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!
