If you want somewhere peaceful and beautiful to visit for a weekend I can recommend Braunston and the surrounding area. Braunston is a tiny village just of the M1 J15. It consists of a mill, 4 pubs, a chippie, a church, hotel and a village store. We happened to find out about a place offering romantic breaks on good ol' Ebay. Here's where we stayed, a cottage in the grounds of the Mill...
with all the luxuries needed for romance down to tealights and red petals around the tub and bed!
and the table already laid out for romantic dining...
We did alot of walking (good for the soul as well as the legs!) along the canals and to and fro pubs. We ventured away from the cosiness of the cottage into Daventry (not a bad little place, especially if you like scouring charity shops for books!) and 'down the road' to Stoke Bruerne, home of one of the many locks on the Grand Union Canal.
I'd not seen 'canal country' before, and I was enchanted! It really helped that the sun decided to shine strongly just as we sat outside yet another pub for lunch. I could have sat there forever!
But we had a boat tour down to Blisworth Tunnel to do...
and our audio tour to finish (available from the museum and worth it), so walk again we did!
We also took a wander around Braunston Marina, both of us were fascinated by the canal boats that were up for sale. Such variety in decor!
But the wind was up (see piccie) so we didn't stop long (no coffee shop or pub here!)
Sunday was even chillier! We drove up to the Draycote Water reservoir, had hot choclate and a muffin overlooking the reservoir, at which point my camera played up and this was the only photo that came out...a rather chilly me with a rather unscenic backdrop!
A brisk walk and we marched back to the car, drove back to the cottage, turned on the electric fire, cosied up on the leather sofa with the freebie Chocolate Eclair sweeties....and fell asleep! :) Completely contented with romance rekindled after a lovely weekend.
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