Easter Weekend

One of the best things about living here, is the abundance of "Bank Holidays". My vacation days increased from 20 to 25, and my paid holidays went from 3 days to something like 12.

Britain's idea of Easter Sunday turned our weekend into four days. Good Friday and "Easter Monday" gave us a nice long weekend with which to travel - and use of the car was a great reason to drive to the 'country'.

TJ found a great hotel in the quaint town of Cheltenham,
called "32"

We left on Saturday and went to Stonehenge first. It's about an hour and a half drive out of London, and while fascinating, it's the kind of thing you see and say, "'huh, there it is.....ok, let's go."


The rest of the weekend was spent having a 'proper english lunch' at a pub further out in the country and investigating another town called Stow on the Wold. (see 'rest of pictures' link below)

One of the best moments of the weekend, came on Easter morning. We went for a walk after breakfast. After being out for about 15 minutes, and walking away from the center of town, we started hearing trumpets. It sounded a bit like a high school band practicing. We saw a large church, and thought that there must be musicians outside - but the music kept shifting direction until we got right in front of the church.


There were two sweet older ladies, handing out programs from baskets with ribbons....people were arriving to the chapel on foot, and being dropped off in the front car port....and the musicians, were on the roof of the church, waving down to their families. We walked on, with the music heralding our journey, and annoucing Easter across the town.

You can see the rest of the pictures from the weekend here.