Sunday, April 28, 2024

The Cotswolds

Ok, yesterday was a slow day to help everyone recharge after several long tour days. Rain was also a little heavier than normal for us anyway, but not for the locals. We were introduced to the Cotswolds.

Here’s how the official Cotswold Website describes the region. 


Welcome to the Cotswolds, a very special, very wonderful place. A short break or even an extended holiday in the Cotswolds will leave you wanting more and you’ll be booking your next Cotswolds holiday as soon as you return home!

The Cotswolds covers a huge area – almost 800 square miles – and runs through five counties (Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Wiltshire and Worcestershire). One of the delights of visiting the Cotswolds is exploring the different areas, each with its own identity, yet all with those defining Cotswold features: golden stone and rolling hills.

I’ll just say it is very English countryside/like and we enjoyed our visit  The day ended at a “nano-brewery”, The Cotswolds Lakes Brewery, where we were schooled on the art of making beers and ales.  A microbrewery is a small brewery, a nano-brewery is a very small brewery making small batch brews, we tasted brews that only exist in Cotswolds Lakes.  We lunched in Burton-on-the-Water and our visit ended with a Cotswolds barbecue,  pretty good, Tomorrow, pop Liverpool and the Beetles museum

Pam with a full English breakfast. The black thing in the foreground is Blavk Pudding, never ever order. 

Chellimgham, Town church. Even the small towns had big churches because early townspeople believed a big church would help you get to heaven. 
Did I say it was raining?

Chellimgham

Lunch in Burton-on-the-Water. 

They have pay-phones and they work. 
Burton-on-the-Water
Can you hear me now?
Boutique beers
Young financial advisor turned brewmaster. Soon to be very wealthy. 
English barbecue pork and mac n cheese. 
Jim