Cirencester Travel Blogs, Travelogues and Travel Journals

The first day of summer! Or at least that is how it felt, I am spending the weekend at by brother's home in lovely Cirencester, the cotswolds. We woke up late owing to a drunken night playing cards, drinking beer and generally having a bit of a laugh and the sun was streaming into the house. Up, washed and showered, with the ballast of a good bacon sandwich inside us and off we went to exercise both hound and nephew. Down to the river and both kin and cainine went nuts in the river. The pic…

In the Cotswolds area we stayed on a dairy farm (Note: we weren't sharing bedspace with cows. It was a B&B on a house situated on a dairy farm).   From there we visited Oxford, which we loved. The look and feel of the city was great, but it was the history that captivated us the most. To think of the many great thinkers that had studied here, and the wonderful ideas that were formulated in libraries, colleges, parks and pubs. We ate in the pub where CS Lewis, Tolkien and other writ…