Blogs from Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Hello everyone We have been out and about again,making the most of our last days here in Wiltshire. We visited a village called Cirencester not far from where we live,they were having a car fair which we enjoyed. And today we went to village called Marlborough ,which has the widest rd shopping area !!!which was great. And on the way home we passed beautiful fields on the downs This is our last blog for Wiltshire,I’m so pleased we seen another part of UK. On Wednesday we travel to Suffolk about 198 miles. Enjoy the photos... read more

Wiltshire is a beautiful county indeed. Vast expanses of rolling hills covered with lush green vegetations and dotted by beechtrees on top of the hills is a lovely sight to behold. The county is full of country parks for wonderful walks. One such area is Marlborough downs. I took all these images on a day when it snowed a bit. The snow adds great contrast to the backdrops of beautiful landscapes speckled with grazing lazy-horses. Wilthshire has its own peculiar landmarks - the White-horse trails. These are painted white horses on top of the hill in nine different places. Marlborough downs is one of them. The rest are as below which I copied from one of the White-horse trail websites - The ALTON BARNES HORSE The BROAD TOWN HORSE The CHERHILL HORSE The DEVIZES HORSE i ... read more

We headed out from home at 18:00 Friday. The M4 was totally blocked. We left at Reading and headed up the A4, making Marlborough at around 9:15. We were later told that shortly after we got off the M4 the police closed it. Having missed dinner at the Sun Inn we headed out for Italian food. I had a stinking cold. Back in the room, discovered I had bought the recharger for the Eee but not the bit that adapts it for use with UK plugs. Today, after an excellent breakfast, we headed for Savernake Forest which is truly spectacular. We just wandered around, looking at ancient oaks and beeches. Some of the more ancient oaks have names and others do not. It was warm and sunny and still. We hardly saw anyone. I would highly ... read more

I can't believe it... I am sitting in my house writing this! That is the most wierd thing ever! We left Auckland at around 9:45pm, and we had the worst seats on the plane. We had the two seats right in the middle of the plane, which means we had a person on each side of us, so it was not very easy to keep getting up and walking around... It wasn't as bad as I had expected. I watched a couple of movies, and we were served dinner which was quite nice - I had roast beef, kumara and peas, we also got ice-cream for pudding, which was nice. I slept for a little while until they turned on the lights and served us with hotcakes for breakfast. They were really tasty! We landed in ... read more