my birthday weekend at the cotswolds

Hello lovely friends!

We had THE best weekend at the lovely Bourton-on-the-Water.  I've wanted to go to The Cotswolds for as long as I can remember.  From pictures I've seen the villages look beautiful, the cottages so cozy and I just think its an amazing place to go and visit.

Knowing this, my lovely husband booked us a weekend away for my birthday and gave it to me, in a cracker at Christmas (making me wait until dinner and everything!).  We were staying in an apartment called The Lake House, which, as the name suggests is situated on a lake!  Not just any lake, its own private late, which you can walk around and fish on should you so wish.  It was a bit cold for sitting by a lake, it being January and all, so we just admired the lake from the warmth of our lovely apartment.

The view I woke up to on my birthday!  Not at all bad :)

One of the first stops we made after checking into The Lake House was for afternoon tea of course!

I love a good afternoon tea!  I did forget any kind of Slimming World rules this weekend :) It was quite drizzly the afternoon we arrived so we decided to get supplies (mainly wine and nibbles) and head back to The Lake House for a film.

Next day was glorious though (if  a little cold) and I really wanted to head into the village and go to the Model Village and then over to the next village which I've heard so much about.

The model village is exactly that, I miniature of the actual village of Bourton-on-the-Water!  Its a massive tourist attraction (as is the whole village) and got quite busy but we took some lovely photos and got our bearings of where we were and where we needed to go.  It was as pretty as the really thing!

Bourton-on-the-Waters Model Village is so pretty! 

After that, we put out walking boots on and headed on a five mile round trip over to Lower Slaughter. It was as beautiful and picturesque as I'd hoped.  I'm sure people thought I was weird taking pictures of their front doors but I figured they're probably used to it by now!

On the trek back we decided we'd earned a pub lunch so stopped off in a pub back in Bourton-on-the-Water to warm up by the log fire and have something decent to eat.

I'm ashamed to say that, because I'm old, I was done by the time we got back to The Lake House so we grabbed a couple of pizzas to heat up and snuggled down for a night of films.  This might sound boring to some but when you normally cant watch a film without getting interrupted by a small person, a night on your own is heaven! 

Me and my lovely handsome hubby

I thoroughly enjoyed our whistle-stop tour of a small part of The Cotswolds!  I can't wait to go back! In fact, its only an hour and a half away so I may even get my hubby to take me on a day trip one day as they do an amazing afternoon tea....definitely worth the travel :)

Thanks for reading!

Love Mrs B xx