Back to London via the Cotswolds

Posted on 2007/07/01 12:49:09 (July 2007).

[Wednesday 27th June]
We had to return our hire car in London by 7PM tonight, which gave us the whole day to gradually wind our way back. The obvious choice for a scenic route was to go by way of the Cotswolds.

So we started off with a hearty breakfast and a wander round the grounds of Salford Hall, giving Chie's family a further opportunity to get to know Mum and Keith a bit, before we all said our goodbyes and headed off.

We did what is becoming a fairly standard tour of the Cotswolds for us now - including all the usual favourites such as Chipping Campden and Bourton-on-the-Water (which actually I'm not sure if I like that much given how overly touristy it is, but it feels somehow obligatory to include it on the itinerary). We then ended up at Burford in good time for an early afternoon tea at mine and Chie's usual haunt - Huffkin's. It was very nice as ever, and despite only ordering food for 4 people (we were a party of 6) there was still far more than we could manage.

Once full up on tea, scones, little sandwiches and cakes, we then left the Cotswolds to head back down to London. It was a surprisingly easy journey in the end, and the timing worked rather perfectly. We got to our flat just before 6, and unloaded all the luggage there. Given that our flat is right on the boundary of the congestion charging zone, we the only had to wait a few minutes before we could then head over to the car hire place without having to pay the congestion charge. Chie was very pleased.

Having eaten rather a lot of rich food over the past few days, tonight everyone wanted to eat something very simple - so dinner basically just consisted of rice and miso soup with a few vegetable side dishes. It was rather nice having everyone eat dinner in our flat, all sitting on the floor around the little coffee table which is just the right height for this sort of thing - it felt very much like being back in Japan.

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