Gloucestershire

We had a lovely weekend in Gloucestershire, fortunately the weather was really kind to us with no rain for the 3 days we were away,  it was a little chilly - but then it is still the middle of April!

We visited Bristol for the day,  drove over the top of the Avon Gorge via Clifton Suspension bridge and then drove along the bottom of the gorge road,  it is very  picturesque and interesting.   We then went to Harbourside and found Bristol Packet Boats.   They had 2 trips running,  a 45 minute harbour tour or a longer trip to Besse Tea Gardens -- this one was an hour there, an hour stop at the tea gardens and then an hour back,  I quite fancied the Tea Garden trip,  but as it wasn't the warmest of days  we thought it could be pretty cold.   In the end the 45 mins harbour trip was enough and it was really interesting.   I like doing these type of tours as usually you will discover something interesting that you only find out on tours.

One of the many restaurant/bar boats.

Some of the many colours of Bristol

The lovely Mr Milly chilling on the boat - or Mr Milly chilled on the boat!!

For lunch we visited Za Za Bazaar,  this restaurant is capable of seating 1000 people and it certainly was different!  You are given a map when you arrive with the locations of the different food stations with the instructions to retain your cutlery and the staff will keep clearing your plates.  Then you wander around the different food stations and help yourself to what ever takes your fancy!  The range of food on offer is mind boggling,  Indian, Chinese, English, American, Italian and others.  There was also an ice cream machine and chocolate fountain!  Me and Mr Milly were seated near to the dessert station and it was hysterical watching folks navigate the ice cream machine and the chocolate fountain,  people do the funniest things!

We spent another day just resting with some spa treatments,  Mr Milly had a facial and Indian Head Massage - he was completely chilled out the remainder of the day!  I had a back massage,  not a soft massage, but quite firm which is how I prefer them,  I could feel some of my knots and tension being massaged away - Lovely!!

When we left on Monday we made a longish detour to Bicester and the Outlet Village - there were 2 shops in particular we wanted to visit Fat Face for Mr Milly and Cath Kidston for me.  We did find them both and enough said about that as we did come home with a big bag full each!!

We thoroughly enjoyed our Anniversary Treat and spending time together just relaxing!!

Alison