01/02/2019 Trying to catch up...

24/01/2019 Ice on the pond in Devizes with reflections...

25/01/2019 Sunset Devizes...

28/01/2019 The Wadworth Drays delivering beer to the pubs on our last morning in Devizes.

29/01/2019 Going home - Leaving at sparrow to get to the Chunnel in Folkestone...

29/01/2019 heading down the M20 in the UK, I just liked the clouds that looked like mountains.

29/01/2019 Back in France; many of the bridges have different statues on them...

29/01/2019 Sadly driving along the coast there are also quite a few wind turbines as it is very windy there - my pet hate!...

29/01/2019 A view from under a bridge...

29/01/2019 French road signs.

29/01/2019 French countryside...

29/01/2019 and then the rain came down.

30/01/2019 It started snowing as soon as we reached our hotel at Bourgtheroulde-Infreville and this is what we set out in the following morning...

30/01/2019 Not nice...

30/01/2019 White countryside...

30/01/2019 Trying to pass trucks!!!!...

30/01/2019 The snow ploughs were out...

It continued to past LeMans and then it just rained the remainder of the way home!!

 01/02/2019 I could not get to the camera fast enough to get a good shot, the neighbour herding his first lambs into a drier place.

15/12/2017 A walk around Devizes, Wiltshire, UK

Maximum temperature 6C,  Minimum 1C,  Some rain and bitterly cold wind.

Some of the shops ...

Walter Rose & Son is a multiple award-winning retail and catering butcher - excellent, but not cheap!!....

Have you ever tasted the fabulous Wadworth range of beers, including the ubiquitous 6X?  If so, did you know they come from Devizes?

Many pubs around the town and lots of  them Wadworth, though this sign is a free house, so not tied to any particular brewery...

The famous statue of Ceres, the Roman Goddess of the harvest, adorns the Corn Exchange and keeps vigil over the Market Place...

The Bear hotel - Local annals record the licence was granted in 1559, but it was thought to be a hostelry long before that!  It overlooks the market square...

A close up of the bear from above...

Clock tower of the Devizes Shambles, an early butchers market, now used for fairs and markets in the town centre...

The Market Cross was designed by Benjamin Wyatt and built in 1814.

Monument & Fountain, Market Square, Devizes

A complicated structure combining a statue, fountain and reservoir! Inscription under the bowl says everything you wanted to know! It was erected  in 1879 from public subscriptions to the memory of the Right Honorable Thomas H.S. Sotheron Astcourt, a local Member of Parliament  for 33 years. 

Looks as if the birds like the company of Thomas HS...

Primulas growing in a pot...

and it seems the tractors are following me from France to the UK! LOL.

Loving having your comments but I will only get back to replying when we get home in January 😊

20/12/2013 Still not feeling great, but went down to Wadworths this morning or I may have missed the horses over Xmas.

Maximum temperature Devizes 9C a little rain later in the day.

Temperature home in the Charente 9C but the sun was out in the afternoon.