Home run

Once again the day started sunny, but after the disturbed night, we treated ourselves to breakfast in the cafe. Amazingly the Haven stay worked out at £14 for the night for the two of us, including a full English breakfast with coffee and toast!!! Had a look at the two fishing lakes (for future reference) and a walk down the promenade just outside the site, to the Yacht club. The tide was out which means Burnham is just one big expanse of mud flat - not very attractive.

By lunch time we were north of Bristol, still sunny, so decided to find a NT place to stop for a couple of hours and Newark House near Wooton under Edge seemed to fit the bill. Turned out to be an interesting old hunting lodge on the southern edge of the Cotswolds with uninterupted views down to the Mendips. It is still lived in too and has recently been used for filming some of the TV series 'Tess of the D'Aubervilles' including the final episode murder scene on Sunday. The northward journey home thru Stroud and up the A46 is classed as a 'scenic route' and it certainly was, with the leaves just turning golden in the afternoon light. Not visited this part of Gloucestershire before but certainly worth returning again sometime.

Arrived home at 7.00pm after 18 days away, which included most of this years summer :-)