{"id":209,"date":"2014-06-01T23:55:50","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T22:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/?p=209"},"modified":"2014-07-02T04:22:06","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T03:22:06","slug":"day-3-on-to-stanton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/?p=209","title":{"rendered":"Day 3 – On to Stanton"},"content":{"rendered":"

As planned, we started today off with a scrumptious full English breakfast. I’m not the world’s biggest egg eater, but that was a delicious egg that I knew I needed the nutrition from for the walk we were about to set out\u00a0on. We left\u00a0Cornerways Cottage at about 10 minutes until 9:00 and turned towards the north. While north is not the prominent direction that the Cotswold Way progresses, it was the way that led us out of Chipping Campden, up through the neatest hedge, and past the place where the annual Cotswolds Olimpicks<\/a>\u00a0are held.<\/p>\n

Let’s back up about 100m and 45 minutes before we passed the Olimpick site, however. While the Cotswold Way is all in all a relatively well marked national trail, when you’re doing something for the first time, it is understandable to get a little confused. As we approached the top of the first major hill we came up for the day out of Chipping, some pretty cute sheep got us distracted and we ended up on a “Cotswold Circular Path” rather than the Cotswold\u00a0National Trail… To make a long story short, the trail guidebook quickly came out to save us from any more unnecessary excursions\u2014excursions that cost us about 45 minutes and a hike down then back up the largest hill I’ve ever seen.<\/p>\n

With the trail guide in hand, we were back on the straight and narrow and making good time on our way to Broadway\u2014the half way point for today’s walk. There’s not a lot to say about the actual walking itself. Some of it was muddy; some on gravel; some through fields; some on roadways. Before making it all the way to Broadway, we came upon Broadway Tower<\/a>. For\u00a0\u00a34.90 we were able to climb to the top for a view that stretched over 13 counties.<\/p>\n

Just down the hill from the tower was the town of Broadway. For lunch we found a caf\u00e9 and for dessert had an ice cream cone with a flake from a street vendor. Broadway was a neat town, buzzing with townsmen and their families enjoying the very mild Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Spending just enough time in Broadway to grab a bite to eat and catch our breath, we headed out and rejoined the trail. The last half of the walk for today\u00a0was a bit more\u00a0of an endurance test than the first half. Much hillier, muddier, and did I say hillier? Wow it was hilly! I hope the photos I took today will be able to capture the true essence of the landscapes we encountered. We walked\u00a0(nearly rolled\u00a0actually due to the steepness of the descent) into Stanton in the best part of the afternoon and found our B&B (The Old Post House) sitting quietly on the side\u00a0of the main street in town. Another gorgeous home and another lovely family, we made ourselves at home in our room and took some time off our feet.<\/p>\n

Out B&B owner made us a 7:00 reservation for dinner at the only pub in town\u2014The Mount Inn. Cleverly\u00a0named as it is the highest building around, the dinner was absolutely fantastic. I had a veggie burger that was completely contrary to our idea of veggie burgers in the States. This had vegetables on it. Fried, sliced and stacked into a hamburger sized portion.<\/p>\n

This evening I posted photos from Day 2 to the Photo Stream<\/a>\u00a0and typed up a full post of what happened on Day 2. Tomorrow’s walk will take us to Cleeve Hill and it has the potential to be a wet day. Fingers crossed for another day of sun and stripping off layers to beat the heat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As planned, we started today off with a scrumptious full English breakfast. I’m not the world’s biggest egg eater, but that was a delicious egg that I knew I needed the nutrition from for the walk we were about to set out\u00a0on. We left\u00a0Cornerways Cottage at about 10 minutes until 9:00 and turned towards the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}