Sunday 3rd May 2026

This morning the weather had cleared up. We headed north trying to avoid the Bristol Clean Air Zone. We were unsuccessful in this and accidentally entered the zone and incurred a £9 charge! We stopped at an M5 service area to take on water and dump waste.

We stopped for the day at a layby in the Malvern Hills opposite this expansively decorated Malvern Water spout. People kept coming and going with containers they filled with the water.

The area around he layby is heavily wooded. Here's the view from our sliding door.

Here are some of the decorations around the water spout.

The water spout is maintained by Severn Trent Water with the help of the National Lottery!

Something was about to happen. I realised the man with the short skirt, fishnet stockings and yellow boots was the head honcho! Lots of people started turning up. There was traffic chaos!

The ceremony began.

It was all about giving thanks for the water and blessing the water spout.

The traffic became even more chaotic.....

The head honcho led the lengthy proceedings wearing his pheasant feather headdress!

There was lot of poetry reading, banging of drums and singing. Weird but interesting. Soon after this had all finished it started to rain. Later on at least three other vans turned up and stayed overnight in the layby.

Today we travelled 98 miles (158 kilometres). We are at: N52.1009 W2.3459 Water Spout   Street View