A Weekend In The Country, How Amusing, How Delightfully Droll

Sunday marked the end of our first semester break. Many of my fellow students jetted off Wednesday evening to Paris or Dublin, but I took a much more Hobbity vacation*. For the first two days, I spent time in my empty flat, cooking, cleaning, reading, watching movies and generally indulging my home-body side. Then, on Saturday morning I took a train to Moreton-in-Marsh in Gloucestershire where Toby and Anthony Cragg, here for the weekend from Colorado to see the Carling Cup final, met me at the station and took me to their beautiful country home. Here we traipsed about the Cotswolds, played croquet, looked at pheasants and deer, had a leisurely supper at The Horse and Groom pub, and generally enjoyed the country life. Maybe not as exciting as a whirlwind tour of another country, but it was certainly a more calm and restful way to spend the break.

*Hobbits, of course, loving above all things good food, good company, their Hobbit holes, and a lovely countryside to walk in.