Tetbury & surrounds

After Fat Duck we went on to spend a couple of nights in Tetbury in the Cotswalds. There's plenty to see in the area and it was a pretty relaxing weekend. We dug into fish and chips from the local chippie and our Fat Duck lollie bags on Friday night, then on Saturday we headed out to Upper and Lower Slaughter (two very quaint villages) and to Malmsbury.

The imposing Upper Slaughter Manor...


In Malmsbury there's a beautiful garden that's privately owned but open to the public called Abbey House Gardens which, my mum conveniently forgot, is 'home to the naked gardeners' so we got a bit of a shock when we saw the male gardener walking around in wellies, a v-necked green jumper and nothing else. Fortunately, the jumper was long enough that we didn't see anything but it gave us a fit of the giggles.

Back of the beautiful old Abbey House, built in the 1600's:


In the gardens with the abbey ruins seen at the back on the right:



The house is next to Malmsbury Abbey which was completed around 1180. Around 1500 the spire and the west wing collapsed in a storm but it's still used as a church today. This picture shows the abbey building crumbling in the background.


Nick and I enjoyed our clay pigeon shooting experience in the Cotswalds earlier in the year and thought my mum and dad might like it to. We went to a different place this time - Cotswalds Clay Shooting - and had a great time.

My dad turned out to be a bit of a natural.