26 March 2016. Stow-On-The-Wold

Hi,
On March 22, we said good bye to Joan and Tom in Linesville(difficult to leave them as they always make us feel so at home with them) and headed to Andrews Air Force Base to begin our adventure with George and Pat to Europe.    We had great billeting at Andrews Air Force Base.    On the 23rd March, we took George's car to the long term parking at the military terminal where we parked it for the 3 months we will be traveling.   We took a cab to Washington-Dulles Airport.
We left Washington Dulles on Wednesday evening and arrived at Heathrow  in London Thursday morning about 7 AM.  British Air is a great airline to travel on.   It took us about an hour to go through and have our pass ports checked and then on to pick up our car.  Pat and George and Tom and I settled into our car and all the luggage fit in the trunk for our trip to Stow-on-the-Wold in the Cotswolds about 2 hours or so from London.
It was decided that Tom would drive while here in Great Britian and Ireland as he makes driving on the "wrong side" (by American Standards) look easy!
We arrived at "Kate's Cottage" here in Stow to find the lovely little cottage that we had rented to call home for the next two weeks. We got settled and walked just down the street to the square and had a look about.  Had a lovely lunch at a little cafe and did some grocery shopping.   We decided that would have an early evening as all did not sleep on the plane.
Friday, we took a ride to Burton on the Water  and Burford.   It was a perfect sunny day to walk around Burton on the Water.   There were lots of families having picnics at the park and milling around.    We then spent time at St. Michael's Anglican Church in Burton that was built in 1721 and had fish and chips before we headed back to our cottage.    Saturday, we slept in again and then went to Bristol as George was having some issues with his I PAD.     Today it was pouring rain all day.
We drove down to BATH......since it it holiday here too....many people and cars...  We spent about 30+ minutes trying to get in and out of a car park so decided we would come back to BATH during the week.......
I have put a first load of wash in the WASHER/DRYER here in the cottage....will see how that goes.
We are to have rainy weather the next week but we brought our raincoats and are with our dear friends so what could be better.
I still need to figure out how to add pictures.....

A JOURNEY IS BEST MEASURED IN FRIENDS , RATHER THAN MILES~~Tim Cahill

We are keeping you all in our daily thoughts and prayers as we travel.   Please keep up in prayer and good thoughts for safe travels for us and those who pass us by.
Love and Hugs,
God Bless
Tom and Maryann