August 3, 2004 Abbey at LaCock and Castle Combe

Today we awoke to grey skies and impending rain, so we decided to stay close to home. We ventured out as far as the Abbey at Lacock (about 10 miles away) where parts of Harry Potter were filmed. The village there was exactly what you would expect it to be...very old and unchanged...cars looking very out of place. We walked through the village and looked in the Village Church. Gravesites there dating back as far as 1600. Next we went to Castle Comb a very small neat little village about 10 miles further on. I have attached pics of the village. Very neat tidy little village with the old 14 and 15th century building lining the roadway. Cars, again, look very out of place here. After viewing the pics myself, they don't do the place justice. The antiquity of the buildings is not as apparent in the pics as in the real. On to Bath..the spa town...and the ruins of the old Roman baths. Began raining here...traffic was overwhelming...no pics..sorry. We will go back another day.That catches you up to date..

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