The Cotswolds

We're staying at a B&B in Bourton-on-the-Water, a couple of hours west of London.  It's one of the best known villages in the Cotswolds area, and has filled up each day with tourists and day-trippers who come to wander around, eat lunch, and take photographs.   The little River Windrush flows through the middle, about six inches deep and with tiny bridges crossing at several points.

Almost every house is made from the distinctive honey-coloured sandstone, with a slate roof, and its all very neat and tidy.  It has been very busy each day, but almost everyone leaves for home in the afternoon and it's quiet again.

Lunchtime in Bourton-on-the-Water

We did the twenty-minute walk along paths through the fields to the next village, Lower Slaughter, where there is also a little river, The Eye, and an old mill which no longer operates but is a little shop, cafe, and museum.

The mill at Lower Slaughter, on the river Eye.

Coffee beside the millpond

There is an Upper Slaughter too - they are collectively referred to as "The Slaughters".