Last day walking in The Cotswolds from Cold Ashton to Bath the final 16 km of 160 km

Bath Abbey, the end of our walk ( or the start for those doing the walk up to Chipping Camden). We made it!  A walk much harder than we expected!  But so worth it!

Along the way we meet more cows... I try my cow song again..

Black cow is curious and walks to the fence..

A couple of cows and the bull (he's got the white stripe down his face) get up and push black cow away

I can touch him...

White face sniffs me- her way of getting information about the strange two legged?

The stiles along the way, some old stone, some wood, some steel...

Enjoying the last views before we spot Bath..

Memorial to the battle of Landsdown.

Our first views of Bath, 155 km of walking.. 

Last hill before Bath...savoring every colour of green..before "city life". Strange after spending so much time and space in the country...

Walking through the park in Bath to The Abbey, final destination of the walk.

At last, the cathedral, and at the cathedral a brass wheel of all the towns we have passed through..

It's quite emotional, and feeling filled with gratitude for the journey.

We go to our hotel, what luxury!  Then we spend a week with Robs family outside Bath, and can unpack!

Eighth day walking in The Cotswolds from Little Sodbury (a mistake) to Cold Ashton about 18 km

A selfie taken against one metre of the hundreds of thousands of metres of stonewalling...

Our bnb is in Chipping Sodbury, but we need to start walking from Little Sodbury... Because of blisters, aches in body parts that are surprised by the exercise ( this walk is harder than we expected) my knee ligament and Robs stress fracture, we decide to cut out a couple of kms by starting in Old Sodbury.  The taxi driver drops us at the start of the walk and off we go....its a good early start around 8 a.m.

Through a long field

And on and on...

Rob begins to feel uneasy... We are walking through an old fort, not marked on our map..

We get to a road and it says Little Sodbury- ....$@& it- we've walked the wrong way back along the route we wanted to cut out.  Now we walk it twice!    With a " little" curse or two, we walk back and on to Old Sodbury... One of the highlights is this glorious and unexpected Dodington Park

Shining fields of soft wheat or barley? Not sure which..?

Golden fields of Rapeseed, which look as though the sun is shining on them...the yellow glows - picture of the day?

It's hot!  How lucky are we with the weather! Amazing views.

I love the country lanes which we walk along sometimes before we get back into the countryside.

The Cotswold Way is well marked with these posts..

Good resting seat!

As we walk into Dyrham woods, there is a message box, open the box, and there is a book which people write in... Fun to read the comments...

The Dutch 70 year olds have written in it above ours...Canada, Suffolk, Dutch, South Africa on one page..

The church at Cold Ashton...and then walking to the bnb ...

Seventh day walking in The Cotswolds from Wooten on Edge to Little Sodbury about 18 km

It's a day of poppies.. Fields of them..I always know I'm in England or Europe when I see poppies.sunshine predicted all day, but pretty soon the clouds build up..

Pizzas last night with two young Canadians, and two seventy something Dutch men... Both walk faster than Rob and I.  All walking to Bath.

We walk out of the pretty town of Wooten on Edge along a stream running through the village..

And pass the Anglican Church of St Mary's.  Beautiful old stonework.

And up the road which leads to...

Poppies...

And more poppies...

Along the way, rich mossy spring gushing out of rocky outcrop..

Along farm roads...wonderful views

The horses pose for us...

Through a magically lit path.. Strange light makes my eyes go funny... Felt I had to rub my eyes to see clearly...such dense greenery.

Along more road... Clouds building up...

Just before lunch the Dutch men catch us up in spite of us having an hour start on them!  They overtake us.

Past the monument. Erected in memory of Lord Robert Somerset . Fields of barley ....

And have Roast lunch (it's Sunday roast day and villagers. One from all over to have lunch too) at a delightful Inn along the way.

Where other cute creatures also want lunch, preferably mine... I've never seen such a huge head on a poodle , actually any dog..

Heading out after lunch with the two Canadians who caught us up just before we had lunch.  The boys Checking we're on the right road..

Different kind of Police Patrol.. Magnificent horse..

Wild Shasta daisies..

Passing the iconic landmark of The Cotswolds - a folly dedicated for swallows and barn owls..

So many different colours of green..

We get to Little Sodbury where we will be picked up and taken to our Bnb - 

Rinsing my mud-filled soles with attitude in a puddle while waiting.

We arrive in Sodbury Chipping for the night, a big old market town....

We have dinner in a Mexican restaurant, the best meal so far...view out of window to Chipping Sodbury main street - Chipping means "market"  (Getting a bit tired of fish and chips...)