Back to Northwood, England -- Friday July 5, 2013

You can probably tell from my recent blog postings that I'm getting tired:)  Traveling for 42 days is actually hard work.  But there are still a few areas on the list to visit.

We are heading back to our home base of our friend Jane's house in Northwood.  Although Jane has returned to her home in Orleans, she gave us a key to stay at her house.

I forgot to tell you some interesting tidbits about Northwood.  Right at the end of Jane's road is Northwood Headquarters.  Northwood Headquarters is a military headquarters facility of the British Armed Forces in Eastbury, Hertfordshire, England, adjacent to the London suburb of Northwood. It is home to three command and control functions of the British armed forces and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO); Permanent Joint Headquarters, Commander in Chief Fleet and the NATO Regional Command, Command Component Maritime.  Very interesting!

Center of town of Burford

Driving from Oxford to Northwood, we take a slight detour so that we can go thru the Cotswold area The Cotswolds are a range of hills in southwestern and west-central England, an area 25 miles across and 90 miles long. The area has been designated as the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. We went thru the town of Witney and settled on the town of Burford for lunch and walking. 

Backyard along an alley way

Burford is a small town on the River Windrush in the Cotswold hills in west Oxfordshire, England, about 18 miles west of Oxford, 22 miles southeast of Cheltenham and only about 2 miles from the
Gloucestershire boundary.





Church built in 1025

One of the first things we saw as we were walking around this town was a Church.  The church was completed in stages, but the first section of the church was completed in 1025!  Always impressive that something that old can still be standing!





The drive continues to be along unbelievable beautiful rolling hills and pasture land dotted with sheep.