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| Day 1 on the Saturday and we had booked a local taxi firm to take us to the village of Hawksbury so we could walk back to Wotton-under-Edge. The owner/driver was very helpful and he was contracted for the week to ferry us back and forward to the start and from the finish of various walks. The weather was excellent and 8 of us set out to walk the 9.4 miles back to Wotton. This walk took us through some lovely small villages but our big mistake was when we took a detour to a pub advertised on a signpost on the Cotswold Way as being "Open all Day". We thought if we arrived at 11.30 it would be open so we took the detour and found the pub well and truly closed. This would be sign of things to come regarding Pubs. |
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| This curiosely oriental-looking monument called the Somerset Monument has nothing to do with the Far East nor, geographically, with Somerset. It was built to commemorate the achievements of General Lord Robert Somerset, whose main claim to fame was his roll in the Battle of Waterloo. |
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| The weather was warming up and the local sheep took advantage of the many trees on the edge of the field. The Cotswold Way has a variety of routes with about a third of the "Way" going through thickly wooded areas and then the path would open out onto an escarpment which gave us superb views over the Severn Valley on one side. Just after we passed these sheep we were given a low level flypast by the Red Arrows on their way to an Air Display. |
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| These 2 Stags guarded the entrance to one of the many large estates on the route. |
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