A visit to Ross-on-Wye

Miss P has been away for a few days so Alan and I have spent most of the time catching up on work around the house. Some DIY jobs aren't so easily done when children are around. Alan has been tiling the kitchen walls (pictures to follow in a future post).

However, yesterday we took the day off. We left at around 9am without any set plan of where to go and headed north towards Gloucestershire. We stopped in Chipping Sodbury for tea & cake and then decided to go on to Herefordshire.


I really wanted to treat myself to a bunch of dahlias in Chipping Sodbury but knew that by the time we got back home they would have suffered with the heat...so I photographed them instead.

We stopped in Ross-on-Wye to have lunch and explore the town as neither of us had been there before. There were quite a few antique shops, charity shops and pretty individual shops.



There is a very good cook shop in the main street


Almshouses


St.Mary's Church


View looking towards the river Wye and Monmouth




Effigies inside the church


A candle and a prayer for a loved one.

We returned to the car park right by Pig's Alley ready to explore another place.

In my next post, I will take you to an enchanted forest where we stumbled across a film crew, filming a scene for a movie due out in June 2012...

A bientôt!

Isabelle X

Discover some of Bristol's hidden gems

A taster of my day out in Bristol......

IT WAS ALAN'S BIRTHDAY YESTERDAY!

Phoebe & I find baby Alan's expression really funny!

What was going through his mind at the time?...


Alan on the left, sitting with one of his brothers

(I like this picture)


My lovely vintage husband, today.

Yesterday, we decided to go to Bristol as Alan needed to go to a particular shop in Clifton.
I had not been to Clifton for some time so after his purchase, we decided to have little look around.

As you will see from the photos we came across some very interesting shops.

On our way back to the car, I spotted a shop I felt would be right up my street and I was right! Cotham Antiques is full of lovely things such as dolls houses, jewellery, pictures, old toys. The atmosphere is lovely. I spent ages looking around in there and here are some of the things I saw:

(For a better window shopping experience, click on the photos to get a larger picture)


Cotham Antiques, Pitville Place, Cotham Hill, Bristol

Susan Miller from Cotham Antiques particularly enjoys buying

and selling dolls houses.

I took a shining to that little chap (Sylvac)!

They are so lovely, it's nice to see that over the years they

have been looked after well.

This is so sweet, I had not seen that before.

We then made our way to Clifton Arcade in Boyce Avenue

The architecture of the inside of the arcade is well worth seeing

Clifton Vintage Boutique at No 5
Cleo opened this boutique about 2 weeks ago

I spent quite a while looking there


Beautiful vintage dresses


1920's Czeck glass necklace, stunning!

A couple of doors away, I popped in to Bees & Graves. A must for lovers of vintage jewellery!They have been featured in Vogue Magazine. (See photo)

Beautiful entrance & shop front

I like the mannequin heads they have in the shop.


Although a bit over the top, I love that necklace!

Spotted anything that takes your fancy?

Just before leaving, we popped in to this deli. A mouth watering experience!

Spoilt for choice...

The cakes looked so tempting!

As you have already probably guessed, we had a really good day there!

A bientôt!

Isabelle x