Thursday 14th September Chepstow to Little Malvern

Russ and I left Chepstow and drove quickly down through Cardiff to Barry in Wales where we met Joy from Recipezaar (an international recipe club I belong to). We spent 3 hours at her home and really enjoyed meeting her. She is a very interesting lady who has lived and travelled to lots of places in the world. We were sorry we couldn't accept her kind offer to stay with them, but were starting to realise our time was very precious and we needed to keep moving if we were to get a good look around the south at least.

We left Joy's at 2 pm and headed to Little Malvern and a great little B&B in an old coach house. As it was only 4.30pm when we booked in we decided not to waste the last of the afternoon sittin in our room so took a drive around the area. After driving through some beautiful villages and countryside we decided to stop for a drink at The Pheasant-a lovely looking pub with a big car park! The boy behind the bar (David) was from Smeaton near Ballarat and the publican of 8 weeks (Caroline) was from Ocean Grove. Our plan to stay for 1/2 an hour went out the window fast as we sat there talking to them and the locals for 2 1/2 hours!

We ate dinner at a Thai restaurant across the road from the B&B and voted it almost the best Thai we have ever eaten.