Never did...but, I do enjoy hearing about it! 🤗

I like these programs hidden gems and explorer are becoming addictive I have never visited the Cotswolds but watching these programs I should like to sit by a warm fire In a lovely Cotswold cottage listening to Robin shuckbrugh reading Ghost stories 😊👍

No, but I’d love to!

Our choir had a concert last week in the Abbey. It is astonishingly beautiful acoustically, architecturally and historically. Last time I can only spend very little of time walking around since I have to prepare for the concert, I'll definitely find time to come to visit again.

Yes I went there last Tuesday, marvellous, very beautiful place .

It really is a wonderful place. Thanks for watching. Robin

Thanks for the tip Dave. I'll look for the book now. Thanks for watching. Robin

Thanks for the tip! I found a second hand paperback edition and it's such an evocative description of the town, it's people, their way of life and the countryside! There is more description of pubs than churches - which nicely complements this channel's focus!

Very glad you found and enjoyed the book the description of the world now lost to us the poverty and th e little pleasures of country folk is what England used to be .

@@TheCotswoldExplorer Hello from an admirer of your talents. I love your channel and recently enjoyed a ghost story read to us by you . I would like to request that for the upcoming Fall season you would read my favorite and frightening supernatural tale by M.R. James, “Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook”. IIt has been years since I read it and I have never been able to forget it. The story of the miraculous escape from destruction of Tewkesbury Abbey. brought the M R James tale back to my mind. .Please, if you have the time in your schedule, consider my request. i don’t advise viewers to read it alone or at night, but if we all can gather together in cyberspace and listen to your voice, we will feel safe. Thank you.

Good to hear from you Jojo. Also pleased to hear Tewksbury is as nice to live in as it looks. Thanks for watching. Robin

Hi Jade. I am so glad you are enjoying the channel. As you can imagine we have a lot of fun making the films and it gives us huge pleasure to hear that others enjoy them. Keep watching and whilst I am able I will go on visiting these wonderful places on your behalf. All the best Robin

Jade, you speak for me too.I am american have lived all my life in the US and have, from an early age been obsessed with all things English and the history of Britannia pre Roman occupation and beyond. Shakespeare desbribed it as “This Sceptered Isle” and even Hitler is reported to have said that he would pluck it like an emerald set in a silver sea, or maybe Shakespeare said it first. .You and I both have that longing for the land, the Welsh call it hiraeth , I am not sure of the spelling..but my Father’s ancestors were from Wales. and he would say that he longed for a place he had never been. he also said that the folks of the British Isles seemed to be cold and reserved, like the climate , but inside there was great love and warmth of soul.. You mentioned maybe you could live there in another life? Perhaps we have lived there in the past, or as the Native American elders teach, we are all born into this earth carrying with us the “blessed burden of the blood of our ancestors”, who watch over us from their distant fires (the stars in the night sky) and take pride in our lives well lived and send us help in dreams..Perhaps our DNA carries ancestral memories of England.? Robin so eloquently evokes the sorrow and outrage felt even 500 years later, at the destruction and culltural terrorism of the Abbeys and churches set in motion by Henry VIII. I am still amazed that Henry was not struck by lightning for his evil deeds. I love this channel and look forward to more adventures exploring our heritage. from NW WA state 🌲🌲🇺🇸

Hello Joy. Luckily the Cotswolds just go on giving. We'll keep at it as long as I am able. Thaks for watching. Robin

They are great scene-stealers! I won't tell them though. They are already too pleased with themselves. Thanks for watching. Robin

Our pleasure!

A bright fellow. Give him our best wishes. All the best Robin

Hi Monica. It really is an amazing place. We certainly owe our ancestors a debt of gratitude for making the effort. Thanks for watching and best wishes Robin