Three Men On Tour: 21

Gloucester Waterways museum is situated, unsurprisingly, in Gloucester and is an unexpectedly entertaining insight into the Canals and Waterways of yesteryear. It includes a detailed history of how goods were transported in Victorian times, a model lock system where the young and young at heart can spend hours moving the miniature boats up and down, and even a full sized narrow boat in which you are left unsupervised to explore to your hearts content.

The only area which really lets the side down is the café, which fails to provide even a close facsimile of a decent cream tea. In fact, it proved impossible to find a decent tea shop anywhere in Gloucester. We did manage to find one tea shop which combined uninspiring cakes and soggy sandwiches with a palpable feel that the staff would be happier if they didn’t have to deal with all these annoying customers.

We were told that one glorious tea shop exists in Cheltenham, one which transports you back in time to an age where the customer was king, and high tea was a social compunction rather than a mere fuel stop in the bustle of the day. We failed to find it.

It is possible that such a remnant to a bygone age exists in Stroud, a mere few minutes down the motorway. Stroud is mostly famous for its market.