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Day 29 Sunday June 10 Chichester

Lost photo from yesterday - the ensuite at Bayleaf Tudor farm

Part of the garden at the Roman palace at Fishbourne

Inside the building that covers the West wing of the palace

The Cupid on a dolphin mosaic

One of the black and white geometric mosaics

The virtual palace - you can move through the palace to see the mosaics in context

Grapevines and figs in the Roman garden

Espaliered apple tree

We went on a tour of the storage and conservation areas

Back to Chichester in the afternoon to look around the Cathedral

A window designed by Chagall

Tomb c1375  - 3rd Earl of Arundel and his 2nd wife

Tomb of Joan de Vere, late 13thC - with painted decoration

Day 28 Saturday June 9 Chichester

Tudor market building and shops at the Weald and Downland open air museum, where buildings at risk of demolition have been moved and reconstructed

Medieval Hall house, 15th C

Watermill, 17th C

The market building was part of a wedding reception today

Poplar cottage and garden, mid 1600s

Part of the house was a cobbler's workshop

The gardens were beautifully done, with lots of information about the plants and garden design

Bayleaf Tudor farm, from the garden (c1540)

Farmhouse garden

The high table in the farm house, with painted linen wall hanging

Looking towards the high table, with an open hearth in the middle of the room

Looking out from the second floor

The main bedroom of the farmhouse, with trundle bed

The kitchen was in a separate building, with several ovens

And an open hearth

And lots of reproduction ceramics

Meanwhile in the garden

Several of the heavy horses who live on the site

Pendean farmhouse c1609

More ceramics reproductions

Medieval open hall, late 14th C

The South Downs countryside around the museum

13th C building, reconstructed from archaeological evidence

How to make a hedgerow

Anglo Saxon Hall house c950, reconstructed from archaeological evidence

Back in Chichester - lovely spot for dinner at the St Martin's Coffee House

Very popular place - the Great British Gin Festival

Looking across the park at a bit of everything (L to R) - Chichester Cathedral, Gin Festival, Franciscan Friary and remains of motte and bailey

Smelling the roses

Day 27 June 8 Gloucester to Chichester by train

Waiting in Gloucester train station for our trains, taking us in different directions.  Scott and I went to Chichester for a couple of days

Chichester Cathedral, partly under wraps for restoration

On the town wall, looking down into the Bishop's Palace garden

The Bishop's Palace garden

Walking along the top of the town wall, part of a public footpath around the city

And then the camera battery went dead...

Day 26 June 7 Rest day in Gloucester

Beatrix Potter's model for the Tailor of Gloucester's house - now a shop and little museum

Sheep in the Gloucester Cathedral

Fan vaulting in the quire

The lavatorium in the cloisters, where the monks washed in the mornings - and where Harry and Ron hid when the mountain troll was on the loose

Looking towards the high alter in the quire, from the second story Tribune's gallery

In the garden of the cloisters

In the historic dock area for dinner tonight - last night for the group together.  Everyone off their separate ways tomorrow...