3 Mar 2014

The Shire - following J.R.R. Tolkien's footprints

Yesterday we had to give ourroom to other customers and stay again in six people room so we decided to do something and avoid it. I made plan before coming to Birmingham that I want visit in Sarehole Mill, place which inspired Tolkien in his books and was his childhood place.
" It was a kind of lost paradise ... There was an old mill that really did grind corn with two millers, a great big pond with swans on it, a sandpit, a wonderful dell with flowers, a few old-fashioned village houses and, further away, a stream with another mill. I always knew it would go — and it did."
Place was magical, even it's only early spring now. I bet it will look even magical on Summer. Too bad the mill is closed now and they make tours on Summer and Autumn. But we went to there we only could.


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