Walk in Gloucestershire

Two weeks until the big walking challenge so we thought it best to do one more training walk. Looking for the opportunity to flex our hill walking muscles, we chose a route through the Cotswolds near Gloucester, about an hour and a half by train from London. Even though some of us were feeling rather exhausted and others had dire headaches, we set off into the rolling countryside under a beautiful blue sky.

Our walk, though not terribly long mileage wise, was quite difficult at times as we encountered several very steep, though short, climbs. It was truly gorgeous countryside with many brilliant views out over the Severn River Valley, with the Black Mountains in southern Wales on the horizon.

We had lunch on an outside patio of a country pub over looking the village and countryside in the distance, complete with cricketeers was pretty much as English as it can get!

We wandered through a few quaint Cotswolds villages, including Painswick, which featured the stereotypical stone houses often seen in Thomas Kinkade prints.

It was a perfectly relaxing day, well as much as can be expected when walking 13 or so miles!


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