Cotswolds

The Romantic Drive – Cotswold 19-20^th July

After a couple of rainy weekends, we found a weekend with half decent weather to do our first road trip in the UK, the romantic Cotswold. We picked up our hired car Sat morning, and after getting over the shock of petrol prices, and our GPS in placed, we headed off to the English countryside.

Joe was happy to be behind the driving seat, although the little Ford Fiesta was no Golf, it was nice to cruise along the highway away from the city life. The drive reminded us of the numerous road trips we enjoyed back home, however the added advantage here is that the GPS beeps at you when speed cameras were coming up.

The Cotswold is a lovely place, made up many small quaint towns. Cute little English cottages with pretty gardens lined the streets of the town. The English have preserved this area so well, although only an hour and a half away from London, it was light years apart. We felt like we stepped back in time, and everything was moving in slow motion.

We visited various towns such as Stow on the Wold, Lower Slaughter, Bourton the Water, Stanton & Winchcombe and enjoyed numerous Devonshire cream teas in the gardens… very “English”Our favourite was Boughton on the Waters, not only was it the prettiest town (apparently it’s the Venice of the Cotswold with its canals and footbridge) it was the most memorable, as it there we received the phone call from our good friends, Vicks and Vinh who have just given birth to their 2^nd son Isaac. Congratulations guys!