Saturday 4 June 1994. A disappointment - it threw it down raining nearly all day. The Cotswolds are lovely on a nice sunny day but there's not a lot of shelter apart from tea shops and cafes so with a view to making the best of it, we went to Cheltenham.
Walking about in a city gets you just as wet as walking about in a small village, so we looked for somewhere to go and I snatched photos as we flitted from car park to shopping centre!
I saw a sign for a record fair and left the ladies to visit the shopping centre whilst I went for a mooch round the singles and LPs (remember them?) in a hall.
The record fair whittled away a happy hour or more. I even made a purchase or two. One of them was Curved Air, being the second album from the band whose name was the title of the album. I used to see them live every time they came to Manchester when I was a teenager - brilliant band! A few singles were bought as well - destined for the jukebox!
Then back to the car and a drip over the map and we decided to drive a bit more and visit Gloucester.
We parked near the canal. This is the National Waterways Museum. But that wasn't what we had come to see. We went into the Robert Opie Museum of Packaging and wallowed in a rosy-tinted nostalgia of boxes of Omo and Acdo, packets of Spangles and all sorts of things that get thrown away in their thousands every day. Brilliant! The Gloucester museum is now closed but a lot of the collection is on display in Notting Hill in London. It was well worth seeing.
It's still raining. But I've spotted another museum reference on the map back in the Cotswolds so we'll go to check that out on our way back to Bourton-On-The-Water!
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