And most welcome you will be Bo, but we need to work on your British geography! Cheltenham is Gloucestershire which is west of England, Cambridge is on the east. Mind you, it is about 2.5 - 3 hours away which by American/Canadian/Australian standards is next door! But to us Brits that is a foreign holiday distance, or at £4 per gallon of petrol it costs like it! If you do go near Cambridge do not miss the Imperial War Museum airfield at Duxford, it is a superb, whole day museum trip for aero enthusiasts. If you are into warbirds, their Flying Legends airshow is out of this world with dozens of WW2 huge piston engine fighters all taking off together, ah heaven. The sound is beyond description.

Where I live is the Cotswolds, all American tourist dream stuff, chocolate box picture villages nestling in tight little valleys covered in ancient woods with old cottages hewn from the golden honey coloured limestone, covered with climbing ivy which is green in summer and Ferrari scarlet in the Autumn. Henry Ford was so enchanted he bought an entire street from one of our villages and tried to have it dismantled and shipped back to the good ol' US of A (Arlington Row in Bibury) but so incensed the locals at losing their heritage they managed to stop it happening. The drive from my home in the greatest Regency town of all Cheltenham Spa, to my airfield, takes me up atop the Cotswolds, through ancient villages with oh to die for cottages and colourful country gardens, along narrow little valleys, up through the steep hills with woods where deer are still hunted and which sometimes leap across the road ahead of the car, past fields stocked full of wild colourful pheasant, and finally emerge at the top of the wolds at our airfield with views to as far away as the flat plains of Oxfordshire, and mysterious ancient Wiltshire to our south. Our runway is ex-WW2 airfield, wide and long and we have kept the tarmac renewed and smooth on a large patch of it.

Seriously, if you do holiday over this way drop me an email, you can visit the club and I can tell you where to go for the best sights and experiences as tourist in the Cotswolds.

Harry