May 22, Back to London!

Back in London (Over a month ago! See, I told you it would take me several days, now it's become several weeks!)!

On this day, we joined another tour group and left London for some sight-seeing. Our first stop was Blenheim Palace, the mansion where Winston Churchill was born. The place was grand, although not quite up to the scale of Hampton Court. There was a exhibit about Churchill that I found fascinating. I'm now inspired to read a good biography about him. My favorite story about him was how much he loved his wife. Someone once asked him what he would like to be if he was reincarnated after his death. He answered, "I would like to be Mrs. Chruchill's second husband."


Blenheim Palace was beautiful! It sat on a spectacular plot of land as far as the eye can see, with gardens! In one of the many gardens was where Churchill proposed to his future wife, Clementine.


One of the cute statutes in the garden was this little guy. His facial expression was priceless.


A little shop in Stow-on-the-Wold... This is a little town in the Cotswolds, about 3 hours west of London. Many rich people buy property out there. For hundreds of years, it's been farm lands, people still raise sheep and cultivate canola for the oil. Canola fields are spans of majestic yellow!


This old home is now a hotel and restaurant in Burton-on-the Water, a small town with a quant river running through it, also known as the Venice of England.

A beautiful home in Burton-on-the Water very near which a monumentous event occurred... to be continued.