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Cotswold Dreaming

A couple’s 102-mile adventure along The Cotswold Way

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Cotswold Dreaming

By: David Gardner
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 This highly entertaining travelogue from a bestselling author follows the adventures of a couple on their 102-mile hike along Britain’s famous Cotswold Way. Wendy and David, escaping the routine of home life, embark on a journey of wonder and discovery. It is one filled with romance, exquisite beauty, hilarious mishaps, and far more adventure than they had bargained for. Join them in the magic and fulfillment of this delightful journey from Chipping Campden in the north to the stunning city of Bath in the south. Wander through wildflower fields of kaleidoscopic colour, enter entranced woodlands, charming Cotswold villages, and paddocks with one too many grumpy bulls. You will experience as they do, the serenity of a world removed from the hustle, crowds, and noise of modern life. You will escape with them to a place where the pace slows right down, where you will experience the Cotswolds rather than simply observe them. You will absorb the sights, smells, and sounds and meet the unique characters that inhabit this most beautiful part of the world. Laugh out loud at the myriad of things that can and do go wrong on a walk of this length. See Wendy and David embarrass themselves, lose their way too many times, get on the wrong side of several upset animals, and understand their fear of curry houses. Share with them their love of traditional English pubs and one too many pints of lager. Take a glimpse into the region’s recent and more distant past, as local stories unfold in complex webs of historic intrigue. Follow as this couple stumbles across Elizabethan and Victorian mansions, vast manicured estates and numerous manor houses that dot a seductive landscape. You will visit remains and relics from Saxon conquests, Roman occupation and then wander back into the mists of time to visit our Neolithic and Mesolithic ancestors who inhabited this land up to nine thousand years ago. Excerpt from the Book The school bus on which we’ve hitched, winds its way through narrow, shaded roads with overhanging elms and willows for approximately eight miles before dropping us in the High Street of Chipping Campden. It’s a street which dates back to the 7th century and still shows signs of ruts left by the medieval carts that creaked along its cobbles. In the Domesday Book of 1086, Chipping Campden’s population was recorded as 300 souls and seventy-three households. Its value to the Lord of the Manor (Earl Harold) was annualized at £20. The village also sported twelve slaves, (three of whom were female), twenty-one plough teams, and two mills. To be honest, it looks like little has changed since then, except perhaps, the slaves and the land value. The village has that untouched feel to it that eludes most country settlements. Locals still go about their business in an unhurried way, gossiping with each other in the street, attending village meetings, and organizing social days for the church. I suspect they work and play in much the same way as they might have five hundred years ago. There is the medieval market square, late-Saxon churches, dry-stone walls, and traditional honey-coloured Cotswold cottages just as they have always been. In between, there is a tiny co-op, a hairdresser’s, a several time-honoured speciality shops and more ancient pubs. Surrounding the village, which sits in a broad, shallow valley, are the greenest of fields, acres and acres of them spotted with flocks of fat, woolly sheep grazing in small packs. They seem oblivious to the lucky straw they drew in being born and bred in such bountiful country, grazing endlessly on pasture that our poor sheep back home in Australia could only dream about. Strolling through narrow lanes, with views over a luxurious, unblemished landscape, it feels as if we have just stepped into a medieval fairy-tale, but without the disease and pestilence that usually plagues its people. Europe Great Britain Adventure
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