Seeking ‘A Highway Of Diamonds With Nobody On It’

Day 1 – to Brill, Oxfordshire

The last course finished on 1st December with a temperature below zero and snow flurries, and this one begins with the same. It was only a few days ago that it was shirts and T-shirt weather, almost up to 20C.

I dread the journey down through England on whichever motorways I take, but today’s was a better plan.

After a couple of hours out with the dog in the morning, and pack up / tidy up, we were away just after 1 pm, and arrived just north of the Cotswolds, close to Thame, just off the M40 at 6:30 pm. I had had some chores in Kendal on route. After some research I had found a recommendation at Brill Windmill car park, in the elevated Brill Common, fifty metres or so from The Pheasant pub in the village. In more clement conditions a pub wouldn’t have been so attractive, but with the temperature already negative, and snow in the air, it certainly was tonight.