Blenheim and the Cotswolds

Yesterday, we went to Blenheim Palace, ancestral home of the Churchills and birthplace of Winston Churchill. In the afternoon we visited three villages in the Cotswolds, the hilly (wold is a hill) triangle between Stratford, Oxford, and Cheltenham. The area is filled with picturesque villages with stone houses with stone roofs. The area was historically a major center of raising sheep for wool. Today it is filled with tourists, including us.

Kris was pleased to see this bottle with her ancestral name
on it - she didn't drink a drop of it

Amy, Jeff, and Kris in front of Blenheim on a cool and breezy morning.

Kris posing with a familiar grotesque in the gardens at Blenheim

Kris and the Ringers (minus Hansen) at the
ancient market building in Chipping Camden

A volunteer spot of brightness, cheering passersby
from the wall of a home in Chipping Camden

Kris, Eliza, Amy, Erika Jackson, Bethany Pinnock,
and Emma Barton on the bridge at Bourton on the Water

The Santiagos, who leave for home today, in the beautiful village at Bibury

Amy and Eliza at Arlington Row in Bibury

Stephen and Ann, and Hank and Colette will be here at the Centre shortly and we will be off on some adventure, unknown right now, but which I will blog later. They all arrived yesterday.

OXO

D.