Looking around Wootton Wawen and Day Trip to Stratford Upon Avon

Thursday 28^th May

We are staying here today.  There is a train station in the village so we walked up to see how far away it is and it is about a 15 minute walk from the canal.  

We walked back up the road to the Saxon Church, St Peter’s and went inside to have a look.  It is really interesting and there is an exhibition explaining the history of the building.  We had a walk around the outside.  Next to the church is Wootton Park, there is a 16^th Century Farmhouse which does B&B and weddings, events etc.  Also in the grounds are lots of park homes and a village shop and Post Office.  We had a walk around there then back to the boat and chilled out for the rest of the day.  We are staying here again tomorrow.

Friday 29^th May

It was pouring with rain when we got up this morning and we are going to Stratford today on the train so I was praying it would ease off.  Luckily my prayers were answered and by the time we were ready to leave the boat, it had eased off.  By the time we got to the train station it had stopped and the sun had come out.

Wootton Wawen is a request stop, so when we saw the train coming, Kev put out his hand to stop the train, he had always wanted to do that, it seemed funny stopping a train and we were a bit apprehensive in case he just roared by but no, the driver saw us and stopped. 

 

It is only about a 15 minute train journey and then we were in Stratford.  The station is not far from the main shops, its just a short walk.  We had a wander around the shops, then walked down to the basin and the River Avon.  Went for a coffee in the café in the park on the banks of the River Avon.  There was a few heavy rain showers.  We decided to go for some lunch and found a Thai Restaurant called the Giggling Squid where they do Thai Tapas and it was really delicious and very reasonably priced.

Walked back to the train station, when our train came in, we made sure we told the driver and the conductor that we wanted to get off at Wootton Wawen, we didn’t want the train whizzing past with us on it!  Thankfully, the train stopped when we got there.  We walked back to the boat and got back just in time as about 5 minutes later, there was a heavy shower.    Late afternoon, the rain went over and it was a nice sunny evening.  Hopefully it will be a dry day tomorrow.