We woke up early in the morning to catch the train to Evesham.
Cotswolds is a large area with many counties and towns in it,
and Evesham's one of the few towns which had access via railway.
Bye bye.. London..
Evesham was where we stayed the two days we were there,
and even though I chose it because it was nearest to Broadway,
which was kinda like the heart of everything, [kinda]
it became endearing and felt very much like home.
[Definitely know where I'm retiring to, huh?]
We got our rented car,
and because it HAD to be automatic,
imagine our surprise when our rented car..
Turned out to be a Mercedes Benz!
[Censored for the privacy.. of something. I honestly don't know what. I just know that I should censor it. -__-]
Sweet huh?
And it really didn't cost much more than a manual one.
[God's blessing! :D]
Okay okay, going back to the whole thing,
when we got into Evesham,
we were basically kinda lost and everything.
Cause my mum's never driven in a foreign country before,
and she was freaking out..
We couldn't find much parking,
because we didn't know that the standard ones were somewhere else,
so those along the shops were reserved for the disabled,
or you could only park for an hour.
me: Mum, these are for the disabled.
mum: Let's go find somewhere else.
me: Oh look! Someone's parking there. Hmm.. They don't look disabled.
mum: Yeah.. :/
me: OH, maybe disabled means 'the elderly' too. Do you think so?
mum: Er.. Probably.
I'm quite sure that disabled ≠ elderly,
but it's quite understandable that they should park near the shops,
so I guess it's okay.
[Just one of the quirky things I discovered!]
Right!
So we finally got a parking space,
and I'll just let the photos do the talking for now.
I think it's a church..
One of them pubs/inns
See the red car? That row is one of them disabled lots.
The Almonry + Tourist Centre ..
I think it's something prisoners were held in.. Though I'm not very sure..
Beautiful, isn't it?
Guess where this leads to?
...
Aha! Gotcha! :D
[Btw, when we wanted to get in,
we had to knock and someone opened the little peephole to check us out, before we were let in..
So medieval!]
'Ye Olde Red Horse'
I will be mentioning it in other posts. :)
This was actually the market in Evesham.
Empty, huh? Yeah.. Hopefully it wasn't the main one.
After walking around,
we had lunch at this little tearoom called the Gateway.
Apparently it's been there for a long long time,
and it belonged to an abbot,
so it was really near the catheral, as seen below.
Unfortunately,
I only took the insides of the tearoom,
so here you go.
[I took it with my phone's camera,
so it might get blurry at some point!]
The pictures on the wall show the Gateway and the path that leads to the catheral,
and how it's never changed after couple of hundred years. Amazing, right?
Not sure if you can see,
but it's a certificate of honour to Simon de Montfort,
for the battle of Evesham.
