Short excerpt from 2006 letter about a visit to Winston Churchill's grave in St.Martin churchyard,Bladon,England:When we left the town of Ely in the early afternoon, we began our lon-n-n-g journey to Stonesfield, near Oxford. (We are getting very lazy about driving.) It would have taken us only about three hours, but Adelle made a slight miscalculation as we were ready to switch to the last local road to take us to a lovely campground on the grounds of Blenheim Palace near Woodstock, causing us to take twenty minutes more. Up till then she had been all excited about not having directed us to "the scenic route" for a while!

In the morning before we left the campground, we walked through the town of Bladon to see the burial ground of the local church – where Winston Churchill and much of the rest of his family are buried. Then we walked back to the campground, had our lunch and were off to drive the five miles to Stonesfield where Harry and Nicky and their three daughters expected us for the weekend.