October 4

We drove around the Cotswolds on back roads. William liked the one lane roads best. Then he just had to remember to stay to the left when another car came. We only hit a stone gutter once and just with the tire. It is hard to judge where you are to the left on the very narrow two lane roads.

The Market Hall in Chipping Campden has fish scale stone shingles on the roof. It was built as a covered market for women and girls to sell poultry, produce and crafts in 1627 by the local lord of the manor.

We walked in the streets and saw some lovely red hydrangeas. All the homes are either old or ancient and built of honey colored sandstone from a quarry in the hills that we drove past.

We walked through a sheep pasture while on the public footpath in Chipping Campden. The sheep did not approach or try to lick.

We bought a beer at a bar that offered free internet, but the signal was so weak we were unable to connect. We picnicked here in Chipping Campden

St James Church has been build and rebuilt since the 12^th century and is on the site of a Norman Chapel.

I liked these walls outside the church.

William is in the stocks at Stow-on-the-Wold.

This is the back door of the church in Stow-on-the-Wold flanked by two ancient yew trees that is thought to have been the inspiration for Tolkein’s gate to Moria.

We bought ½ hour internet time at the youth hostel in Stow-on-the-Wold as we needed to check email. William’s email address was lost when we unthinkingly cancelled our DSL. He has started a new Yahoo address and has sent it to a few people. My hotmail is more portable and permanent. Good thing that is where all the bills are sent. We have been anxious to check email as we have had trouble with the boxes we were sending to Belgium. They were returned after we left. The post office refused them saying that the international 20 lb flat rate applied only to some tiny (size of 2 reams of paper) boxes that you could pick up at the post office. Bill read the regulations on line to say that boxes of other than the PO size were OK, they just had to be under 20 lb. Such a much.