…….and we went to London for the day – it’s a must every 8 weeks or so for a haircut (me – not Rod!). The sun was shining and the astonishing thing was….everyone was smiling. You could sit on the tube and people would beam at you – it never happens like that in winter. Because we were in London we decided to see The Mousetrap –Agatha Christie’s play that has been running for 57 years, in the same theatre. It was great, but we had picked the ‘villain’ by half time. I guess we are less innocent in this day and age. Still it was fun, we had a nice dinner and drove home. The cool thing about London now is that we can park at our employer’s London House in Sloan Square and catch the tube.
On a completely different tack, we had been driving around Cirencester (our closest town – 3 miles away) for several months noticing signs indicating “Roman Ampitheatre”
We decided to investigate. The curious thing about Britain is that they take you so far with signage and then it completely dries up, as did how to find the “Ampitheatre”!
Then we noticed some odd looking mounds behind some houses…….sure enough, hidden down an unmarked path was this amazing ancient site. It was completely surrounded by houses, kids use it as a bmx track, people walk their dogs, yobos party in it…. but it was incredible. The main ampitheatre had a corridor thing at each end and then out of sight were these smaller sort of scooped out bits which we guessed were sort of green rooms or dressing rooms OR maybe that was where they kept the lions……who knows……..this country never ceases to surprise us after almost 2 years……still heaps to do and see. Miss you and wish you were here xxxxx
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