beautiful steepish sided valley.
What a beautiful estate! Ian nice drone shot over the church. With each video I’m tempted to book at trip ASAP! 😊 Great job Dara! ~Cara PS…my grandparents had a mulberry tree, as a child I would pick & eat the berries until my fingers and mouth were deep purple! 🤣
Wow the weather was absolutely perfect for this visit for you guys, it makes everything looks so dreamy. If only the weather were like that all the time there. Oh well even with the weather, England is still my favorite place on Earth. Thanks for sharing and giving me a little virtual visit to such a beautiful place on this cold and rainy afternoon here in Texas.
What, you mean it’s not sunny and blue skies every single day in Britain?!?! Yes, I thought it would be fun to show the sunny beautiful summer days on my Cotswolds series while we are all going through dreary cold winter!
Hi dara beautiful put together video .He i am on a damp cold winters day ,just longing for summer to come .Your videos cheer me up on these winter days.
Thanks, Dave! That's exactly what I was thinking!!! I've got loads of sunny blue sky Cotswolds footage to escape into during the coming weeks of damp cold days and long dark nights! Cheers! XX Dara
What a charming place is Miserden! How do you manage to see such popular visitor honeypots and avoid all the grockels? (BTW, I believe the tree that fascinated you is a Davidia Involucrata, popularly known as a Handkerchief or Dove Tree.) Great-looking pub grub...but no sticky toffee pudding? Thank you for another really interesting vlog revealing another corner of beautiful England I've never visited!
Miserden is actually not a very popular place…They only get about 6,000 visitors a year! We are spreading the word about this overlooked gem 💎 THANKS for identifying the tree. I’m always clueless about plants 🙄 Guess what… there was no STP on the menu! Hence our other delicious choices 😉
The rapeseed does look lovely, but it’s imported from Canada and a relatively recent feature of our countryside (it only started appearing noticeably in the 90s I’d say) and although it has a number of uses including as biofuel, it is ironically not all that good for the environment. It attracts a vast number of pests which have to be deterred with the use of an equally large number of chemical pesticides. It’s a bone of contention for the British and many people view it as spoiling - even destroying - our traditional livestock farming, replacing the tranquil scenes you love of (mainly) sheep dotted about on the hillsides with a sea of yellow that isn’t especially in keeping with our landscape.
Darn! I hate it when something looks good but is really actually bad! I hear you... we need more wildflower fields and more bees and other nice insects to keep our lovely British countryside! I'm glad to see that many people/organisations are working to preserve the landscape, and I hope the preservation efforts are successful!
@@MagentaOtterTravels aww I know. But then it is still a beautiful flowering plant. I just looked it up and apparently it is originally native to India. But I agree about preservation. I think, fortunately, we live in a country that has always taken preservation of our heritage seriously, from the natural environment to our historic buildings.
okay, the sheep on leashes... what??? I think Luddy and Weegee could use a new sibling. I bet it would be so nice and warm for them to curl up with, too!
What a beautiful place! These places off the beaten path are always fun to explore and just as lovely as the more famous attractions. I love that garden!! We saw lots of rapeseed fields too and found he color amazing. ❤️
It's crazy because we do have canola oil here in the USA, but I don't remember ever seeing those bright yellow fields in any state here! There are so many manor houses and gardens, but it's fun to find one that is both really lovely and NOT crowded!
Such an unbelievably beautiful spot. And so quiet, on a bank holiday! Looked like yous virtually had the place to yourselves. Then again, Brits, a perfect, sunny, bank hol... Of course, everyone would've gone to the beach. It probably made the news, 'covid, shmovid', there'd have been about half a dozen people per square yard on every available patch of sand. As idyllic as this looked, we can't help ourselves. Bank hol, sun's out, head like lemmings to the seaside. Likely me included :)
Oh yes, the beaches were packed that bank holiday! And I'm sure Bourton on the Water was shoulder-to-shoulder with visitors. You just have to know where to sneak away to ... and this is a great place!
I think you're right re the pronunciation, Mizzaden not Miserden. I only live about 7 miles away but I'm not exactly sure. Nice walk from Miserden via Winstone which I did this summer with my teenage son. Have you been to Eastleach Dara? It's near Fairford. It's one of my most favourite Cotswold places. It's two villages, Eastleach Turville and Eastleach Martin separated by the beautiful river Leach. They're two parishes with two medieval churches either side of the river but only about 100 yards apart so it looks like one village. There's an old clapper bridge over the river. It's so lovely and well worth a visit if you haven't been there.
We have been to Northleach, but yes, I very much want to visit Eastleach! Funny enough, we almost bought a home in Fairford. I am planning to do a video one of these days about that very interesting experience.😉 Cheers! Dara
I know, right?! Amazing that on that busy bank holiday we could wander the grounds feeling like we had the place to ourselves! Such a treat! I think everyone else had gone to the beach in Cornwall that bank holiday instead, LOL!
@@MagentaOtterTravels I am hoping it steadies again, the last two years it has been insanely busy although have noticed from October it is quieter than last year! When are you coming down? 😍
@@cornwallglory Cornwall is such a popular place for foreign tourists, who weren’t there in 2020, but then all the British tourists who normally would go to Spain or Portugal were going to Cornwall instead. I was always curious in total whether that made more or fewer visitors! As for us, I’m not sure when we are returning to Cornwall. We are starting to plan out next summer, beginning with reserving time with all of our American friends and family who are coming to visit us in Cheltenham.
The tree with the 'tissue' flowers is known colloquially as a Handkerchief Tree. I've been in the Carpenters Arms a few times and it's one of my favourite pubs of all time.
The handkerchief tree has such a logical name! If only I were a better botanist or gardener, I would know these things! I'm so glad you know the Carpenters Arms! I did like it, though we had a few others we love even more... including one that is in this coming Friday's video! And in a while I'll do a "Best Pubs of the Cotswolds" video to share all our favourites in detail. It was fun eating our way through the Cotswolds this summer. My favourite kind of research!!!
@@MagentaOtterTravels They used to have a lovely old Jack Russell terrier in the Carpenters called Billy. He had its own little bed by the bar and everybody fussed him. Sadly, he died a couple of years ago. A real little character.
Thanks for sharing this. Looking forward to the next. A big hello from Huddersfield in Yorkshire, UK. I have subscribed to help support your channel. All the best, Trevor : )
Merry Christmas Dara, Ian and family. I love your videos, I felt like it was spring, my favourite season. For a taste of English Christmas carols in Texas, please try Libera - O Holy Night.
I've watched a few versions of Libera O Holy Night this morning. Just lovely! Thanks for the reco. It might be cold and wintery and grey... but in my Cotswolds videos it will be warm and sunny for weeks to come! ;-) Cheers! XX Dara
@@MagentaOtterTravels Wow, thank you Dara for even considering to listen. I'm not a Libera promoter, I just wanted to share with you English Christmas carols. Even though O Holy Night is French, popularised by an American, lol. My favourite coral is In the Bleak Mid-winter, arranged by a chap from your other home town, Gustav Holst. Anyway before I sound weird, Merry Christmas from beautiful Benenden, Kent. X
Dara & Ian. I’m sure you are both aware that in the UK we have a vast network of footpaths that are public rights of way, even if they cross private land. Often these paths are signposted when they leave a roadway. If you can get hold of an Ordnance Survey map of the right scale then they show the footpaths and bridleways.. Paper versions are under £10 each. If you can “read” the map it’s surprising what you can see and learn.
Oh, oh, I know the answer! Because of THE CURSE! I actually filmed a vlog in Painswick on an absolutely gorgeous summer day this year... and of course, the video is forthcoming ;-) But next up is Upper and Lower Slaughter ;-)
Yes as someone said below the tree is a Davidia also known as the handkerchief tree, ghost tree or dove tree, originally from China. I feel like all it’s names are appropriate.
I can only say “ditto” to so many of the comments from your other subscribers, Dara. This was just gorgeous, so peaceful, so beautiful. I am in love with Miserden! Thank you for taking all of us along with you!! :-)
I was wondering if you were familiar with Julie Montague of the Mapperton Estate,I think that’s near or in the cotswold’s.They have a TH-cam channel that is right up your strata.✌🏼
Yes, she is so fun! I believe I've watched her on two different channels. Although lately I don't have time to watch any other channels because I'm just spending so much time editing! LOL
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PLEASE help me reach my goal of 3K subscribers by Christmas! I need less than 40 new subs. If you have a friend who loves the Cotswolds, please share this video❤... Cheers! XX Dara
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You were almost right with the tissues. This tree is called: dove-tree or handkerchief tree or pocket-handkerchief tee. 😋
I LOVE that you usually know the answer to my plant questions! And Latin questions ;-) Handkerchief tree is the perfect name!
@@MagentaOtterTravels The handkerchief tree is Davidia if you want to look into getting one.
Beautiful!
‘And on the seventh day God didn’t rest, he made the Cotswolds.’ That’s what my Grandmother used to say. She lived in Pershore on the edge of the Cotswolds.
Oh that’s a good one! 😉
I love Pershore! We visited there after we went to the confetti flower fields. Unfortunately, I never edited a vlog of Pershore! I really loved the Abbey though.
What a beautiful estate - I love the woodland walk and seeing and hearing the sheep. I love the tranquility and how green everything is 💚
Aye, I agree! That is exactly why the Cotswolds are my happy place.😍
This walk through the wild meadow is beautiful. I love when people let grow some of the grass naturally and simply mow paths through it.
Yes, the Woodland Walk was so lovely that way!!
Another charming location - thanks!
Awwww, thank YOU for clicking! You're the best!
Another informative video. Thanks for taking the time and effort to share. Also, thanks for the tip on the Airbnb. We are finding so many cool airbnb’s around the world to stay in and we’re sure this place would be amazing. Keep having fun and safe travels, John and Bev
You HAVE stayed in some cool places! It's so fun to stay in a unique place and really absorb the local culture!
I need to watch your latest video and see what y'all are up to now. Cheers and Merry Christmas! Dara
Another enjoyable vid from a beautiful part of the country.Hard to understand why your watchable professionally filmed site doesn't have more subscribers.
Well, I appreciate the compliment! I've learned that quality and effort of videos are not often correlated with subscriber count! But I'm VERY grateful for all the MOT who let this old lady tell them stories about my lovely British adventures ;-) Cheers! XX Dara
Magenta Otter Travels this is fantastically splendorously delightful, you deserve thumbs, have a wonderful day
"Yew-nique" LOL!! Brilliant! 👏👏
I swear that was a total accident! haha
my gosh, it's all such a vibrant green!
Good weather for filming! Yay!
I'd love to see and smell the wisteria on the manor house when it's blooming.
Next year we need more wisteria footage!!!
This place next to the wishing well would be great for a reading afternoon with a book. It really looks calm 📚
I agree! You need to film a "read with me" there ;-)
@@MagentaOtterTravels but it will be a little short for my next one 😉
Of course, the garden is well done....it has some magenta flowers 💜💜💜
Well yes, I am a bit biased ;-)
@@MagentaOtterTravels but just a tiny little bit 🤣
Superbly presented video. It looks a perfect place to visit!
Thanks much! Yes, I highly recommend a visit there!
Two of the three greatest puds there...the third, of course, is STP! BTW, you can NEVER have too much custard!
Yes, I have learned recently how much British people love custard! 😂
Yummy puds, my favourites - apple crumble and bread & butter
They are both so delicious! And a nice change of pace when no STP is available, haha!
@@MagentaOtterTravels If you haven't been, yet, you should go to Burford (in the Oxfordshire part of the Cotswolds). Also Upper and Lower Slaughter - very pretty villages. Stow on the Wold is another nice place.
Used to live on the edge of the Cotswolds when I was at RAF Brize Norton as a younger guy.
@@jjsmallpiece9234 I have collected footage of all of those places! The Slaughters will be Friday’s video. If I can get it edited in time!😬
Great video my friend.Great love.Thank you for sharing.good luck,,
Such a picturesque video! So many better flowers all over! The sheep as pets… how cool! Love the desserts you had! They look yummy!
Thanks so much, friend! Now you know why the Cotswolds are my happy place. I always love when I have something funny or silly to share in the midst of all the picturesque beauty, haha!
Nice Episode Magenta otter Travels. Thumbs Up! See you around.
Unleash the sheep? The hedge needs magenta flowers on it! Nice feast you have there Dara!
That feast was with my food blogger friends. We ate our way through an entire weekend together and it was FAB!!! Thanks for watching ;-)
Hi Dara & Ian. Love your Cotswold vid’s. Most of the walled gardens in the UK , apart from looking pretty, were designed to feed the house. During WW1 the noble homes lost most of their staff to the forces Often they had a large greenhouse where the gardener would grow the exotic fruits. A capable estate gardener could try and produce pineapples, not natural by any means in the UK. As a status symbol some of the gates would have stone pineapples as finials for boasting purposes.
Thanks so much for the bit of history and context. I have seen stone pineapples on entrance gates... I MAY have even taken a photo of that this summer. Let's see if I unearth it in my vlog editing, LOL!
One of the things I love about Chatsworth House is the stories of the amazing greenhouses there... and speaking of exotic fruits, we all eat Cavendish bananas today because of the 5th Duke of Devonshire living there!
Hiya. At least the clock on the Church said 4 o'clock. Stay safe. All the best to you.
Yes, she missed that one. It was accurate.
Clearly I needed new spectacles! I thought it said 3:00!
@@MagentaOtterTravels - I think that was the clock or timepiece on one of the Manor House buildings, so you're OK.
Did you say 800 acres????? Wow, that's huge....amazing!
Yes, it is a big estate!!
That looked so peaceful and tranquil. What beautiful gardens and you seemed to have it all to yourselves. The village looked incredible too. I can see why you like Cotswold stone villages!!! Sheep on a minivan 🤣. Even is Wales we don’t do that!!!! Glad you made it to a pub - your roast looked amazing!! 🍻
I am SOOOOOOO slow doing all my edits, but we have some wonderful footage of Ian's cousin's farm in Wales. She has sheep and they are absolutely adorable! I'll get those videos published eventally... hopefully before NEXT summer! haha
Nice pun!
I honestly swear it was a total accident. Glad I caught it whilst editing! haha
It made me giggle!
Wonderful! Thank you for sharing this!
Thank you! Have you been to the Cotswolds?
@@MagentaOtterTravels not yet, I think this summer. How is the weather in July?
@@morningcoffeepottery5416 usually pretty good. The flowers are best in June, but not bad in July. It's unusual for it to get super hot in England, though that can happen a bit in July and August.
The British school holidays are late July through August. It's best to come visit before or after that six week period. 😉
The pub has the sign ‘The wool pack inn’ in reference to the book Cider With Rosie. This book is set in a real life nearby village, in which the local pub is called the woolpack, but a few years ago they filmed a TV adaptation in Miserden and changed the name of the pub for the filming!
Oh my goodness! I absolutely love that you know why that sign was there! I did learn that The Woolpack was connected to Cider with Rosie in a recent documentary I watched. But I didn’t know the filming connection to Miserden! Thank you so much for your comment! Cheers! XX Dara
@@MagentaOtterTravels The Cider with Rosie village (where the author Laurie Lee grew up) is Slad, in the Slad valley just north of Stroud. Also really well worth a visit and in the most beautiful steepish sided valley.
@@garylancaster8612 we did drive through Slad, and I believe we stopped at the Lee house. But I didn’t vlog it. It is a charming little place!
What a beautiful estate! Ian nice drone shot over the church. With each video I’m tempted to book at trip ASAP! 😊 Great job Dara! ~Cara
PS…my grandparents had a mulberry tree, as a child I would pick & eat the berries until my fingers and mouth were deep purple! 🤣
I agree that and did some nice drone work on this one! 👍
And I love your Mulberry story💕
Incredible edit Dara ! Your TH-cam’s make my day !
Awww, thanks!😊
Great video! Thanks for sharing💪
Wow the weather was absolutely perfect for this visit for you guys, it makes everything looks so dreamy. If only the weather were like that all the time there. Oh well even with the weather, England is still my favorite place on Earth. Thanks for sharing and giving me a little virtual visit to such a beautiful place on this cold and rainy afternoon here in Texas.
What, you mean it’s not sunny and blue skies every single day in Britain?!?!
Yes, I thought it would be fun to show the sunny beautiful summer days on my Cotswolds series while we are all going through dreary cold winter!
that tree with all the stone work in it... so cool! I'd love to see a timelapse of that happening.
If only someone had set up a camera on a tripod a couple centuries ago... ;-)
Hi dara beautiful put together video .He i am on a damp cold winters day ,just longing for summer to come .Your videos cheer me up on these winter days.
Thanks, Dave! That's exactly what I was thinking!!! I've got loads of sunny blue sky Cotswolds footage to escape into during the coming weeks of damp cold days and long dark nights! Cheers! XX Dara
What a charming place is Miserden! How do you manage to see such popular visitor honeypots and avoid all the grockels? (BTW, I believe the tree that fascinated you is a Davidia Involucrata, popularly known as a Handkerchief or Dove Tree.) Great-looking pub grub...but no sticky toffee pudding? Thank you for another really interesting vlog revealing another corner of beautiful England I've never visited!
Miserden is actually not a very popular place…They only get about 6,000 visitors a year! We are spreading the word about this overlooked gem 💎
THANKS for identifying the tree. I’m always clueless about plants 🙄
Guess what… there was no STP on the menu! Hence our other delicious choices 😉
you had us at cute animals (and delicious food)!
Yes, this is why we are friends ;-)
The rapeseed does look lovely, but it’s imported from Canada and a relatively recent feature of our countryside (it only started appearing noticeably in the 90s I’d say) and although it has a number of uses including as biofuel, it is ironically not all that good for the environment. It attracts a vast number of pests which have to be deterred with the use of an equally large number of chemical pesticides. It’s a bone of contention for the British and many people view it as spoiling - even destroying - our traditional livestock farming, replacing the tranquil scenes you love of (mainly) sheep dotted about on the hillsides with a sea of yellow that isn’t especially in keeping with our landscape.
Darn! I hate it when something looks good but is really actually bad! I hear you... we need more wildflower fields and more bees and other nice insects to keep our lovely British countryside! I'm glad to see that many people/organisations are working to preserve the landscape, and I hope the preservation efforts are successful!
Charlie Beldam’s Cotswold Oils feature rapeseed oils in flavors that are to die for…smoked, lemon, etc. The family farms the rapeseed…
@@MagentaOtterTravels aww I know. But then it is still a beautiful flowering plant. I just looked it up and apparently it is originally native to India. But I agree about preservation. I think, fortunately, we live in a country that has always taken preservation of our heritage seriously, from the natural environment to our historic buildings.
Oh, a nut-roast....yummy!!! 😋
Just your thing! 🌰 🥜
@@MagentaOtterTravels I have to admit, that I have never tried one. But I want to!
Aw, loved seeing the pet sheep! I've never seen that before either!!
Sheep being hauled around the minivan with the kiddos! haha
Nice village !
Thanks! We loved it
okay, the sheep on leashes... what??? I think Luddy and Weegee could use a new sibling. I bet it would be so nice and warm for them to curl up with, too!
YESSSSS!!! You need a wee lamb in your furry family members.
What a beautiful place! These places off the beaten path are always fun to explore and just as lovely as the more famous attractions. I love that garden!! We saw lots of rapeseed fields too and found he color amazing. ❤️
It's crazy because we do have canola oil here in the USA, but I don't remember ever seeing those bright yellow fields in any state here!
There are so many manor houses and gardens, but it's fun to find one that is both really lovely and NOT crowded!
Yew jokes are getting better 😉👍
I swear that one was an accident! Glad I noticed it during the edit.... sometimes I'm too daft to notice!
Such an unbelievably beautiful spot. And so quiet, on a bank holiday! Looked like yous virtually had the place to yourselves. Then again, Brits, a perfect, sunny, bank hol... Of course, everyone would've gone to the beach. It probably made the news, 'covid, shmovid', there'd have been about half a dozen people per square yard on every available patch of sand. As idyllic as this looked, we can't help ourselves. Bank hol, sun's out, head like lemmings to the seaside. Likely me included :)
Oh yes, the beaches were packed that bank holiday! And I'm sure Bourton on the Water was shoulder-to-shoulder with visitors. You just have to know where to sneak away to ... and this is a great place!
@@MagentaOtterTravels stunning
I think you're right re the pronunciation, Mizzaden not Miserden. I only live about 7 miles away but I'm not exactly sure. Nice walk from Miserden via Winstone which I did this summer with my teenage son. Have you been to Eastleach Dara? It's near Fairford. It's one of my most favourite Cotswold places. It's two villages, Eastleach Turville and Eastleach Martin separated by the beautiful river Leach. They're two parishes with two medieval churches either side of the river but only about 100 yards apart so it looks like one village. There's an old clapper bridge over the river. It's so lovely and well worth a visit if you haven't been there.
We have been to Northleach, but yes, I very much want to visit Eastleach! Funny enough, we almost bought a home in Fairford. I am planning to do a video one of these days about that very interesting experience.😉 Cheers! Dara
Beautiful, can't believe how quiet that was. 😍
I know, right?! Amazing that on that busy bank holiday we could wander the grounds feeling like we had the place to ourselves! Such a treat! I think everyone else had gone to the beach in Cornwall that bank holiday instead, LOL!
@@MagentaOtterTravels ha do you think everyone from the Cotswolds piles down here too, yep you're right 😂
@@cornwallglory YES! It will be interesting to see how Cornish tourism is affected once the borders open and international travel is permitted again…
@@MagentaOtterTravels I am hoping it steadies again, the last two years it has been insanely busy although have noticed from October it is quieter than last year! When are you coming down? 😍
@@cornwallglory Cornwall is such a popular place for foreign tourists, who weren’t there in 2020, but then all the British tourists who normally would go to Spain or Portugal were going to Cornwall instead. I was always curious in total whether that made more or fewer visitors! As for us, I’m not sure when we are returning to Cornwall. We are starting to plan out next summer, beginning with reserving time with all of our American friends and family who are coming to visit us in Cheltenham.
The tree with the 'tissue' flowers is known colloquially as a Handkerchief Tree.
I've been in the Carpenters Arms a few times and it's one of my favourite pubs of all time.
The handkerchief tree has such a logical name! If only I were a better botanist or gardener, I would know these things!
I'm so glad you know the Carpenters Arms! I did like it, though we had a few others we love even more... including one that is in this coming Friday's video! And in a while I'll do a "Best Pubs of the Cotswolds" video to share all our favourites in detail. It was fun eating our way through the Cotswolds this summer. My favourite kind of research!!!
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They used to have a lovely old Jack Russell terrier in the Carpenters called Billy. He had its own little bed by the bar and everybody fussed him.
Sadly, he died a couple of years ago. A real little character.
@@jacketrussell What a sweet story! Now there is a much larger dog who definitely walks around acting like he owns the place 😉
Thanks for sharing this. Looking forward to the next. A big hello from Huddersfield in Yorkshire, UK. I have subscribed to help support your channel. All the best, Trevor : )
Hiya Trevor! Whenever I hear Huddersfield I think of Last Tango in Halifax 😂.
Thanks for your support! Cheers! Dara
@@MagentaOtterTravels Ace lol. Your welcome and i look forward to seeing more of your video’s.
Merry Christmas Dara, Ian and family. I love your videos, I felt like it was spring, my favourite season. For a taste of English Christmas carols in Texas, please try Libera - O Holy Night.
I've watched a few versions of Libera O Holy Night this morning. Just lovely! Thanks for the reco.
It might be cold and wintery and grey... but in my Cotswolds videos it will be warm and sunny for weeks to come! ;-)
Cheers! XX Dara
@@MagentaOtterTravels Wow, thank you Dara for even considering to listen. I'm not a Libera promoter, I just wanted to share with you English Christmas carols. Even though O Holy Night is French, popularised by an American, lol. My favourite coral is In the Bleak Mid-winter, arranged by a chap from your other home town, Gustav Holst. Anyway before I sound weird, Merry Christmas from beautiful Benenden, Kent. X
Mmmm custard 🤤😋
That was a LOT of custard! I've learnt you Britons love custard!!
Dara & Ian. I’m sure you are both aware that in the UK we have a vast network of footpaths that are public rights of way, even if they cross private land. Often these paths are signposted when they leave a roadway. If you can get hold of an Ordnance Survey map of the right scale then they show the footpaths and bridleways.. Paper versions are under £10 each. If you can “read” the map it’s surprising what you can see and learn.
We have done some trekking along public footpaths, but we need to do lots more!! The public footpath network is certainly a great British treasure!!!
Look at that little baby!!! Sheep??
You need a pet lamb to haul around in your minivan with you to Disneyworld! haha
@@MagentaOtterTravels lol yesssss
Painswick church in the Cotswolds has 99 yew trees in the churchyard. I wonder why they didn't plant one more to have a round 100.
Oh, oh, I know the answer! Because of THE CURSE! I actually filmed a vlog in Painswick on an absolutely gorgeous summer day this year... and of course, the video is forthcoming ;-)
But next up is Upper and Lower Slaughter ;-)
@@MagentaOtterTravels Opps, looks like I jumped the gun. Sorry :-)
@@Beejay950 don’t apologise! It’s always good to have advertising previewing upcoming content! Lol
I've never seen Emerdale, either.
We just aren’t the soap opera type maybe?
@@MagentaOtterTravels I'm not these days.
The Emmerdale Woolpack has a little less in the way of sweets behind the counter.
You act like you’ve watched the show 😂😂
Quidditch tee spotted! Are you planning January 1st around the new Harry Potter film like we are? 😁
No, I actually was clueless! Thanks for letting me know ;-)
@@MagentaOtterTravels on HBOMax. 👍
Yes as someone said below the tree is a Davidia also known as the handkerchief tree, ghost tree or dove tree, originally from China. I feel like all it’s names are appropriate.
Ooooh ghost tree! That’s a great name! 👻
I can only say “ditto” to so many of the comments from your other subscribers, Dara. This was just gorgeous, so peaceful, so beautiful. I am in love with Miserden! Thank you for taking all of us along with you!! :-)
Thanks, Bobby! It really was a place we were surprised by... and it captured our hearts as well!
Fabulous video! Loved the gardens! Did you ever find out what the white flower tree was?
Yes! Three viewers told me that it is an aptly-named handkerchief tree! Also they told me the Latin name, which I promptly forgot, LOL!
@@MagentaOtterTravels I looked it up! Meant to be very rare - only found in China & UK! 🤍
I was wondering if you were familiar with Julie Montague of the Mapperton Estate,I think that’s near or in the cotswold’s.They have a TH-cam channel that is right up your strata.✌🏼
Yes, she is so fun! I believe I've watched her on two different channels. Although lately I don't have time to watch any other channels because I'm just spending so much time editing! LOL
Yew-nique 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Oh man, that bread and butter pudding looked especially tasty! 😋
The best part was that I honestly did not even know I was making a pun when I said that! I only noticed it during the edit 😂
@@britainonabudget But did you think that pudding was creamy enough?! Lol
@@MagentaOtterTravels I think that pud could’ve used just a weeeeee bit more squirty cream 😆😆😆
@@britainonabudget 😂😂😂
I'm thinking that a sundial is only accurate one day per year.
Or more likely, I'm clueless when it comes to reading sundials. Although... having a sundial in a very rainy country probably has it's issues ;-)
Sheepdogs 😉
A new meaning to the word, eh?
The rape seed looks nice but always makes me sneeze 🤧
And apparently it is not good for sustainable environmental reasons... so perhaps I should stop praising it!
I ought to stop watching these enchanting videos - because they are making me fatter.
Yeah me too! I ate all those calories!!! 🐷