Travelling Home By Way Of Leamington Spa

[poliphilo]

My mother gave us a Marks and Spencer's gift card for Christmas and we decided we'd stop on our way home and spend it. What we did was drive until we felt hungry- by which time it was Warwickshire- then  left the motorway,  asked Sally Satnav to find us the nearest store and she took us to the centre of Leamington Spa. Leamington is a beautiful town- mostly built at the beginning of the 19th century- which was absolutely the greatest era for English domestic architecture- classical but neither slavish nor bombastic, with everything proportioned just so.  We stayed there once when we were doing something Shakespeare-related in nearby Stratford- and we've promised ourselves we'll repeat the experience.



It's nice to be home- and not to have an alarm clock set. I woke at seven, turned over and slept for another three quarters of an hour. It's very quiet here in town; you don't have the traffic noises you have in the country.

Comments

[glitzfrau.livejournal.com]

It's very quiet here in town; you don't have the traffic noises you have in the country.

Hah! What a neat observation. This is what I always think when I stay in the country, too. Deafened rustics cling to their fiction of bucolic peace and quiet, but we know better.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

My mother lives close to the A21- the London to Hastings road. You can't see it, but it roars day and night.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

What is that thing in the sky? It looks like a chandelier caught in a spider's web.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

You're not far wrong. It's part of the town's Christmas decorations.

[resonant.livejournal.com]

I thought at first that it was an extremely fancy streetlight.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

In a way I suppose it is...

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

Christmas chandeliers in the street lighting have been popular here on this side of the pond for a while now. Seville has a few as well.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I think they're rather elegant.

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

They are!

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

My Dad now lives in Leamington Spa since he moved to a residential care home. I would have been there this weekend visiting him if I hadn't developed this stinking cold. :(

It looks a very pleasant place from Google street view, though I've only ever passed through it on the train up to now.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I only know the town centre- which I'd say was one of the handsomest in Britain.

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Not entirely sure I'd concur with the latter observation. =:) But then, the locality seems replete with.. enthusiastic drivers, who seek to impress people with quite how long they can maintain a low gear after ascending the hill, all the way to the special angels who overtake buses pulling out - best was a few weeks ago, where they suddenly had to cast the anchor on seeing another car approach. No impact, thankfully, but a bit of smoke and a couple feet between distress.

I used to enjoy visiting M&S, but knowing they use the abhorrent workfare scheme has killed any such pleasure. I do hope they reconsider such an ill-advised position.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We don't usually go to M & S. The prices are far too rich for us.

Workfare is foul.

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

I use to live just twelve miles away in Rugby , well actually born there so i often visited this quaint little town.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I went to conferences in Rugby on a couple of occasions.