Last weekend, we went to visit my mum and step-dad in Gloucestershire. This was a first longish trip in Herman and a welcome return to the place where I grew up. All very peaceful and rural and all that.
The hills were especially welcome - living in London, and Amsterdam before that, left me feeling like everything is flat.
It was also nice to be driving in my own car - my first car - around the place where I grew up. I recall being driven and driving as a learner way back, but this was different.
Also different was the roads. Being back there after twenty-three years, I felt like I’d never left, until I suddenly came across a mini-roundabout, or a junction where there was none before.
Unlike London, Gloucestershire was very wet last weekend, but there were some dry moments and we got to go for walks in the hills. I even dusted off my old walking boots for the occasion. I made it up some steepish gradients and didn’t die. Bonus.
Some pics of my childhood stomping ground here.
Anyways, we decided to continue the country theme by spending the next bank holiday in the Lake District. Neither of us have been there before so really looking forward to that. Only a few weeks to go 
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Wow. Have not seen pics of Cam Peak and the Longdown in sometime.
Nice car by the way.
From: An old distant friend!
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