First Cache on Trail
Caches = 37, 1 could not look.
Central Loop
Northern Loop
Great Cotswolds Walk - Southern
The Central loop was completed in July, the Northern Loop in August and I made a promise to get back and finish off the Southern Loop by the end of September.
A couple of other projects got in the way. First off, I finished the Capital Ring which gave me the inspiration to invent a circular walk around our 2nd City - The Brummie Ring.
Sorry about that, I seem to have more ideas than time.
2nd apology is that I have dated all today's logs with the 7/10/13. Obviously getting ahead of myself.
I have a wonderful drive down today. Serious mist patches, reach their aesthetic peak at the Avon flood plain, near Tewkesbury, with low swirls around the water under cobalt skies. If I could have stopped on the hard shoulder for a photo, I would have. It then clears completely, promising a great day, before re-appearing as I get to Cirencester.
First part of the walk shrouded in a Victorian pea souper.
Arrive at Quenington for my usual parking space. The tape promises a Cotwoldian murder mystery but it is a rather more mundane car boot sale on the village green.
Car Boot most horrid |
North on roads, before turning left onto a great path. No point in taking photos in the grey, so contend myself with the caches. After two previous journeys, I know what to expect.
Do 16, with nothing much to report, apart from dropping off a TB. Number 109 is in a copse and it takes me a while to find, but the great news is that the fog has lifted when I come out of the trees and back into the fields.
The vista that had been cruelly denied |
Into Fairford. It promises an historic church, which I see in the distance but don't get too close to. I am sure that I will be back.
Underneath a flight path |
I am interested in what happens next, as the trail is not marked on footpaths on the maps. On arriving at GZ, I can see there is a permissible path that will take me all the way back to Quenington.
This is most pleasant walking, along the River Coln.
The route is open |
The River Coln |
Will I make it in time?
Naturally. |
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