Immersion Worship

Continuing my lame trip through an excellent wall calendar series, and continuing my now traditional approach of being heinously late, here’s April’s trip to the most excellent place in the Cotswolds, one of my most favourite places in the entire country; Bourton-on-the-Water…



Here’s a picture of me at this same bridge, taken from the other side (where you see the white chairs in the above picture)…



Bourton-on-the-Water is a mere 28 miles from the hallowed turf of Witney, and is known as “The Venice of The Cotswolds” due to the river that flows through the village, spanned by many bridges. The river, by the way, is the River Windrush, which also flows through Witney.

Some of the cool things about Bourton-on-the-Water, apart from it’s oldness and quaintness, are the model village (an exact 1:10 replica of the village itself), the motor vehicle museum (full of really old cars), several tea houses serving tea and scones that are sinfully delicious, and the monthly farmer’s market which sells pretty much anything you’d want for dinner.

Perhaps the coolest thing is that every summer a football match gets played between two of the bridges, with the goal posts placed in the water. It’s a full-on, eleven-a-side match and it gets quite a crowd. I think the main purpose of the game, though, is just to get everyone as wet as possible. Good times, good times.

Oh, and I almost forgot. If my memory serves me correctly, Bourton-on-the-Water is where my good friend Kieran proposed to his Bride-to-Be earlier this year. How romantic.

Next up to be late is some other village that I don’t remember right now. Bet you just can’t wait.