Showing posts with label Tewkesbury. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tewkesbury. Show all posts

Thursday, 27 February 2014

Scenic England






Yes, England can indeed be quite a scenic place, in its own sometimes watery way. And as you can see, the sun did actually come out from time to time for me.




 


Views here are of Tewkesbury Abbey, the village of Ruscombe in the Cotswolds, more Tewkesbury buildings, and a top walker at, fittingly enough, the Walker Hall in Evesham. (I didn't notice that at the time.)

Wednesday, 19 February 2014

England's green and pleasant land

England's green and pleasant land was largely under water when I visited a couple of months ago. I understand it's even more so now. I visited Tewkesbury, Worcester, and Evesham, and found the car parks under water, bridges closed, and river walkways submerged.



I got out on a few little rambles along muddy pathways and through muddy fields, but somehow it just doesn't quite cut it any more for this Aussie bushwalker. 






















Maybe visiting England in winter was a bit of a mistake. It can be a depressing old country at the best of times, but when the full force of the wettest winter since Ethelred the Unready hits you, it's a bit of a lost cause. Nice weather for ducks, as they say.