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Day 38: Rest Day
We enjoyed our free day in this lovely place, catching up with our blog and booking our next places to stay. I walked into town to post some birthday cards and get our LEJOG form stamped. The cherry on the cake was a visit from our friends Chris and Paul Graham, who drove over from…
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Day 37: Dumbleton to Evesham
This morning my legs cried out ‘no more walking’, but after a hot bath and a good breakfast I was ready to go, happy with the knowledge that it would be a short walk, concluding with a day’s rest in Evesham! Our walk was through small villages and farmland and no hills! It was uneventful…
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Day 36: Cheltenham to Dumbleton
We left Cheltenham on the Cheltenham Circular route, initially on pavements and then into fields and woodland. We crossed the Cotswold Way and left it behind as we climbed steeply to Cleeve Common, which is the highest part of the Cotswolds at 330 meters. It was surprisingly noisy – very few people but plenty of…
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Day 35: Painswick to Cheltenham
Today we followed the Cotswold Way for most of the day, initially on wide paths in open countryside, and then through beech woods. It was a really lovely walk, with ideal walking weather, but a lot of steep climbs again. Unfortunately there were no pubs or eating places en route, so we lunched on snack…
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Day 34: Dursley to Painswick
When planning our trip, I was determined to include as many National Trails as feasible. However, once we started on the Cotswold Way we decided that the main focus of choosing routes should be on our continued journey to JOG. We have therefore walked on a mix of trails this week, avoiding some of the…
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Day 33: Old Sodbury to Dursley
A long day today, starting off cold but in the afternoon lovely sunshine. We left our B&B to cross fields and once again found that farmers had planted crops across the public footpaths, or we encountered fields of cows – and a bull – where we needed to cross, and we had to walk the…
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Day 32: Cold Ashton to Old Sodbury
Today was perfect walking weather and we followed the Monarch Way rather than the Cotswold Way, through fields, footpaths and lanes. The terrain was varied, and at times we had to fight our way through overgrown paths and yes, more mud! Today we crossed the M4, which to us is a milestone. We were glad…
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DAY 31: Bath to Cold Ashton
New boots, and no mud – or so I thought, as we set out on the long climb out of Bath. It has been a lovely sunny day and the gentle rolling Cotswold scenery is stunning. The paths were really good for the first part of our walk, until we reached a building site across…
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Day 29 and 30: Rest Days
We decided to take a break in the lovely city of Bath, chiefly because I needed to replace my boots: I should have followed David’s example and bought new boots before setting out on our walk. Walking through water and mud for so many days finished my very comfortable boots, which were no longer waterproof.…
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Day 28: Temple Cloud to Bath
True to form, Mike and Carolyn arrived early to collect my bag, and I was really grateful that I have had several days break now, so my painful shoulder will be well and truly healed once we leave Bath. Before leaving Temple Cloud we stocked up on snacks at the garage opposite the inn, as…
WALKING WITH GRAMPY 