Shakespeare Country

Immersed ourselves in Shakespeare today. We went out to Anne Hathaway's house at Shottery first. All the houses are so different from home. Next to Anne Hathaway's was another house with a beautiful cottage garden.

Having the car is so good, we can wander where we want. Stratford-upon-Avon is a beautiful place, with the canal, lovely park and the streets are full of flowers.

Just to make the day we decided to take off for the White Horse Hill at Uffington, and then would stay the night at Winchester. The image on the hill could be a stylised drawing of a dragon and dates back to 1000BC in the late Bronze Age.

Arrived in Winchester to find it pretty booked out, narrow streets with cars parked everywhere. Thank goodness for mobile phones, we managed to find a lovely place just out of Winchester.