Bourton-on-the-water

I had a day off work today so I took my mum to bourton-on-the-water, in the Cotswolds. Mum had visited the miniature village that the area is best known for when she was a child, so it was nice to explore and we also saw a new attraction, bird land.

We started at the miniature village which is set in the garden of an old pub. The former landlord commissioned the buildings in the 1930s and it was built to a 1/9 th scale. The attention to detail is incredible, particularly the stained glassed in the large model church. There was a smaller church with windows and you could see the congregation inside singing hymns and there was even a hidden music box playing hymns as if the little models were actually singing!

We then went to a little cafe overlooking the stream and had a cream tea, before heading over to bird land, which we had stumbled upon by chance while we were looking for the nature village. 

The first birds we saw were my favourite - penguins!

It was a lovely walk through the gardens and we saw lots of beautiful birds on the way round, including these pretty flamingoes. 

We could have spent a couple of hours walking round and watching the talks, especially as the sun started to appear but unfortunately our parking ticket ran out so we had to make a move.