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Spent the last week relaxing and catching up on home cooked food, having coffee at Costa, reading and accessing faster internet! Managed to have some nice walks each day in the country laneways, along the banks of the Thames and in Brayfield nature reserve. Walked around windsor, Maidenhead and the tiny village of Bray where Heston Blumenthal has his 3 foodie haunts. Jenny and James came for 2 nights and we had a truly lovely dinner at The Hinds Head. Had a great day driving through the Cotswolds to Highgate Tower and the nice Morris and Brown cafe. Managed to be able to go down a nuclear bunker which was fascinating. Wound our way back through various cotswold villages and had a Pimms at the pub in Kingham which is where I took Steph, Floyd and Lucy on our first trip to England…no longer is it the quintessential English Pub but a totally and beautifully gentrified gastro pub called the Wild Rabbit. An amzing thing was also driving past and recognising the old gatehouse cottage where I stayed with Jane Manton for a night way back in July 1991…Said my farewells to the Scruffy and Apple and spent a night at Jenyy and Jame’s home in Essex before the next leg of my travels.