The delicious full English breakfast gave us plenty of fuel. The handmade sausages, farm fresh eggs, and homemade jam and bread were particularly tasty.
We ignored our host's warning about the short cut preferred by locals, deciding to take a chance. The pastures weren't as muddy as he'd feared, and we didn't even see the "temperamental bull."
After passing through farm land we stopped at a village church.
Old Sarum sits above the Salisbury plain. It began as an iron age fort before becoming in turn the site of a Roman town, a Saxon stronghold, and a Norman castle and cathedral. Very little remained of the Norman's outer walls, but we found a "window."
I'm posing in front of a part of Henry I's stronghold.
The massive earthen works date back to the iron age, when the builders of the hill fort controlled local trade.
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This is my fifth or sixth view of this delightful post. I'd like to do that walk someday. We're walking more and hope to be in shape for a walking trip in England sometime soon.
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