From: Massachusetts, USA
Started: 20131016
Finished: 20131026
Lovely old beech trees; well-behaved cows, sheep & horses; pristine pastures, farmlands and golf courses and the privilege of meandering through them; quaint villages and friendly, helpful people; pubs & conversation; comfortable B&B’s at the end of a long day of walking; delicious food; historical artifacts/events with information signs; reaching the tops of the hills that didn’t seem to have a top; spotting those Cotswold Way sign posts just when we started to wonder what happened!! We thank you in advance and Commend You for Your Wonderful National Treasure in the Cotswold Way!!
Suggestion: We are not golfers, so we don’t know the etiquette involved when a golf ball narrowly misses your head and lands on the trail in front of you. A golfer probably 75 yards from us was waving his arm at us which we took to mean ‘please toss the ball back onto the green’. After we did that and continued walking, pangs of guilt came over us as we reconsidered that maybe the golfer really was saying ‘leave the ball alone and get the heck away from it’. Oops… When we got home, I checked with my brother-in-law who is a golfer, he confirmed that we should not have touched the ball. Therefore, we were wondering if it might be a good idea for the Cotswold Way organisation to place some signage on the trail about proper hiker etiquette at the golf courses… Unless, of course, the golfers already have a hiker-handicap built into their game. ((: