Tewkesbury and the joys of travel by electric car!! 21st October 2024

Charlecote House

We set off from Norwich at 9.00 on Monday 21st October for 4 nights in the Fish Loft in Tewkesbury - with a fully charged car.   When we reached a loo/coffee stop at Cambridge services, we plugged in for a quick top up.  We stopped for lunch at Charlecote Park in Warwickshire, a magnificent house.  Charlecote car park had a whole row of chargers, so we plugged in again!! 

Peter was impressed with the inside of the house (only the downstairs rooms open) but I found it a bit heavy and dark.  Still a great history to the house with the family still in residence and having come over with William the Conqueror! 

Then on to Tewkesbury only to find the car park near the flat, for which the owner had a permit lined up for us, was flooded!  Peter eventually located another car park and despite a message in the car that we had a permit for a flooded car park, we returned to find a Penalty Notice!  Paul the very helpful owner of the apartment, sorted that out for us.  Earlier we had visited the Tourist information place and had leaflets for walks round the ancient buildings and alley ways.  We spent some time locating a roll of sellotape of just the right width for a return parcel that Peter had with him and chased a non-existent kerb side charger and eventually ended up for coffee in the oldest pub in Gloucestershire.  Then we searched the various maps for a charger to top up the car before going off on Wednesday to another National Trust property. We headed for one which was further outside Tewkesbury that anticipated only to find we could not make it work.  On to the next charger which was in a pub car park.  We plugged in and went inside for some food - very mediocre!  We spotted a bus stop outside the pub and left the car and came back to the flat and collapsed!   A recce told us that the car park near the flat was just about accessible now and so we boarded a bus back to the pub and collected the car.  We managed to get the car into the car park without going through deep water and then did one of the walks round Tewkesbury that we had collected the previous day.  Saw some very interesting buildings and alleys. 

A restored 1400 house

Large windows for stocking weavers

A view of the Abbey

The old Baptist Chapel and burying ground

We couldn't go into the Abbey because they were doing a ticketed Son et Lumiere event so we went and bought some crisps and a bottle of wine with which to wash down the evening news! 

And then to an Indian restaurant for some of the tastiest curry we've had in a long time.