Visit to Arlingham and Slimbridge Village : 22nd June 2011
We were scheduled to attend a wedding on the 24th June at Montacute in Somerset so we decided to break up our journey by stopping off at Slimbridge in Gloucestershire. On our way there we took a bit of a detour to look at a restaurant,” The Old Passage” in Arlingham (also in Gloucester)This is situated on the edge of the River Severn in an oxbow of the river. We then drove from there along the Severn in the direction of Upper Framilode. We stopped for a while by a bend in the road to look at the birds on the edges of the estuary. We were pleased to see what was for us the first colony of Sand Martins in a sandbank that were natural rather than man made. There were probably at least 40 Sand Martins flying around very near to us.