National Memorial Arboretum

With the clocks going back, we were up in more than good time for the day's plan. So we breakfasted before walking out, through Alrewas and over the A38 to the National Memorial Arboretum, which none of us had visited before. We arrived rather early and so had to wait 20 minutes for it to open, wandering around the Dunkirk memorial at the front.

Once in, we took a route past the big memorial, to the Shot at Dawn Memorial (where a plaque to James Crozier was notable), and on to the Pegasus Bridge memorial. The site was huge and well kept, whilst the sun graced us with its presence for the during of our visit; it had rained as we waited for the doors to open.

We returned to the boat aiming for Hopwas for tea, with the spectre of an afternoon run through the military ranges looming!Read more