From: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Started: 20191002
Finished: 20191010
Placing one foot in front of the other day after day, knowing there were no decisions to be made about what to wear or what to do each morning, stopping to gaze over the sigh-inspiring vistas, looking cows in the eye and willing them to move, scraping boots caked with mud after passing through another farmer’s field, appreciating the downs after the steep ups, indulging in forest bathing, and feeling like you truly deserved that second or third pint at the end of the day–all of these were part of our wonderful experience walking the Cotswold Way. We loved the yews at St. Mary’s in Painswick, couldn’t believe there were people golfing on the blustery rainy day that we passed over Cleeve Common, and appreciated the bench dedicated to Stewart Burgess overlooking Bath where we stopped for a rest and a snack on our last day. It is over a month later and details of our journey still come to us and we are so happy to have done the walk.