Kiwi-German Infusion: Easter Weekend

For Easter our friends Nick and Clare, who just recently moved to London, came to visit us. We had initially planned to go to Wales, but because we left it a bit late, all the camping grounds were booked out. England is not New Zealand, where you can just head off at short notice and still expect to find plenty of accommodation. Instead we stayed at our place and went on several day trips into the surrounding area. Here are some photos of our day trips (taken partly by us, and partly by Nick or Clare).

Day 1:
First we walked up to the Uffington white horse, which is a 110m long stylised prehistoric hill figure, cut into the grass to reveal the underlying white chalk. And then we headed into Oxford to look at its amazing buildings.

The head of the Uffington White Horse

Lindsay, Yana and Kerstin walking up the White Horse Hill

I think this is the All Souls College, in Oxford

The Radcliffe Camera (a reading room)

Hertford Bridge

Such tourists...

Day 2:
Our second day trip took us back to Lechlade, where we had been a couple of weeks prior. We had a nice picnic on the banks of the Thames river and then hired a row boat. The boat was a little hard to steer, but in the end Lindsay and Nick found an efficient method of moving forward without going in zigzags.

Clare being the oars-woman

Yana in her life-jacket after surviving the mighty boat-trip

Day 3:

Our longest day trip had us driving through the Cotswolds in the campervan. We stopped off in Bibury and had a look around. Then we stopped in Withington, where Yana had a sleep and we had a road-side picnic. We went for a walk into the four possible directions, as far as the babyphone would reach, and explored the little village. On the way home we stopped in Cirencester, looked at the church and had a drink and some chips in a local pub.

Arlington Row, a row of 17th century weavers' cottages in Bibury

Easter Sunday at the church in Bibury

A pub in Withington

Day 4:
On our last day trip we went to Bradford-on-Avon, a nice little town by the Avon river. We had a look around and ended the day with a nice meal at a pub right by the Kennet and Avon Canal.