Getting out of London

Yesterday (sunday) was the day to hotfoot it out of London via Hertz rental car (after well over an hour's wait to pick up a car!!) We had planned to go to All Souls church in the morning and then jump on the M4 and get off at Bath (a town, not a thing you do...) for a look. But plans are for changing and after the long wait at Hertz we ended up getting straight on the motorway and heading south, and made an unscheduled stop when we saw the turrets of Windsor Castle coming in to view. It's such an imposing looking castle so gots lotsa photos, then wandered down to the Thames river to enjoy the scene ... with swans, boats, riverside walks and pubs lined along its banks.

Got back on the M4 and heading towards Bath when signs for Castle Combe appeared (a very cute National Trust village), so somehow the car just found itself getting off the motorway and following the signs to Castle Combe. We enjoyed an hour of wandering around taking photos and stopping for a drink (tea & appletise of course!) inside the very quaint village pub. We then took the country roads towards mum's cousin's house in Minehead, arriving there just in time for yummy Beef & Yorkshire pudding dinner with pavlova for dessert!

Today (monday) we have had a great day wandering around the local Somerset area with Mary as our tour guide. We have dribbled as we wandered thru the very quaint little village with its thatch roof houses of Selworthy and Bossington, pausing for morning tea inside one of the houses that doubles as a tea shop. We loaded up the calories with cream teas, carrot & coffee cakes and one called Victoria Cake. Yum!! We then headed to Porlock and its beach and snapped several more photos (we're in competition for how many we can take!!). It was then time to head up the hills to the heather and bracken and amazing views over countryside. And then back through Dunster, a market town with a castle on the hill and a lovely ambience. At one point Delwyn turned to me (Lyn) and said 'I can see what draws you to the UK' She has taken more photos than any of us I think, and that's saying something.

We've had another yummy dinner courtesy of Mary tonight, complete with lashings of clotted cream on dessert tonight, and will be heading back to London tomorrow via Wiltshire, particularly Lacock.