Blogs from Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 27

As a continuation of my efforts to see more of the UK as well as European nations, I headed to the Cotswolds this weekend with a group of friends. Although we were all Aussies - it seemed like a much more international affair. Three of us are now living in London, two were here on holidays from Australia (but had just flown to London from a 'great Alaskan adventure'), one is living in Geneva and the other in Zurich. We stayed in a cute little bed and breakfast in Winchcombe, a cute English country town among the rolling green hills (and yes - they are green at the moment now that there has been some rain) about 2.5 hours from London. The rooms were all decorated in ‘cute English country’ décor - in my case including ... read more

You are the lucky people that we have set up to receive automatic updates from our travel blog. They may go into your junk folder so please check so you don't miss our up to the minute nail biting entries. If you don't want to receive them you can unsubscribe yourself.....boring farts! We're still both going to use our hotmail accounts for emails etc but you can post short replies to these updates directly but be aware that everyone in the whole wide world can read them! Love Sam and Vic Xxx... read more

Oh, Strew just reminded me that we should tell you all what we've been doing since we left manchester at the beginning of August, after several tears shed, (including a bizarre outburst from myself outside the Cheese Hamlet in Didsbury(!?!) we set off (thrilled that we escaped the clutches of our evil landlord) to my Brothers in the cotswolds, where he owns a pub http://www.theebringtonarms.co.uk/attraction.htm it was agreat chance to relax, and we thought it would be brilliant to get back to nature and live the country life for a few days, needless to say we spent the majority of our time watching DVD's, complaining about the lack of shops that sold cigs and on one day we went to Drayton Manor Park. We're now in Cambridge, living with my mum for the next few weeks ... read more

Monday 10th July After a relaxing Sunday at Rob and Sasha’s Guest House in Worcester watching the Wimbledon men’s final and the World Cup Final, Rob dropped me off in Winchcombe and I was walking without my large backpack! I got through the last of the hills during the morning and then down onto the flat ground. I surprised myself at one point by catching some other walkers up as they were walking up a hill… I can only surmise that I must have been walking up hill faster than they were which, as most of you will know, is not like me at all! Highlight of the morning was seeing the sign (see photo) that there may be Bulls ahead and making the decision not to walk round, which would have been a 3 mile ... read more

Saturday 8th July This is my seventh day of continuous walking and I can definitely feel a bit of weariness setting into my legs. I got an early taxi back to Condicote and started exactly where I left off by the red telephone box. I was quite nervous about this day of walking since I think it is one of the hardest days due to the hills as I approach the edge of the Cotswolds. So it was a lot of uphill walking, then down and then up again... One of my hair-brain flights of fancy today was about designing a really light weight footbridge that you could span from the top of one hill to the next, sort of like spiders web bridges. And despite my fear of heights I would have been quite happy ... read more