The Language of Love There’s a foreign language I’ve been yearning to learn.  I thought I would have to go back to school, yet again, and sit and listen to some aloof and quite learned professor in a classroom painted supposedly mellow yellow.  He would dispassionately teach ah, yet, one more class of bored disinterested […]

Start:  Cold Ashton Finish:  Bath Mileage:  11 miles It was with great lament and sadness that I went to bed last night knowing that today would be the last day of our trek 105 miles south from Chipping Camden winding our way all the way down to Bath.  Standing on top of some of the […]

Start:  Little Sodbury Finish:  Cold Ashton Mileage:  11 miles After traipsing through the forest and down the hill, we landed in a small hamlet where we accosted two village women who were more than happy to take our picture with the Cotswold sign.  They were not only willing to play photographer for us, but told […]

Day 7 Start:  Wotten-under-Edge Stop:  Little Sodbury Mileage:  12 miles, plus a few extra jaunts up and down a couple of hills! Today we descended off the last hilltop of the escarpment itself.  Immediately the countryside started looking very different.  Instead of steep ascents with long, long vistas while we roamed around up top and […]

Start:  Middle Yard Stop:  Wotten-Under-Edge Mileage:  15.5 (I’m a bit behind due to lack of internet, but here’s the update on Day 6). OK, it was a very long day today but another glorious one.  Have to say when hiking straight up one hill and then following our trail along the top of the escarpment […]