A cottage in Rockingham.
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While Gavin innocently sipped beer, the Insect Armies descended on the Normanton Park Hotel...
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... Spider Squadron, 103rd Division deploying ...
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... Beetle-cavalry Horsefly Battalion ...
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The aerial soup of flying insects were distracted briefly by Gavin's favourite party trick and Chantal was able to take a nic...
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The insects discovered Gavin's deception so proceeded to devour him, fortunately allowing one more beautiful photo of the chu...
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Chantal with bicycle. Miserable.
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Gavin with bicycle. Happy as Larry. Could it be because he's a cardboard cut-out?
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Lunch at the White Horse in Empingham.
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A rare happy moment between exhaustion and bugs.
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Gavin about to undergo an amazing transformation...
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...into Wonder-Schaul!
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A moment of bliss and relaxation, listening to rustling leaves. In other words, not cycling and not being plastered with fly...
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Impatient to move on.
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Hand-model Gavin concedes one rush photo.
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Barely escaping starvation after a long traffic jam near Warwick, we alight at the Mary Arden Inn in Wilmcote and guzzle pota...
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Stratford upon Avon, largely spider and mosquito-less.
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The Garrick Inn, which we recommend.
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Another old building.
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Shakespeare's birthplace.
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To remind us where we were.
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A proper cream tea at the Mary Arden.
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A few hours later...
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Still carrying, on her arm, testimony of the vile Rutland insects.
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The Romeo & Juliet Suite at the Mary Arden Inn.
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Palmer's Farm, next to Mary Arden's Cottage.
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An owl.
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An owl.
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An owl.
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Warwick Castle.
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Couldn't be bothered to pay £29 to get in, so we consoled ourselves with admiring the gate.
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Jacket potatoes and chips at the Mary Arden.
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The view from our room.
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Anne Hathaway's cottage in Shottery.
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The Bard's birthplace, from the back.
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And from the front.
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In a Christmas decoration shop on the 31st July.
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Ice-cream or moustache-wax?
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Crazy Chicken (TM)
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Hall's Croft
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Berries! A tree!
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Arboreal Zimmer Frame - such an old tree that it needs brick and iron supports.
Posted: 2004-07-31