Day 26 Bank Holiday Monday
26 August- Wellesbourne Markets
What trip to the UK could be complete without a trip to Wellesbourne Markets at the local airfield, stuff everywhere to buy and we did, hats, 200ft hosepipe, sandals and others………
While there a WWII Hawker Sea Fury took and and did a few circuits, all very exciting……
A few people attended…
Thought we could try this layout at the markets!
Hawker Sea Fury
Pimms at a local hostelry
Day 27 : ? Nothing Happened
Day 28 : Wednesday - Southsea
A couple of days on the south coast to see niece and great nieces in the Portsmouth area. We revisited Southsea which has some great memories for us, a walk over the common, along the front and upto the pier, passing a couple enjoying a portable BBQ……..
Southsea Pier
We stayed here in 2006 with Mum and Dad
Day 29 Thursday - Lee on Solent
Sue and Alan arrived today meeting at Lee on Solent for coffee and cake. There is a local airfield nearby and low and behold we had been there two minutes and a Spitfire took off and circled about. Turns out you can have a joyride in one from £2,750……..! In case you want to book go to https://www.boultbeeflightacademy.co.uk
Isle of Wight, Cowes in the distant
Oh the sound of that Merlin ………..
Lilia and Elise
Elise taking after her great uncle
Day 30 : Fleet - Mapleduram
Homeward to Coventry with a long visit with Mike and Ro in Fleet, longstanding friends of Leslie and Penny with a lunch date at the local Queens Head pub
Then by chancte by not programming in motorways into the satnav we arrived at Mapleduram in Oxfordshire. This was a destination Penny had written in her little book of places to visit, you probably have never heard of it but it was the location for the movie, “The Eagle Has Landed”. The mill race, church and Mapleduram House all featured as locations, unfortunately apart from the church the other two have been fenced off for private tours so the pictures are taken through it.
The old mill where the German saved the children and tore his uniform
The church where the hostages were held
Michael Caine was here : not many people know that!