Last weekend marked a year since we began our adventuring and we decided we should celebrate in style – and yet again, we couldn’t have been luckier in our discovery.

We were looking for a B&B with a difference to treat ourselves and happened upon the Clock Tower, in Lower Catesby – in Northamptonshire. If you can,  go and stay! This is the view you could wake up to every morning!

The view from our bed

The Clock Tower sits atop the original stable block of an English country estate and is now home to Lizzie and David Bland and their family.

The Clock Tower

The Clock Tower garden and beyond

They were perfect hosts, with plenty of tips on places to eat, cooking delicious breakfasts and a pleasure to chat with. They gave us a celebratory bottle of wine and even Charlie was made a fuss of, with his own“bon voyage” note and rose when we left.

Charlie made another friend

We didn’t just indulge ourselves in glorious views from the Tower. We communed with cute cattle in the fields beyond;

Cow, calf and chapel

Scruff

sat by the nearby canal and watched the narrow boats;

Messing about on the water

Narrow boats abound

Narrow boats marina

journeyed to Tewkesbury for a medieval festival, complete with armies and all sorts;

The Battle of Tewkesbury

Ready to charge

visited historic cities and checked out Shakespeare’s “second best bed”.

Ancient Warwick

St. Mary’s, Warwick

Anne Hathaway’s house

Shakepeare’s kitchen

Shakespeare’s second best bed

Shakespeare might have left his wife his second best bed, but Lizzie and David’s at the Clock Tower is better! If you have something to celebrate – be it an anniversary, or, even better, just life itself –  the Clock Tower is the perfect marker of your moment in time. Thanks Lizzie and David for the fun, easy friendship and indulgence!