Cobham

Cobham was the final destination for this trip and we booked into the Cobham Hilton for five nights.

The hotel was approximately a thirty minute walk from the town.

In the hotel grounds we found two rabbits enjoying a feed.

This building contains the main restaurant and the room were our final team dinner was held. A passage connects the building to the main hotel complex.

We crossed the bridge over the river and then continued on over the main road to a series of roads connected to a roundabout.

A little further we saw the Loch Fyne hotel which specialises in seafood.

It was then time to return to the hotel for dinner.

After our visit to Windsor on the Saturday we had had our final team dinner in the George Room at the hotel. The food was good but there were service issues at our table with only some of us receiving bread rolls and then two of the entrees being served without the main ingredients. This was eventually resolved.

Captain, Ian Petherick, gives his report of the cricket tour.

Tim Spear provides a continuation of the banter that has occurred at 'the back of the bus' during the tour.

On the Sunday the weather was cool with the threat of rain so we decided the best time for a walk was the early morning.

A staff member at the hotel had told me that the Painshill Gardens were worth visiting. They were a small distance from where we had stopped walking on Thursday so we set off to locate them.

The park was designed as a pleasure garden in the eighteenth century - between 1738 and 1773. Charles Hamilton created the garden with its series of follies after travelling to Europe on Grand Tours.

As we crossed the River Mole to the park entrance it began to rain so we decided to return to the hotel. I am sure that Painshill Gardens would be an interesting place to visit on a sunny day.

It rained for the rest of the day so the decision not to travel to London for the day approved to be a good one.