After an early morning harvest of plums and berries, we packed up camp and bid farewell to the Cotswolds, but not before we made one last stop at St Edward’s church in Stow-on-the-Wold. Some believe this doorway (with yew trees planted here 300 years ago now part of the structure) to be inspiration for JRR Tolkien’s “Doors of Durin” on the west gate of Moria in The Lord of the Rings.

We drove on, over the River Wye, and into Wales, where we set up camp in Brecon Beacons and went straight up Pen y fan – one of the ‘Beacons’. It was magical.

The road up was not magical. In Australia, these are what we call footpaths. It is terrifying. Jonathon is an absolute star for getting our car past all the cars coming the other way without even a scrape!