Abingdon Last weekend, on our way to mall crawl Westgate Oxford, we had a quick stopover in Abingdon. Abingdon-on-Thames has a strong claim to be England’s oldest town--object evidence includes tools such as hand axes from almost 400,000 years ago. Wow!! This market town is probably best known for the MG car factory, which opened in… Continue reading England’s Beautiful Villages – Abingdon and Farringdon
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England’s Beautiful Villages – Castle Combe and Lacock
Castle Combe It's 3 o'clock in the morning when the alarm goes off. Time for our first weekend adventure! Off to explore and snap two little towns: Castle Combe and Lacock. We need to be there by sunrise, which is at 4:50 AM. On our way there my husband comments that it looks a bit… Continue reading England’s Beautiful Villages – Castle Combe and Lacock
England – for a Year!
Last year (2018) we had the privilege and pleasure of spending 6 months–from April to October–in the UK for my husband's work. Being South Africans we were a little apprehensive about the rain and cold weather but, lo and behold, 2018 was the joint hottest summer on record for the UK as a whole, and the hottest ever for England, so acclimatising… Continue reading England – for a Year!


