The morning was bright and lovely so we got organised and drove the 2 minutes to the Wroexeter Roman city site. The campsite is actually on top of where part of the city would have been.

Wroxeter, also known as Viroconium Cornoviorum, was once the fourth largest Roman city in Britain. It has the largest standing piece of Roman building in Britain – part of the baths basilica. The main buildings including the bath house, nearby shops and part of the forum have been dug up.

Good audio guides are provided as part of normal admission. There is a museum showing the finds from the site – lots of jewellery and personal items – like many of ours today.

We saw the various parts of the site – including the building erected using Roman techniques in 2010 as part of a tv program.

Here are the rooms from the newly erected house

After lots of Roman info we went food shopping and then stopped for lunch at Severn Country Park. There was a short walk past ponds with water lilies and a field of orchids to a bird hide.

We drove through lovely countryside and towns including Kidderminster.

Our next stop was another small CL campsite Berkeley Hunt Farm near WWT Slimbridge north of Bristol.

We arrived at the campsite – over a narrow canal bridge then through 2 farm gates into a big field. We found a spot with nice views over the Severn Estuary.

We then decided to walk down the canal about 2 miles to a pub – the Sharpness Sports and Social Club. It’s right above the canal and was a hotel about to be closed by the brewery. The Dockside workers social club bought it and now run it with volunteers.

On the way there is a boat graveyard where large boats were deliberately wrecked and filled with cement on the shore to stop erosion.

The old railway bridge across the estuary was wiped out in 1960 by 2 boats trying to get through the swing bridge section in foggy conditions and during the big tide change that they get on the estuary, About 5 people on the boats died – and that was the end of the bridge, There are only the impressive large stone end bridge supports left.

There were many interesting canal boats in Sharpness harbour and alongside the canal.

We had a nice sunny drink outside overlooking the town with many old mills – and eating some crisps and nuts to sustain us on the way back.

We met a chap and his dog who live on his boat most of the time. He was well tanned and fit looking for his age.

We then walked back along the canal in the setting sun.

Getting back to Gus we had dinner and were soon in bed.