The Cotswold and Warwick

Saturday we once again went to the Bible College. John spoke at 2:30 and then our friend John Stanko spoke. We spent the afternoon and evening there with John S. speaking in the evening session.


On Sunday we woke up late and decided to go to the Cotswolds. This is an area of small cottages and villages that touch into Shakespeare country. We drove through the country-side for several hours rambling through single carriage lanes. When we met cars coming our way we had to pull into the grass or mud to let them by. There are walking paths that you may take connecting some of the villages to others. You know better than to think we would do the walk.

After seeing the Cotswold area we went on to Warwick Castle. This is one of the finest examples of a medival castle existing. Part of it was remodeled used as a house in the late 1800's. We enjoyed seeing the rooms as they appeared when a young Winston Churchill visited there. We climbed some of the ramparts and one tower. (Boy, there were a lot of stairs.) Both of us were tired after this so we made our way back to Walsall and enjoyed a quiet evening.





Today we got up late again. Before leaving the area we went by to say good-bye to our friends, the Grahams. We went ahead and booked a room in Manchester, so there was no hurry to go there. We decided to go to a town called Chester; it's near Liverpool. On the way, John got a wild hair to head for the country with no designated destination. We ended up finding another castle. From there we traveled down some more small lanes and finally got back on the motorway north.


Then John saw a sign for North Wales - off we went! Jan finally got to go to Wales! And what did we do in Wales? We ate lunch at McDonald's. Yep, Mickey D's right there in Mold, Wales.


From there we headed to our hotel for the night. And now we're getting ready to leave in the morning for home. We're really anixous to see family and friends and talk to them on the phone.

Thanks for praying for us while we were gone. We really appreciate our family and friend's support. See you soon!