Friday 23rd May 2014
Yet another blog post by the mother
A busy but not terribly exciting day today. We were up early for breakfast and then off to Dublin airport to catch our Ryanair flight to Manchester. We have been well impressed with Ryanair - nothing fancy but clean, comfortable and on time flights.
It was a very quick flight of only 45 minutes to Manchester and we arrived to a rather chilly English spring day. Picked up another Ford Galaxy (an automatic this time) and then we headed off down the M6 towards Stoke-on-Trent. Traffic was crawling due to road works and bank holiday weekend and school half term holiday traffic. We stopped for some lunch at a motorway services station and at one point we could see that the traffic had come to a complete stop - eek!
Things did start to move again though and we finally made it to Uttoxeter to buy provisions at around 4pm. Had the usual fun trawling through ASDA although this trip also included buying some clothes. After 7 days on the road with no washing done some members of the party were in need of some additional underwear!
From Uttoxeter we drove out to Denstone and up to Peacock Cottage at Windy Arbour Farm where we were met by Dave the owner. Peacock Cottage is a converted farm outbuilding and is one of those rare places which is actually bigger than it appeared in the photos. There are two bedrooms and a bathroom on the ground floor, a living room/kitchen and bathroom on the second floor and then a mezzanine bedroom above that. The boys immediately took over 'The Wren's Nest' mezzanine area as their room and the girls had the bunk beds downstairs.
Getting to the farm itself is a very picturesque drive as you come in through a village then up a little winding lane before you drive through a wheat field to the farm house and cottages. The garden surrounding the house and cottages is beautiful and Gill and Dave open the garden to public most years. It is a really delightful spot and a complete contrast to being in London. Great that the kids are getting to experience both urban and rural England.
We are all very much looking forward to catching up with the cousins tomorrow!
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