Motor Heritage Museum, Gaydon

Whilst not as big as Coventry Transport Museum this permanent exhibition at Gaydon has many distinctive and unique motor cars. Astons, Rovers and various other British marques feature highly but this can easily be forgiven. I particularly liked the Tracked Land Rover Cuthbertson conversion and the Alec Issigonis Lightweight Special Race Car.

29 Steps to Heaven

The spiral staircase leads up to the main door, which opens on a single large room, furnished with all the mod cons required for comfortable late mediaeval living.

Our weekend break also included 'comparative castling' at Chepstow, Raglan and Caerphilly with a monastic detour via Tintern. All this was bookended by stops at Coughton Court and Penderyn distillery