Pauline
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After living in the Cotswolds for five years we moved to Dorset last October. But this week we are back in the Cotswolds to meet up with some ST/SE friends, @Shannon , @Chris and @Colleen , who are in London for a couple of weeks but wanted a weekend in the Cotswolds to go to Giffords Circus.
It seems strange to be once again in a vacation rental in the Cotswolds, like we did for many years before we moved here. We are all in Blockley, near Moreton in Marsh. The circus is nearby at Daylesford Farm.
Giffords Circus is a local circus that is not your typical circus. They perform in summer on village greens around the Cotswolds. It is small - 400 people in a tent - and run in an old fashioned way.
The weather has been a bit dreary lately but as we picked S, C and C up at the train station, the sun came out. We sat out in the narrow garden of the terrace house we rented.
The circus was excellent. Each year they do a story. This years was set in the US Wild West, in pioneer times. The plot was fun and the circus acts were great.
The next day (today, Sunday) @jonathan and Philippa joined us in the even stronger sunshine for an outdoors lunch before S, C and C headed back to London. Those of us who remained did a fabulous afternoon hike from Blockley to Batsford and back (2.5 hrs).
The Cotswolds are at their finest now. The hedgerows are in bloom, flowers everywhere, so beautiful.
Some photos from our walk.
It seems strange to be once again in a vacation rental in the Cotswolds, like we did for many years before we moved here. We are all in Blockley, near Moreton in Marsh. The circus is nearby at Daylesford Farm.
Giffords Circus is a local circus that is not your typical circus. They perform in summer on village greens around the Cotswolds. It is small - 400 people in a tent - and run in an old fashioned way.
The weather has been a bit dreary lately but as we picked S, C and C up at the train station, the sun came out. We sat out in the narrow garden of the terrace house we rented.
The circus was excellent. Each year they do a story. This years was set in the US Wild West, in pioneer times. The plot was fun and the circus acts were great.
The next day (today, Sunday) @jonathan and Philippa joined us in the even stronger sunshine for an outdoors lunch before S, C and C headed back to London. Those of us who remained did a fabulous afternoon hike from Blockley to Batsford and back (2.5 hrs).
The Cotswolds are at their finest now. The hedgerows are in bloom, flowers everywhere, so beautiful.
Some photos from our walk.