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smallhobbitI would just prefer not to have to drive miles through it. Yesterday there was a serious accident on the M5, which meant the motorway was closed and everything was shunted onto the A38. For the most part this is a single carriageway road, so you can imagine the delays caused by shunting 2 to 3 lanes of motorway traffic onto one lane. This was my way to work and because the next means of transport west is the River Severn I had to go east and work my way through. The journey normally takes half an hour, yesterday it took me an hour and a quarter, but at least for the most part I was moving.
It really is very pretty in the Cotswolds at this the moment. After all the storms the sun was shining, the trees (which were still standing, we didn't have the problems the south-east of the country faced) looked lovely in their autumnul colours, the towns and villages are quaint. Apart from Stroud, the centre of which is mostly roundabout.
I ended up driving very close to where we used to live and whilst enjoying the countryside I was so glad we had moved. The roads are narrow, the towns have limited parking, so driving down some of the roads is a bit like a slalem with the added obstacle of vehicles coming the other way that seem to expect you to leap into a ditch as they approach.
And whilst the people in the towns and villages may complain about the state of their town/village, they don't really want it to change. And that is why I'm glad we left. I suppose it is a natural reaction when threatened to look inwards, but it seems to me that this tendency is becoming more marked, and unfortunately if it continues then these villages and towns will die and all that will be left is a quaint place for the walkers to visit.
It really is very pretty in the Cotswolds at this the moment. After all the storms the sun was shining, the trees (which were still standing, we didn't have the problems the south-east of the country faced) looked lovely in their autumnul colours, the towns and villages are quaint. Apart from Stroud, the centre of which is mostly roundabout.
I ended up driving very close to where we used to live and whilst enjoying the countryside I was so glad we had moved. The roads are narrow, the towns have limited parking, so driving down some of the roads is a bit like a slalem with the added obstacle of vehicles coming the other way that seem to expect you to leap into a ditch as they approach.
And whilst the people in the towns and villages may complain about the state of their town/village, they don't really want it to change. And that is why I'm glad we left. I suppose it is a natural reaction when threatened to look inwards, but it seems to me that this tendency is becoming more marked, and unfortunately if it continues then these villages and towns will die and all that will be left is a quaint place for the walkers to visit.
