As we were seeing a property on Thursday afternoon in the village of Much Birch, we decided to tie it in with a visit to the cathedral city of Hereford. Off we trundled in the heat, with our lunch and picnic blanket, planning to have a potter around the little shops and take a look at the cathedral which dominates the centre.
Not much shop pottering was done as it was just too hot.
Unusually for a cathedral it was free to go in, so we took turns to have a look around. I couldn't figure out what had taken Roy so long, until we realised that I had somehow missed about 2/3rds of it, so I went back in to check it out properly and I'm very glad I did.
By the way the house wasn't for us, it needed some work, which would have been fine, but there was a huge problem that an A road more or less ran through the back garden, or at least sounded like it did.
On Saturday we had planned to spend the day at the Kington Show, the largest one day agricultural show in the county. I was really looking forward to it too and had even planned to enter Tulip into one of the dog shows, with in my mind to at least walk away with a rosette, Roy wasn't so sure about that one.
After careful consideration we decided it wouldn't be a good idea due to the heat and certainly not fair to be dragging Tulip along. As it turned out it was a very good call as most of the animals on show were returned home to get out of the heat as well.
We instead had a quiet morning and when it got too hot to stay on the campsite we went to the village of Pembridge. Another day, another village and another church but this time Tulip was allowed in as well.
Pembridge is a lovely village, with a wonderful Old Chapel Gallery which houses many inspirational pieces of original art, from stained glass and collagraph prints to paintings and garden sculptures. It also has a really sweet village shop where I brought some fig bread and Roy a handmade pork pie, but sadly it also has a busy main road running right through the middle of it.
For lunch we stopped off at The Dunkerton Cider Barn, which I can't rate highly enough. Slightly hit and miss opening time (we originally went on a Tuesday and they are closed) but once you know what they are its definitely worth a visit, whether you like cider or not. The food at lunchtime was amazing and very reasonably priced.
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