Down to the Forest of Dean

Sunshine!!! On Friday the sun shone and we took the chance. Off across country to Newnham, a place that Dorian has been pushing for a couple of years now. Specifically The Silver Fox Cafe for breakfast. There are few British restaurants that serve breakfast all day. This one is great. As we tucked in to our full English,(bacon sausage eggs toast fried tomatoes, fried mushrooms beans coffee) we had beautiful views over the River Severn. We heard from the owner how the Beatles and the Stones, Shirley Bassey and Richard Burtan, who used to pull up in his white Rolls all used to come for Breakfast when they were in the area. If you go on Youtube you can put in The Silver Fox and hear how it is haunted. Great fun.
The town of Newnham is a beautiful little place as well. Then off through the lanes to the Forest of Dean and to Tintern Abbey in Wales, a monastery that came to grief under Henry VIII. It is now a grand ruin. It was mentioned by Wordsworth in his poem. We had a good look round before moving on to the Speech House, a hunting lodge built for Charles II, and later used as a court house for the inhabitants of the Forest of Dean. In fact they still must meet 4 times a year. We met instead to have a really good cream tea.