Off to the Midlands

Time to leave London. Here is the train timetable at Euston station. We are off to Birmingham to get ourselves some wheels. Yes wombats can drive too.










But for now we can relax and watch the countryside pass by










After arriving at Birmingham, we travelled briefly south to Coventry and stayed one night there. Here is the view from our hotel window.











Saturday morning, and we are off again, we are seeing a few well known places today. This is Heather Road in Binley Woods (near Coventry). What is this you ask ?











It is of course the location of Hyacinths House from "Keeping up Appearances" Very nervous driving past but fortunately Hyacinth did not appear to "sing at us"










The British make some wonderful TV, Us wombats have been watching it for years..... and the locations are real, and usually in tiny little villages. One such village is Turville. The windmill above appeared in the movie "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" The town has also been used for "Midsomer Murders"










And above and below in the same town, the home and church featured in "The Vicar of Dibley"




















After our visit to Turville one more TV related spot to visit. This tree, located next to lake Boldermere near east Clandon, was the site where Catweazle departed the 20th Century at the end of the first series of the show back in the 1970's










Here I am looking at the lake from the tree, at the same spot where Carrot (Catweazle's young 20th Century friend) asked "will you come back one day ?" as Catweazle vanished standing in the water you can see..... they don't make tv like that any more....sadly

more soon....