We had a late start as we slept in. Well what did you expect, we are on holiday.
A foggy morning once again but the promise of a very nice day and a forecast temperature of 26C.
Di did a bit of washing while I mowed the lawns for Glynn.
Mid morning we drove to one of our favourite Welsh villages where Di spent her holidays when young. The village is Montgomery which is a town in the Welsh county of Powys. It was previously the county town of the county of Montgomeryshire. The town lies about a mile from the English border in the Welsh Marches.
The center of the village sits in a bit of a dip and slopes up to the hill at the back of the village, and hill top castle, behind the old town hall.
In the other direction the village slopes up towards the parish church of St. Nicholas.
We had a very nice lunch in a little cafe just out of picture on the right, before continuing our wandering
This photo gives some idea of hilly nature of the village.
The Old Bell Museum. Di and the lady sitting outside found that they remembered some of the same people from the village. Di used to holiday here with her Mom and Dad, staying in the game keepers cottage attached to the Lymore Estate, alongside the Offas Dyke Path.
If you look closely at the above house it can be seen that the lower right hand window has been bricked in but painted to look like all the others.
The sunken pathway up to the doors of the beautiful St. Nicholas Parish Church.
I always get the feeling that this would be a nice village to live in.
From Montgomery we drove on to Bishops Castle and all the beautiful countryside in between. We managed to rediscover a very old property that used to belong to old friends and which we house-sat some years ago. This very old property was misnamed New Hall and unfortunately has been turned into a horse center. I wonder how the new owners get on with the ghost, because there definitely is one, but that's another story.
On the way back to Clive we tried the local fish and chips in Wem where we found this open version of a Nissan Figaro for Alex.
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