Thursday 6th June, 2024 - Whichford / Royal Leamington Spa

 We left our little home away from home in Whichford and drove to Royal Leamington Spa to return the hire car.  This trip we used Enterprise Car Hire, and were very impressed with the service.  They even drove us to the hotel on the completion of the hire.

As it was only around midday, we dropped our luggage, and caught a taxi into Royal Leamington Spa.  First stop was a sewing shop, as I needed a DMC thread (or 2)! which was closed for lunch till 1pm, so we went across the road to a Spanish Cafe for lunch.  When the shop opened, they only had a very small range and not what I needed.  We walked down the road to the main street, where there was a craft shop, about 500 metres away, so John (god love him) walked there and called me from there to make sure he was getting the right ones.  Mission accomplished 😀😀😀😀

We continued down the main street to the Royal Pump Room & Baths building, which is now a small museum/ art gallery/library as the baths no longer exist

A taxi back to the hotel, where I did some work on the blog and some cross stitch, while John went to the bar to do some international networking !!!!!Whilst having a beer, he met a man, who asked where we were from and when he told him we lived near Albury, he was amazed, as he had been in Albury and Wagga Wagga only a couple of weeks before.  He actually lives on the central coast, but travels extensively for work, and is a director of a company based in the USA.

John returned to our room, saying that i needed to go with him to meet his new best friend !!!. Which I did.  I should mention his name is Greg. 

The three of us sat having a couple of drinks, and then he insisted that he buy us dinner and couldn't be talked out of it!! Not only that he then insisted that he would come from work and take us to the railway station tomorrow, at whatever time suited us.  Which he did. What a generous person.

We expect to see him in Albury before Christmas.

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