Dawn this morning revealed a cloudy sky and a weather prediction of a significant chance of rain. The tour organizer, as a result of accomodation booking problems, has organized a ten mile loop walk returning back here, instead of progressing on the Cotswold loop. The opportunity to walk ten miles in the rain to go nowhere in particular was not found appealing, so we opted to freelance it.
As we left through Bourton-on-the-Water a bakery called and we had morning tea and scones by the stream.
We headed out upstream along the river for a couple miles, then cut across country to Lower Slaughter and home again. This made a 5 mile walk that accomplished the same goals as their ten.
The weather held off all day without any recognizable rain.
Back in Bourton-on-the-Water, we decided to round out the day with an Afternoon Tea. We found that the chosen tea shop required 24 hours notice (to make sandwiches and put out cakes?), so it was back to last night’s resturant which did not need the notice. However their Afternoon Tea For Two was £20 per person, which after negotiation became Afternoon Tea For Two For One With One Added Tea for £22.65. It’s the idea, not the food value anyway. Even at £40, it still would be cheaper than the Empress.
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