From Wotton Under Edge to Gloucester - 20.5 miles. We had expected this to be about 24 miles but managed to shorten it by cutting out some of the more rambling bits of the Cotswold Way. It did, however, mean that the final section into Gloucester from the south was very tedious - about 5 miles walking beside a busy main road.
Generally we try to avoid main roads, prefering instead to walk on minor roads or footpaths. Sometimes the footpaths are hard to find or peter out. This afternoon we were crossing a field on a footpath marked on our OS map but the footpath clearly hadn't been used in a while. We found ourselves in the corner of a field with no way out other than to climb under a barbed wire fence and then crawl on hands and knees for about 10 metres through a hawthorne copse dragging our rucksacks behind us. I can still feel the after effects of the stinging nettles.
We have now walked 273 miles since leaving Lands End.
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Dave
ReplyDeleteexcellent narrative..like the B and B commnets versus the Hostels...and liked the Blonde aspect .....washing as well must have made a great impression...does she own a Pub as well!!!!
Hope all goes well and that not too many brambles and birbed wire assult courses ahead...
Happy Easter...
Salty Sea dog
My "back of the envelope" maths says you've done a quarter of the distance to J o'G.
ReplyDeleteI want to go back to your answer the other day to the question 'what do you talk about?' If I remeber corrctly your reply was 'Initially politics....'
ReplyDeleteHow do you do that? Is it something like 'SWDYTOGBT?' reply 'IAABWAQE'?, 'HAJSHWP?' 'BHDGAFAMOT' - 'PTWTP!'
Must be fascinating!
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Any aches/pains/blisters yet?