Titchfield Abbey
Since Graham got his new car (See here for more info) we’ve been checking out some of the local Hampshire attractions - which of course you can only really see a lot of them by car, which I think really sucks. Anyway, ‘nuf said about that for now. We went to Titchfield Abbey on saturday, one of the freebie English-Heritage sites. It’s very lovely and has over time had various renovations done to it - some including red bricks(!!!) and 2 very silly looking chimneys on the top, again in red brick. There were also some beautiful crosses in the stone walls and some latin tiles. We had a picnic while we were there too, it was very quiet - only 3 other cars were there while we were, and 2 left before we did.
I love places like this - it’s interesting to see and try to imagine what life was like for people hundreds of years ago - and really makes me appreciate my (too expensive in my opinion) electric heating, and the new car 
We did end up almost missing the turn off for the Abbey though. They Abbey walls aren’t hard to miss, but the entrance looks like one those yellow/white gravel paths, not a road entrance, and if it wasn’t for the car we managed to get a glimpse of inside then Graham said he wouldn’t have gone in with the car!!