Day 2 Dursley to Wotton-under-Edge

Day 2 and another good day with our driver turning up exactly at the booked time to take us to the town of Dursley for our 8 mile walk back to Wotton-under-Edge. This walk did not have quite as much climbing and it took us through many fields planted with various crops. We did manage to find a pub that was open but the Landlord was not serving food today and seemed more interested in the British Grand Prix on the TV.



This field was planted with both Peas and Barley mixed together and we wondered why this would be. One person thought it was for soup and would save mixing it later but the real answer thanks to the Internet was that it was used for sileage as a high protean diet for cattle. It may have been a late summer but on the Cotswolds all the fields we went through that had been planted with various crops were showing signs of being an excellent crop this year.



The Monument in the distance is the Tyndale Monument built to commemorate William Tyndale, translator of the Bible into English.

On the hill above Wotton-under-Edge is this group of striking Conifers. They are replacements for trees originally planted in 1815 to celebrate the victory of Waterloo.

On the last leg of the walk into Wotton-under-Edge we were met by several Ponies and this one in particular took a liking to Tom and followed him down the hill nibbling at his rucksack all the time.

It had of course smelled food and was duly rewarded with a pear.

Wotton-under-Edge from the hill above.