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I am not comfortable linking to Fox News but this very short and very superficial article on the Cotswold Way was amusing.
FoxNews.com - Take a walk on the wild side in the Cotswolds, by Eileen Ogintz, December 08, 2014
1. The Cotswolds are hardly the "wild side". This is very tame countryside and on the Cotswold Way you are always a short walk from a village, road, pub or tea room.
2. "Sudeley Castle that once was home to royalty". By friggin King Henry VIII in the 16th century. Not just some distance branch of the current royal tree.
3. "You’ll walk on ancient footpaths, past bleating sheep." That's what you choose to point out from the 102 miles? The bleating sheep? How about the endless views over the Severn Valley to the Forest of Dean and into Wales? How about the hand built dry stone walls? How about magnificent, almost magic, trees that are hundreds of years old? Maybe walking through Iron Age promontory hill forts?
4. ".. villages with names like Chipping Campden, Bourton-on-the-Water to Winchcombe". Aren't we talking about the Cotswold Way? Bourton-on-the-Water (an over-rated tourist destination) is not on the Cotswold Way! Not even close really.
5. "Of course the Cotswolds, about a two hour train ride from London, is only one of Britain’s famous walks." The Cotswolds is an area, the Cotswold Way is a famous walk.
6. "The Wales Coastal Path is the only path that allows you to walk along the border of an entire country. " Wales is not an island, so a coastal path would not take you along the border of an entire country. But combined with Offa's Dyke Trail, you could walk around the whole country.
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Mooing cows on the Cotswold Way.
FoxNews.com - Take a walk on the wild side in the Cotswolds, by Eileen Ogintz, December 08, 2014
1. The Cotswolds are hardly the "wild side". This is very tame countryside and on the Cotswold Way you are always a short walk from a village, road, pub or tea room.
2. "Sudeley Castle that once was home to royalty". By friggin King Henry VIII in the 16th century. Not just some distance branch of the current royal tree.
3. "You’ll walk on ancient footpaths, past bleating sheep." That's what you choose to point out from the 102 miles? The bleating sheep? How about the endless views over the Severn Valley to the Forest of Dean and into Wales? How about the hand built dry stone walls? How about magnificent, almost magic, trees that are hundreds of years old? Maybe walking through Iron Age promontory hill forts?
4. ".. villages with names like Chipping Campden, Bourton-on-the-Water to Winchcombe". Aren't we talking about the Cotswold Way? Bourton-on-the-Water (an over-rated tourist destination) is not on the Cotswold Way! Not even close really.
5. "Of course the Cotswolds, about a two hour train ride from London, is only one of Britain’s famous walks." The Cotswolds is an area, the Cotswold Way is a famous walk.
6. "The Wales Coastal Path is the only path that allows you to walk along the border of an entire country. " Wales is not an island, so a coastal path would not take you along the border of an entire country. But combined with Offa's Dyke Trail, you could walk around the whole country.
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Mooing cows on the Cotswold Way.
