Marlborough, Wiltshire

I left the campsite at noon today on what was already a very warm day. I went for one last walk before it got hot. Later in the day it got to 37C (99F) in parts of the south.

On the way home I stopped in Marlborough in Wiltshire to meet up with C again (Cherryflapjack). I hadn’t been to Marlborough in years and she showed me around. We started with lunch in St Peter’s, which used to be a church but was decommissioned in the 1970s. It is now a restaurant and meeting space for all sorts of events. The food, service and company were great, but there were all sorts of bizarre screens and systems in place to make the space ‘Covid-safe’. It’s interesting to see how different businesses are making a wide variety of different procedures in order to stay ‘safe’. I managed to get a few shots of the beautiful interior without all the extra plastic ‘furniture’. See first Extra.

We walked around town after lunch and visited just a couple of shops. Mostly we looked at beautiful architecture, flowers and charming alleyways. See second Extra for more scenes around the town. The green house in the bottom left was the childhood home of William Golding, author of ‘Lord of the Flies’.

The last Extra is of some quirky flowers on either side of the front door of a little old house. The door was open and the little old man who owned it and did the gardening seemed happy that we liked his arrangements and took pictures. His sense of humour was even more apparent as we talked with him. With our cameras out and my American accent, he thought we were tourists, and of course we were - even though C is local and I live only an hour away.

The main picture is of course the High Street of Marlborough, with its beautiful shop fronts, but in need of cropping to keep the cars out of the picture (similar to what I did in this blip of Cirencester)