Ok, so I got the weather forecast wrong! It was another scorching hot sunny day today. However, as I sit writing this blog at 11pm at night there is a mighty thunderstorm raging outside - the weather has definitely broken now!
A lot of repeat stuff from yesterday. Pretty boring for you the reader but as yesterday was such a nice day ... more of the same for us!
Started with a lazy cup of tea in bed, an omelette al fresco for brunch and a read in the sun watching the river go by! We headed off for a walk- in the other direction this time - at about 1.30. Pretty much the hottest part of this very hot day!
We walked along the river bank - more fabulous views and then did a 90 degree right turn up a footpath to How Caple Church in the grounds of a big Manor House - How Caple Court.
We had a look around - it was a beautiful little church - and then we chilled on a bench in the churchyard taking in the impressive vistas.
The walk down the hill was a lot easier than the walk up it! We got back to Brunnehilda in time for a bit of tunch and a vast quantity of drinks - beer, coke, water and tea. And some ice cream with a load of blackberries I had picked on the walk. S’funny when we’re out with Brunnehilda we eat a lot of brunch and trunch and not much breakfast, lunch and tea!
By 5pm I was gagging for a swim. The faint noise of thunder in the distance gave us the motivation to get moving. We drove about 1/2 mile along the road to a footpath bridge over the river. Here you could get down to river easily enough to have a paddle / swim. There was another family there already paddling and a couple taking their 6 (yes six!) spaniels for a swim. The water temperature was amazing. It was only about 2 feet deep even in the middle of the river. The current was scarily strong. It was very hard to swim against and answered our questions why we had only seen canoes and swimmers going down river and never up! I took a bottle of shampoo with me and washed my hair - that was a first for me. Not washing my hair - washing my hair in a river!
Once cooled down and refreshed, we headed into Ross for a bite to eat. First stop - hotel / pub fully booked. Nice chap recommended a pub down the road - not doing food. Nice chap recommended an Italian down the High Street - we got in.
And very nice Avellino was too. Real Italian staff (I think!) and lovely pasta. Kim and I had pretty much the same except mine came with fish and her’s didn’t! When we came out it had just started to rain and the sky was turning black.
We fancied a drive so we went the 15 miles to Ledbury. It’s a lovely little old wool market town with typical Herefordian black and white Tudor buildings. We had a quick window shop - the best type of shopping to do IMO and then headed home.
Two episodes tonight of The Wire and then to bed to listen to the thunder and rain. The thing about a thunderstorm in a caravan is - there ain’t no one gunna get any sleep until it moves on ...
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