One final pool session has been called for 7am.   Our next hotel doesn't have a pool and opinion is divided about whether that is a blessing or not.   A not-so-leisurely breakfast follows then its time to check out.   After a bit of to-ing and fro-ing, the transport is sorted with some vehicles going to Bath and Stonehenge and others going who-knows where.   All the Queenslanders have seen Bath and the rocks before and figure they wont have moved much since last time.   So we head off to have a look around Gloucester before heading over to Cheltenham.   Brian, Peter Howes and his partner Steph follow us in the luggage van.

Gloucester which sits on the banks of the River Severn, was founded in AD 97 by the Romans under Emperor Nerva as Colonia Glevum Nervensis .   A Colonia was the residence of retired legionaries and enjoyed the highest status in the Empire.

Before heading off to the mandatory (for me, anyway) coffee stop I tried out a couple of sports stores in the town centre in Gloucester.   I need a new pair of wicket-keeping inners. Neither store stock them but the assistant in the second one was a classic. "I don't know nuffing about cricket" he says. I thought about asking why he was working in a sports store - in England after all - but thought better of it.

The others have drifted off so I have a wander down to the old docks area and spend an hour or so in the Waterways Museum.   After re-uniting at the car park we finish off the drive in to Cheltenham.   Its only about 20 - 30 minutes away.

Having checked into our hotel, we are told our room is on the second floor - 42 stairs, no lift and the stairwells twist and turn and are extremely narrow . No way am I dragging my cricket bag up and down there every day so it can stay in the luggage van.   Its bad enough carting my suitcase up there but at least that will be a one-off. I have several days worth of washing that needs doing so its off to the local laundromat - about a 20 minute walk away.   While the machine is doing its thing I have time for a brief stroll thru the High Street and even time for a pint of Hobgoblin at the pub around the corner.

We had been having problems for more than half an hour getting the internet working in the hotel, so to prove it just wasn't my laptop I head back into the High street and have a coffee at Starbucks and use their WiFi. That's working fine and of course by the time I return to the hotel, their problems have been sorted out too.

The Queensland boys decide that a Thai meal would be nice tonight so we wander back into town and share a meal and a bottle of wine for 18 pound each.   Much cheaper than eating in the hotel.   A cleansing ale after we return and then its ready for bed.   Tomorrow's game is the only County Over 60's team that we will play so it will be a big game.   Unfortunately its my turn to be rotated out but that will at least give my knee one more day to improve.