Monday 18 June. We picked up a car today after taking the tube back to Heathrow. It is a Citroen C3, bright orange with a white roof and black stripes so we should be able to find it in the carparks. Great little car to drive. It was rather nerve racking getting out of the airport, but I settled down fairly quickly. There are slight differences in the give way rules here, as I quickly discovered, and signs and traffic lights are not quite where I expect them to be, but at least they mostly drive on the correct side of the road. We are staying at Stretton on Fosse, in the Cotswolds, about 1 hr out of Oxford. A residential village with just a pub (The Plough), a church and a post office. The Fosse
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