12:21:03 I'm always a bit self conscious about filming video inside pubs, so I experimented with this not-really-very-stealthy hands free solution. | 12:21:51 Here's some video of me testing this way of taking a video. | 12:38:47 Delighted to be back at the beautiful Bell inn in Aldworth. | 12:52:56 The frontage of the Bell. What a handsome pub. |
12:53:28 Me outside the Bell. | 13:57:21 After the Bell I decided to go for a walk around the hills above Streatley. | 14:11:17 One of the turf mazes on Streatley Hill. | 14:11:22 |
14:11:31 | 14:26:23 I'm no good at identifying birds but I always tend to assume anything that looks like a bird of prey anywhere along the Ridgeway (or surrounding countryside) is a Red Kite. | 14:26:25 | 14:26:31 |
14:26:33 | 14:35:39 The view down to Streatley from Lardon Chase. | 14:42:10 | 14:42:23 |
15:06:21 Quick pint by the fireplace at the Catherine Wheel (alas the John Barleycorn is currently closed) before getting the train back to London. | 18:17:26 Stopped off at Huntsworth Wines in Kensington on the way back (because it's sort of near Paddington) as I'd seen on the web they stocked the same bargain Burgundy I had found in a shop near me but a better vintage (this is 2017, which I almost always prefer over 2018 for Burgundy). |