Tintern village 2 July 2016

The sun was out!  An incentive to explore the village.  We had noticed that there was a bookshop and really, who can resist a bookshop?  And what a setting!  Almost as good as Kalk Bay Books.

Stella & Rose's Books - rare and out of print books is how they market themselves.

A place you could spend hours browsing ..

But after weeks of rain - actually I don't think it was weeks, it just felt like it - it was lovely to be outside.

There was a fete in town - in the open grounds around the Abbey.  It was like every fete you've ever read about if you were brought up on Enid Blyton.

An archery competition ...

A brass band, a tea garden, tombola, forest people with giant bubbles.  Everything changes, and nothing changes - quite comforting.