Day 5 : A visit to Melton Mowbray with Austin (Sept. 20)

Austin enjoying a pint

After a very long day in Worcester the day before, we decided to take it easy and do some puttering around the local villages.  We had really enjoyed the Anne of Cleves Pub in Melton Mowbray, so we decided to head back there with Austin (since he missed it the first time around).

This pub has such a great atmosphere (and history) and it was fun to watch Eric and Austin having an ale together in this place.

Dad and Son enjoying a pint at Anne of Cleves Pub

Since we had arrived at the cheese shop at closing on our last visit to Melton, of course we had to go back and spend some quality time. There were two people working in the shop (which is a hole in the wall shop) and they were so helpful and friendly. They asked if we were on holiday or had moved there (I wish!!) and asked us about our trip.

There was so much delicious looking cheese, it was so hard to decide. We still had some of our Stilton Blue Cheese left from our last visit so we settled on  brie and local Leicestershire Red (cheddar). The man in the shop said that the red cheddar is made with milk from cows that graze on the field where the Battle of Bosworth was fought. Of course, that meant nothing to Eric and Austin but I knew the significance of that field! Of course it doesn't really matter for the cheese but it's a cool piece of history as the Battle of Bosworth was the last significant battle of the War of the Roses, where Henry Tudor was victorious and so began the Tudor Dynasty. That's the amazing thing about England...history is all around you!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bosworth_Field

Eric also bought a bottle of local Gin but I was too busy sampling cheese to pay much attention to that! 

So much delicious cheese

After we left the cheese shop we did some more exploring around town and made another stop at the Melton Pork Pie shop for some dinner to go. All in all, it was a nice relaxing day.