366 Photos - 260, 261, 262 and 263/366 - Jaunting!

I was so sure I'd keep up with my 366 photos this weekend, but while having guests is lovely, it turns out not conducive to posting - even when it's a Pros-y guest. Too much talk and exploring and visiting... *g* gilda_elise and her friend stopped by on her Grand Tour of Over Here, and so there was... talk and exploring and visiting. *g*

Friday
Do you remember this place? Old Wardour Castle, which I found after wandering past Fonthill Bishop, home of William Beckett (who'd fled England for Italy after being found in bed with a beautiful boy, and went on to write the first English-Oriental Gothic Horror story (which I'd entirely forgotten about until I looked again!) I did get a bit distracted by the grafitti - QVR are Queen Victoria's Rifles, who were a London regiment, and one of the first regiments in France when war was declared in 1914. Only 40 of them survived Hill 60, at Ypres, in 1915, and they suffered heavy losses at the Battle of Gommecourt on 1st July 1916. I wonder if Milles had already been invalided out, when he carved his name here at Old Wardour, or if he was at home on leave perhaps, and yet to fight at Gommecourt...

It was rather fab visiting with a friend, this time!

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