A traveller's reflection: 2017 UK Trip: 23 Cirencester, England

My Travel Journal

"There isn't much I haven't shared with you along the road and through it all there'd always be tomorrow's episode" - Elton John

I started traveling around the world since early 80s when I had the opportunity to combine business trips with vacations. Then later when my rezeki is in abundance, there were numerous other trips along the way for vacations, most of the time with hubby and the kids when the timing is right. I have also started to compile the journal and photo-pages covering almost more than 45 years of world wide travel. Some destinations I visited just once, others many times. Many of those places are the obvious famous places people would like to visit but some, the casual traveler doesn't even think to try. I have placed links to my travel at the side bar of my personal page, My Life Reflections, and will be updating them from time to time.

My wish is to continue my travel and complete circumnavigate the globe, insyaAllah…

Thursday 25 May 2017

2017 UK Trip: 23 Cirencester, England - A Market Town...

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes..." - Marcel Proust

(Typical stone buildings in Cotswold)

Date: 15 May 2017 (Monday)

Route: Bibury – Cirencester

Distance: 7.6 miles (16 min)

Hotel: Travelodge Cirencester Hotel (GBP 54)

Cirencester is a market town in east Gloucestershire, England, 93 miles west northwest of London.

(The road leading to the city centre)

Cirencester lies on the River Churn, a tributary of the River Thames, and is the largest town in the Cotswold District. It is the home of the Royal Agricultural University, the oldest agricultural college in the English-speaking world, founded in 1840.

(The Corinium Museum)

The town's Corinium Museum is well known for its extensive Roman collection. The Roman name for the town was Corinium, which is thought to have been associated with the ancient British tribe of the Dobunni, having the same root word as the River Churn. The earliest known reference to the town was by Ptolemy in 150AD. Cirencester is twinned with Itzehoe, Germany.