September 15th

White Horses and A Saxon Church

The Tilburys had a hiking map of the area, and the next day they helped us plan a path that brought us to one of the famous Wiltshire White Horses.

We hiked along a canal

This was a boat that we saw in the canal. The rebel flag cracked me up :)

There was lots of stinging nettle along the path. This was taken right after we broke free from the nettle!

Our host lent us a map with roads and trails, which we used often. The trail headed right into a cow pasture, and I am a little afraid of cows, so I put my best face on and went forward. One of the nieces says "Dogs aren't scary" right before she loses her cool and panics, so I kept telling Susie "cows aren't scary! Cows aren't scary!" The problem with a path through a cow pasture is that the cows also make paths, and we were soon lost. We wandered here and there through the pasture, found where the cows must have played "king of the hill", and went on again. We used the i-Phone compass, went East and West, and no luck. Finally we saw an English couple coming towards us, so I set our path to collide with theirs and asked where the White Horse was. "Right down there", they said, pointing to a spot almost beneath us and maybe 100 yards away... "it is a little hard to spot from here, though, looks a little like a gravel patch from above". They suggested that we stop in at the Barge Inn afterwards, and said that it was a fun little place. Then they went on their way, and Susie and I surveyed the horse.

There were a few very old churches a little off the past, so we stopped and looked inside.

This church was built by Saxons before the Norman invasion.

We stopped at the Barge Inn, and has some delicious BLTs