E: 09/08 Win a luxury break in the Cotswolds worth £1,200

Etch

Sunday Times Where Was I? competition

(www.thetimes.co.uk/travel/where-was-i)

The prize:

The winner and guest will stay for two nights, B&B, in a junior suite at Minster Mill in Oxfordshire. Set in 65 leafy riverside acres on the outskirts of Minster Lovell, this honey-stoned complex is handy for day trips to Blenheim Palace, Oxford and Bicester Village as well as serene walks in the Windrush Valley.

Back at base, guests can relax in the Garden Spa, play croquet or take a fly-fishing lesson before heading to the beamed Mill Bar for wine or cocktails. Dinner is served in the three-AA-rosette restaurant, where the chef, Andrew Campbell, mines a rich vein of seasonal and local ingredients with dishes such as truffled Westcombe ricotta and Cotswold venison loin.

The prize includes dinner for two (excluding drinks) on both nights. The prize must be taken between October 4, 2023, and March 27, 2024, subject to availability and excluding Mondays and Tuesdays (when the hotel is closed), as well as the following blackout periods: December 23-January 2, February 14 and March 12-16.

The prize is not transferable and there is no cash alternative. Travel to and from Minster Mill is not included. The prize excludes anything not specified in the prize description. Any extras must be paid for on departure by the prize winner or guest.

Questions

1. What is the name of the second town?

Answer: Huntingdon

2. What is the name of the river?

Answer: River Great Ouse

susiq

I thought the town was St Ives?

"The second stop is 15 miles west-southwest of the first as the cannonball flies. A small town, named after a saint, it was once home to an important cloth market. My subject lived somewhere in this town before moving to the city, and is commemorated here by a rare statue."

Etch

St Ives is the first town, the first stop being the city of Ely. "The third stop is four and a half miles west of the statue. We’re on a bank of the same river that flows alongside our other stops, on the southern edge of a second town."

susiq

Ah 🫣 Thank you! Why did I ever doubt you🤔