Back to Wood Green.
What a couple of successful, fun and long days we’ve had, we feel we are all West Countried out and Emma needs us back in London, Tomo has to go to France at the last minute and Emma has a job on… a chance to play with Abigail Rose for the day is too good to pass up… so we decide to say good bye to the beautiful Newton Ferrers and Peter and Sue’s very comfortable holiday home and make our way home via Bath. I had missed seeing the American Patchwork shop and we hadn’t got near the Roman Baths, which we did want to do so off to Exeter to meet the M5 towards Bristol… that’s 119 miles (191K). We leave the West Country very much admiring it’s beauty and lifestyle, every back lane we drove along had it’s hedges just been pruned or were in the process of being pruned… I’m talking millions of miles of hedges at a bet and the farms, they all looked busy and in excellent condition, something you just don’t see in Australia with the Drought and all…it’s so much tougher to farm in Australia, all the farm areas we’ve seen in Britain make it look so easy in comparison… what did the First White settlers think after leaving England eh?
We found our way into Bath and to our last parking spot as if we were old hands at coming into town… time for Lunch… and silly to say we choose the local Turkish Restaurant LOL we are surrounded by Turkish Restaurants here in Wood Green but it is good grub and this one was excellent.
As we walk around this incredibly old and historic town we again marvel at the blasé way it’s locals seem to walk past century’s old buildings… we particularly love the white stone that most of the buildings and Terrace homes are made of… what a lovely place this is!
Old Glory was a waste of time, it’s not really a Patchwork Shop but it did have a couple of very expensive cheaply made in Taiwan Quilts for sale… the shop is owned by Swedes and half the shop sells Swedish Antiques… interesting but disappointing. I asked around for the other Patchwork Shop friends had told me about but the man at the Post Office Museum told me it had closed!
Off to see the Roman Baths… it costs £10 to go in and two coach loads of tourists have just arrived… we’ve been here twice before so decide a look at the outdoor bath is enough and head for home which is still a 4 hour drive and almost another 100 miles (106k). Thankfully most of it’s on the Motorway and David can share the driving with me… don’t misunderstand me, he’s allowed to drive on windy roads as well but if he does he and I both get fed up with me throwing up!! Ho hum!!
We found our way into Bath and to our last parking spot as if we were old hands at coming into town… time for Lunch… and silly to say we choose the local Turkish Restaurant LOL we are surrounded by Turkish Restaurants here in Wood Green but it is good grub and this one was excellent.
As we walk around this incredibly old and historic town we again marvel at the blasé way it’s locals seem to walk past century’s old buildings… we particularly love the white stone that most of the buildings and Terrace homes are made of… what a lovely place this is!
Old Glory was a waste of time, it’s not really a Patchwork Shop but it did have a couple of very expensive cheaply made in Taiwan Quilts for sale… the shop is owned by Swedes and half the shop sells Swedish Antiques… interesting but disappointing. I asked around for the other Patchwork Shop friends had told me about but the man at the Post Office Museum told me it had closed!
Off to see the Roman Baths… it costs £10 to go in and two coach loads of tourists have just arrived… we’ve been here twice before so decide a look at the outdoor bath is enough and head for home which is still a 4 hour drive and almost another 100 miles (106k). Thankfully most of it’s on the Motorway and David can share the driving with me… don’t misunderstand me, he’s allowed to drive on windy roads as well but if he does he and I both get fed up with me throwing up!! Ho hum!!
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