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Cirencester on Good Friday – arrived about 6pm, and had a lovely chat with our house hosts – meeting their two dogs, (who are travelling) and the cat – who is our new charge. A lovely ginger cat – who we are told enjoys a conversation – and this turns out to be true. She…

Cirencester in the morning, and we explore the lovely town centre, with its Abbey, quaint streets, and plentiful shops. Annabel wonders to the market, and I explore the outside of the abbey. It is not difficult to find the history of Cirencester, and even a quick venture inside a photography shop reveals a Roman passageway…

Good Friday arrives, and sadly we have to leave Holyhead, a sit that has become one of our favourite, not least because of our charge Oslo – he has made everything so easy, even though his running over rocks meant an unexpected trip to the vets – just to be on the safe side. Oh…

Saturday – and Annabel has the castle bug – early breakfast to beat the traffic on the Menai bridge, and we get to Caernarfon about 10:30am. Caernarfon Castle is a fanstic example of castle building, and a lot of it remains intact – it is easy to imagine living in the building during its use…

Tuesday, and the weather has turned sunny 🙂 so we decide to take the recommendation of walking from the house, along the coast path, to, The White Eagle – a local pub, which apparently serves good food and local ales. With blue sky, blue sea, a clear view of Snowdonia in the distant – and…

A bit of exploring today, as we ventured to the Menai straight – to look at Telford’s and Stephenson’s bridges. There are so many pages on the web about these bridges, that I will just share a few photos – the history, and sad fire that destroyed Sephenson’s bridge can easily online.

Trearddur bay is a lovely location to explore, with sheltered coves, easy to climb rocks, and lovely sandy beaches – the history makes it’s own tale – apparently a cemetery was situated on one of the beaches, (easy to dig I guess). Monday in Holy Island, and the house owners leave about midday – and…

Holyhead – what a beautiful location, even if the town itself is sadly showing what are now becoming the familiar signs of deprivation – like so many towns we are seeing on our tour – if the high-street is to survive, surely something needs to change! Anyway – we arrived on Holy Island, Anglesey having…

Saturday evening – no moon – we are in the kitchen, dining hut, and two odd eyes come to the window – staring in at Annabel and I – a stray had ventured into the farm and was searching around – further back in the dark, another two eyes stare – we have two strays.…

14th March, and with the return of Jolly’s owners – it is time for us to set off to the next location, which is just outside Swindon, near Highworth – in old English, Warde, (enclosure). Sir John Betjeman described Highworth – Highworth is an ancient hill top market town situated on the edge of the…