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The taxi picked us up this morning and took us back to Stow-on-the-Wold. We wandered around the now vacant town square (Sunday morning), and had a good look inside the church. I particularly liked the carved faces on the arch corbels.
It also had an interesting wooden roof support structure.
The walk was much the same as yesterday. Narrow paths, open fields, many gates, lots of cows, and tip toeing through the minefield that is an active cow pasture.
The weather was the same today as yesterday. Lovely.
We arrived at the strategically located Lower Slaughter just before noon to have lunch at the local pub. The local church was in the midst of Sunday services so we did not see inside.
We continued on down a path beside the River Eye (a river that could safely be crossed in a running jump) and ended up back at our b&b in Bourton-on-the-Water. It was only a 7 km day – what we do before breakfast at home.
Vic spent the afternoon huddled in the shade of the house where the wifi signal is strongest, entering pictures.
We wandered into town in late afternoon for dinner. The church was open as we passed so we had a look inside It had an interesting ceiling painted with the heraldic crests important in its history, plus some finely done stained glass windows. The church itself is intersting as it has a metal dome instead of a steeple.
Being Sunday, everyone in the whole country is in the town square taking in the sunny day and consuming ice cream. The ‘town square’ is actually the long linear area on both sides of the River Windrush, which is crossed by a number of small stone arched bridges.
The river is well maintained and the banks stone buttressed. The tourist bureau bills Bourton-on-the-Water as ‘the Venice of the Cotswolds’. No gondolas though, as it is so shallow the ducks actually WALK upstream. Small children play in it without fear.
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