Short trip to Shere

Today we decided to go to Shere. Noone really wanted to go, but kids locked in for too long is not good for anything.

Shere is a beautiful little village a ten minute drive from Guildford with picturesque houses. The Tillingbourne stream with lots of ducks goes straight through and it has got a ford we didn't cross by car. We walked over a footbridge instead.

There are two pubs in the village centre - one called the White Horse and the other called William Bray. We decided to get afternoon tea at the White Horse, originally a 15th century farm, but an inn since the 17th century. The Doom Bar was as it should be and the sandwiches were really nice. The children saw the crisps they got with the sandwiches as a bonus. All in all exactly as a traditional English pub should be :-)

The William Bray looks a bit more up-market and is certainly a place I would like to visit next time.

The village also houses a few shops. Among them a trekking and outdoors shop, a grocers, a florist, a greengrocer's and an interior design shop. The village also had its own bric-a-brac shop, the Shere Shop, where you can buy anything from bottle openers with real scorpions in the handle to night gowns. It clearly got the longest visit of the day. We missed out on the Lucky Duck - the local tea room, and will have to come back for that as well...

For many, Shere is a place to start the hike through the Downs or the Surrey Hills. For us it was a nice place to visit, just to get out a bit. We are sure to visit again.