Out and about

Good old English tea room, Epworth

Sandiacre church this morning as we set out on our walk

Buxton Dome

Buxton Georgian pavilion

Gargoyles

Victorian bathing contraption at the spa of Buxton

Epworth Old Rectory

snack time in the Nottinghamshire countryside

butterfly on elderberry

Malcolm on the track

This week we have been out and about around the area.  Firstly we went into Derbyshire to Buxton.  This town has some amazing Georgian and Victorian architecture.  In its day it was a spa town that rivalled Bath.  The baths were built on the remains of those that had been there since Roman times.  There is a building with an unsupported dome that is bigger than St Pauls!

Another day we went into north Lincolnshire.  We went to a village called Epworth where we got a tour around the Old Rectory which was the childhood home of John and Charles Wesley.

Today Malcolm and I went on a 6 mile walk (3 and 1/2 hrs).  The weather was nice and sunny for a change.  We set off from home, walked across the meadows to Sandiacre (the church in the photos) then around some fields and villages - the first part in an area I'd never been before, though the second half was on familiar ground.  Then we went out to lunch with my sister Barbara.