Walking the Cotswold Way With Kids: Our 8-Day Itinerary
THE COTSWOLDS, ENGLAND
“Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” -Mary Oliver
We did it!!! After eight days of hiking, an alarming number of pastries, more sheep than I could possibly count, and one very unexpected trip to the hospital (everyone is fine!), our family of five walked the Cotswold Way. And goodness, what an adventure!
The Cotswold Way is a 102-mile National Trail through southwest England, following the Cotswold escarpment from Chipping Campden to Bath. It meanders past honey-colored stone cottages, centuries-old inns, and some of the prettiest vistas we've ever seen. Most people take somewhere around seven to ten days to walk the whole thing. Garrett and I originally planned this walking holiday for our anniversary, but then the kids caught wind of it and asked to come too :) So all five of us (kids ages 13, 11 and 9) flew to England, spent a few days getting over jet lag in London, and then headed to the Cotswolds.
Before we left, I had SO many questions. Could a nine-year-old really walk 15+ miles in a day? Where would we eat? Should we get a sherpa service to transfer luggage from one inn to the next or carry it all? Would we get lost? We kept detailed notes as we went, so this is our exact itinerary: mileage, hotels, meals, logistics, kids experiences, and what we'd do differently. Plus lots of pictures of pretty cottages along the way (with names like Loveday House and Cozy Cottage :). Let’s get into it…
Our Cotswold Way Itinerary at a Glance
Day - Route - Our mileage - Where we stayed
Day 1 Chipping Campden to Broadway, 5.90 miles, The Lodge at Broadway
Day 2 Broadway to Cleeve Hill 17.64 miles, The Rising Sun
Day 3 Cleeve Hill to Birdlip, 16.24 miles, The Royal George
Day 4 Birdlip to Painswick, 8.05miles, The Falcon Inn
Day 5 Painswick to Stonehouse, 8.55 miles*, Stonehouse Court
Day 6 Stonehouse to Wotton-under-Edge, 15.77 miles, The Swan Hotel
Day 7 Wotton-under-Edge to Tormarton, 16.06 miles, The Compass Inn
Day 8 Tormarton to Bath, 18.90miles, Bath Airbnb
*We didn't quite finish the planned walk on day five due to an unplanned hospital trip (more on that below).
My watch totaled 107.11 miles, a little more than the official 102. But that’s to be expected since we walked directly in and out of our hotels, wandered through villages, stopped for food, and occasionally took a shortcut or a longcut using other local footpaths before reconnecting with the Cotswold Way.
Getting to the Cotswold Way
We flew into London Heathrow and after a few days of sight seeing, we took the GWR train from London Paddington to Moreton-in-Marsh, arriving at 11:19am. With our Family & Friends discount Railcard (it saves us a bundle on the kids’ tickets!), tickets for two adults and three kids were £100.65. I booked all of our train tickets about a month in advance since prices increase the closer you get.
There isn't a train station at the northern trailhead, so we called a taxi service the night before and had a van waiting at Moreton-in-Marsh to take us to Chipping Campden. And then we started walking.
Hot tip: Paddington Station has a M&S grocery inside the station and you really can’t load up on too many snacks/candy/quick energy if you’re walking with kids.
Luggage Transfer: Absolutely Worth It
We used Cotswold Luggage Transfers for our sherpa serve, and they were fantastic. I emailed them with our list of stops while planning and they were responsive and incredibly helpful. I'd hoped they could take our bags on day one too, but bags need to be ready by 8:30am and we were arriving from London after their morning collection window, so we carried everything from Chipping Campden to Broadway ourselves. Thankfully it was only 5.9 miles because...oof. Would NOT recommend carrying luggage if you can help it.
For the other seven days, all five of us packed our backpacks, extra shoes, toiletries, souvenirs and miscellaneous Harry Potter Shop loot into two large packable duffels each morning. We dropped them off in the inn’s lobby by 8:30am and the luggage service transported them to the next inn by 4pm. Garrett and I hiked with small daypacks with water, snacks, pb&nuttella, jackets, and minimal first aid supplies.
Transfers cost us £6.60 per bag per transfer, so moving our two bags seven times came to £92 total, and on the last day they delivered everything to a luggage storage center in Bath (which they recommended to us) since we were staying in an Airbnb and didn’t have a reception desk to claim them.
Long story short, sherpa service is worth every penny. Seriously, can’t recommend it enough!
Booking Rooms for a Family of Five (the Trickiest Part)
I booked our hotels a few months in advance, and honestly, finding accommodations that fit five people was the hardest part of planning this whole trip. We knew we’d be looking at 2 rooms most of the time, but even then, a lot of the inns only showed rooms with double occupancy. So I emailed the ones that listed a max of four, asked if we could add a fifth person, and it was never an issue.
My goal was a real bed for each of us so we didn't have to haul sleeping bags, and we pretty much pulled it off. The one exception was Broadway, where the extra cot they planned to bring us broke before we arrived, so someone ended up on the couch. Another tip: we booked refundable rates everywhere we could, so if plans changed or a better price popped up, we could rebook.
Picking hotels and inns that we could walk to was really important to me. That just seemed like the essence of this trip. There's something so charming about finishing a long day on foot, strolling into an old village, opening the door of an inn, and knowing you're done until morning. So we prioritized inns along the trail or close by so didn’t do any taxing from the trail.
Hot tip: there are a lot of companies that will put together your itinerary and book your hotels for you - it would have saved a lot of upfront work, though they charge per person so for our family of 5 it was too expensive. Companies I heard mentioned included Macs Adventure, Contours, and Cotswold Walks.
How to follow the trail
The trail is clearly marked with acorn signs along the way. It meanders through sheep fields and villages, tucking behind houses and farms, and cutting straight through golf courses. It’s easy to miss a turn so a map app is really helpful.
Before leaving, I upgraded my All Trails membership to the Peak level so I could download the trail map. If we lost service I really wanted to be able to still follow the map and see our gps location on it. Highly recommend! AllTrails has their Cotswold Way trail map broken up into 15 segments and at the beginning of each day I would start the segment and follow along throughout (sometimes we’d do 2 or 3 segments in a day and sometimes just 1). AllTrails will also notify you if you’re off trail which was really handy.
Just for fun, I also tracked our mileage on Strava. Each morning I’d turn on a new Strava walking segment and would finish it when we made it to our hotel in the evening. Looking back, we averaged around 20-22 minutes/mile. It’s fun to have a record of our daily mileage on there!
And here’s where I will put in a plug for rechargeable power banks! I used mine to charge my phone every single day and felt like it was basically a safety necessity. When you’re following a map on your phone, you really don’t want that phone to die. And when I had to unexpectedly call 999 for paramedics, that battery pack got me through my 40 minute call with dispatch (more on that below).
food & water
Most mornings we ate breakfast at the inn or a coffee shop nearby. The pastries in England were a big highlight of our trip and we ate my weight in almond croissants :) We always traveled with bread, peanut butter, and nutella for lunch but often stopped at a pub for a pint and pie or sandwhich instead, eating our pack food for snacks. And speaking of snacks, we were never without crisps and Digestive cookies and candy. Constant fuel is what kept those little 9-year-old legs moving :) Dinner was always a larger meal at the Inn or nearby.
We traveled with a bunch of disposable water bottles that we would refill every chance we got. Sometimes, when we couldn’t find a faucet to refill, we would just buy new ones. You do have to plan ahead on the long trail days to make sure you have enough water, but you pass through enough villages that it wasn’t a problem. I think we ran out of water one time and then we did pass by a trailside coffee stand so we all got decaf lattes to quench our thirst ;) I will say, the tap water in England wasn’t always great, but we brought a bunch of LMNT electrolite packs that helped with that.
Our Day-by-Day Cotswold Way Itinerary as a family of 5
Here’s the itinerary we kept including mileage, meals, and notes. As mentioned above, this mileage is our actual mileage pulled from Strava, but there are a lot of shortcuts, longcuts, and pit stops available so mileage can vary.
Day 1: Chipping Campden to Broadway
5.9 miles | The Lodge at Broadway
This was such a beautiful start to the trek. Our train and taxi got us to Chipping Campden around lunch and we ate peanut-butter-and-nutella-sandwhiches in the beautiful town center. Then we took photos at the trail marker, shouldered all of our luggage, and headed out. We walked along the trail, which is well-marked with small circular signs on fence posts, and through fields toward Broadway. The Broadway Tower was our first real stop and it sits high above the countryside like a little castle, but it's actually a folly (a decorative building made purely for fun) built in 1798. William Morris later used it as a holiday retreat, and it's said to have helped inspire him to found the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in 1877. It’s a great self-guided tour and you we snagged tickets at the gift shop without a reservation.
From the tower, the trail drops into Broadway, a very fun first taste of a Cotswold village with honey-colored stone, old shopfronts, pubs, and beautiful houses.
We stayed at The Lodge at Broadway, a stone guesthouse tucked just behind the High Street that was renovated in 2017. Our apartment had two bedrooms, a full kitchen and a living/dining space, and laundry - perfect for our family of five. We did laundry (a must for traveling light), grabbed yogurt, fruit and oatmeal for breakfast at the great grocery store in town, and had a beer at the Crown & Trumpet, where we watched people get off work and meet up for pints and enjoyed listening to all the accents. We grabbed a quick bite and then it was early to be.
Day 2: Broadway to Cleeve Hill
17.6 miles | The Rising Sun
This ended up being one of the kids' favorite days of the whole trip, which still surprises me since it was nearly 18 miles! We hit the trail around 8:30 after picking up coffee and pastries (plus a bag of small pastries for snacks) at Broadway Deli, then walked through sheep pastures, farm fields, and some of the cutest villages. It felt SO English.
We stopped in Winchcombe for lunch at the White Hart, where I had a cheddar-and-pickle sandwich and Wilder ordered a meat pie over mashed potatoes and mushy peas (the clear winner at the table!). We popped into a beautiful church while looking for a lunch stop and they kindly showed us around and offered us bathrooms. I don’t think I’ve mentioned it yet, but the people in the Cotswolds were so incredibly friendly, helpful, and kind!
Hot tip: Winchcombe is really quaint and we would have happily stayed there. Bonus there's a public water filler right in the wall along the main street.
Late in the day, after already walking 16+ miles, we climbed up and over Cleeve Hill and somehow stumbled onto an active golf course full of sheep. The views were incredible and the kids were completely delighted with the livestock. Then came a magical long downhill finish to The Rising Sun, perched high on Cleeve Hill. The inn was serving travelers back in the 19th century, and the views make it obvious why. We had two rooms, ate dinner there, and called it an early night. The next morning we walked right back through all those sheep to rejoin the trail.
Day 3: Cleeve Hill to Birdlip
16.2 miles | The Royal George
We all met up for breakfast at The Rising Sun’s dining room (continental with tea and coffee, pancakes, toast and a few English classics) and headed out through more sheep, woods, and farmland.
Lunch came from a roadside food cart that we stumbled upon called Country Grill, where we ate sausage rolls and bacon rolls (a white baguette with egg, bacon, mushrooms and onions). The cook asked if I wanted ‘brain sauce’ and I misunderstood him approximately three times before someone in line finally clarified, "This one's red. This one's brown." Got it ;) Not long after, we found one of the honor-system food stands scattered along the trail, stocked with homemade cakes, blondies, and cake pops (and it has a credit card reader!). We also passed a message written on a fence post that read, "Some people are so poor. All they have is money." The final approach to Birdlip had a construction diversion that was easily the least pretty part of the whole walk, but thankfully it was well marked.
We stayed at The Royal George, a 19th-century inn on substantial grounds. We ate dinner outside on the grass (pot pies), the kids ran around while we had a couple of beers and just really enjoyed being together. Not bad after sixteen miles!
Day 4: Birdlip to Painswick
8 miles | The Falcon Inn
After two long days, eight miles felt wonderfully civilized. We started with breakfast in the hotel dining room (so cozy and very English), and then we walked the easy miles to Painswick. Goodness, if you like old houses, stone streets, and slightly crooked buildings, this village alone is worth the trip. We got in around lunch and stopped at The Oak for sourdough toasties and a pint in the sunshine, complete with a couple of pub dogs wandering around. I honestly couldn't have imagined a more charming or delicious lunch stop.
We stayed at The Falcon Inn, which dates back to 1554 and has served as both an inn and a courthouse. The hotel itself was beautiful, but dinner was a little fancy and foodie for us after several days of walking. If we did it again, I think we'd eat at The Oak and still happily stay at the Falcon.
Day 5: Painswick to Stonehouse
8.6 miles | Stonehouse Court
We started the morning with a stop at a corner shop to stock up on bakery bread (they sell bakery bed in corner stores!), peanut butter, Nutella, crips, cookies, and candy because constant fuel kept those 9-year-old legs moving :) Then we grabbed espresso and one of my favorite almond croissants ever at Juniper and headed toward King's Stanley. This was such a pretty stretch of trail with vistas overlooking impossibly green fields. In the late morning we stopped at a trailside coffee stand where we tried our first flapjack (basically a homemade granola bar with chocolate on top - delicious!). Hiking with a fresh espresso is such a treat and I vowed to hit up every single coffee stand we passed :)
And then we had the scariest parenting moment of my life. In the last couple of miles, the trail meanders through forest and the kids found a rope swing. After a few swings each, the handle broke while Wilder was 10’+ in the air. He fell hard, hit his head, and was knocked unconscious. I’ll spare you all the details but an ambulance was called and Wilder eventually woke up with a severe concussion and a battered body. At the hospital there was triage, a CT scan, and X-rays. Thankfully all came back clear and he was released without expense that evening. The thing that sticks with me is the kindness of everyone around us that day. There was the cyclist who waited to flag down the ambulance at the trailhead/carpark, Peter and Ana the paramedics, Tim the National Trust employee who raced over to unlock the gate for them, and Val, the loveliest woman who waited with me and then drove me and 2 of our kids the 30 minutes to the hospital behind the ambulance. Britain really won our hearts that day.
And thankfully kids heal astonishingly fast. Within a day Wilder was walking again, and by the final day, he finished the 18.9-mile push into Bath with us. I'm so thankful we left the Cotswolds as a family of five healthy people!
Hot tip: Download the what3words app before you walk. It gives you a precise three-word location from your phone's GPS even without mobile data, that you can give the emergency services if you ever have to call them (thankfully I found someone with the app when we had an emergency).
That night we stayed at Stonehouse Court, a Grade II listed manor house (a serious historic designation over here) dating to 1601 and altered in the early 1900s after a fire. Under different circumstances I would have spent hours poking around - this place is stunning! But ended up arriving late from the hospital (in an uber) and basically just collapsed.
Day 6: Stonehouse to Wotton-under-Edge
15.8 miles | The Swan Hotel
We started with a delicious hot breakfast and cappuccinos at Stonehouse Court, and then we split up so Wilder could recover. This was the only day we pulled out our rain jackets, but it was just a gentle rain, and by mid-morning the jackets were back in our packs and the fog had burned off into a gorgeous day. Brooks and I walked from Stonehouse while Garrett took Wilder and Daphne ahead by taxi, and we all met in Dursley for lunch. Daphne rejoined Brooks and me for the rest of the trail.
The stretch toward Wotton-under-Edge was lovely: impossibly green farmland bordered by hedgerows, sheep, and big views, including the Tyndale Monument, a giant tower at the top of the hill. We wandered into Wotton-Under-Edge at about 4pm, stopped by the hotel, and then met Garrett and Wilder at The Royal Oak, where the boys played pool and we discovered a garden out back with picnic tables and a playground. We happened to hit the once-monthly kids' art project, where Maddi from Mad About Art was helping kids make clay pieces, and Daphne made a tiny clay pumpkin pot that she rapped in soft clothes in her carry-on for the trip home (Nana might have to help her remake the lid ;).
We stayed at The Swan Hotel in Wotton-under-Edge, an old inn with floors that slope dramatically and a downstairs pub that's everything you picture when you imagine an English pub. It was a charming hotel and I was really looking forward to seeing it but it ended up being one of our least favorite stays. The Wi-Fi was bad (tough when you’re dealing with rental issues back home), the rooms were fine but nothing special, and the price felt strangely high for what we got (Garrett even spotted much cheaper rates online once we arrived). I'd stay for the atmosphere only if the rate looks right, and I'd watch the price closely and rebook if it drops.
Day 7: Wotton-under-Edge to Tormarton
16.1 miles | The Compass Inn
We started with porridge and toast at The Swan (the porridge was awesome, and honestly the bread here is all good, even the sandwich bread seems to come from a bakery instead of the grocery store loaves we're used to) and another foggy morning that burned off into a beautiful day. Brooks, Daphne and I headed out around 8:30 and met Garrett and Wilder for lunch at The Beaufort Arms in Hawkesbury Upton, where we ordered sandwiches, eggs, ham and chips. The place was full of reserved signs and I asked what the occasion was and the barkeeper told me it was just the usual Sunday roast. We were the only travelers in the place but they made room for us, and we were charmed by the two men sitting next to us who had accents so strong that, even though we were all technically speaking English, we understood virtually nothing. It was a very English lunch and we won’t forget it anytime soon.
Wilder walked with us for around nine miles before grabbing an uber to our hotel with Garrett, and the rest of us kept going. The three of us stopped at St John the Baptist Church for a restroom pitstop and again for ice cream at The Dog Inn in Old Sodbury before rolling into The Compass Inn at Tormarton around 4:00. While we missed Garrett and Wilder on the trail, it was really empowering to walk as a single woman with two young kids on the trail and feel so safe and capable. I wouldn’t hesitate to walk the Cotswold Way as a solo traveler.
The Compass Inn is an 18th-century coaching inn (and, funny enough, a Best Western) and after meeting us with Garrett and Wilder, we grabbed a beer, played pool, and waited over an hour for a proper Sunday roast, which was worth it: pork, chicken and beef with potatoes, roasted carrots, turnips and Yorkshire pudding.
Day 8: Tormarton to Bath
18.9 miles | Bath Airbnb
Our longest day and my favorite! We skipped the hotel breakfast and walked about three miles to The Fine Cheese Company, arriving a little before they opened at 9 and watching them set up. It was cold and damp (but not technically raining ;) so we were excited to warm up over espresso, pastries, quiche and the best scone with clotted cream and jam. Before leaving we bought focaccia, cheese and meat, which we stashed in our packs for lunch. Getting back to the trail meant crossing a very busy double highway, which Daphne has officially ranked as her third least favorite moment of the trek.
From there we wandered into Dyrham Park, a late-17th-century manor house that looked like it had fallen straight out of a Jane Austen novel. Obviously we stopped. We toured the gardens, waited for the house to open at 11:30, and walked through it, which put us a little behind for an 18.9-mile day, but efficiency was NOT the point of this trip. This home was SO stunning and I have to share a few photos here…
We stopped in Cold Ashton for our picnic lunch, which we ate on the steps of a stunning manor house. The foccia sandwiches and beautiful location made for the perfect trail lunch! Then began the very long descent toward Bath.
You start seeing houses and think, surely we're almost there. You are NOT almost there. It's a long, glorious stretch of rolling hills and old neighborhoods on the outskirts of Bath, and it just keeps going until you reach the old center. In the last couple of miles Daphne finally hit her limit (18.9 miles is serious effort for a nine-year-old!), and with about a mile to go, we stopped for hot chocolate to get her across the finish line (it worked!). We rounded the final stretch and there was Bath Abbey. And I swear the clouds parted, musicians were playing nearby, and hot-air balloons were floating in the distance. It felt like we were being welcomed in. It felt a little magical :)
After a few photos, Garrett grabbed our bags from the drop and we met at our Airbnb, which is incredibly old and charming and I will have to share a separate tour because we loved it so much. We ate takeaway Thai, watched Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, and were all very much exhausted and fulfilled :)
The Kids Were the Best Part
I don't know that I can put this into words, but I'm going to try: the kids were a DELIGHT. This was the best trip any of us has ever taken, and getting to spend so much undirected, undistracted time with them was a gift. No schedules, no screens, nothing to do but walk to the next town. I felt like I got to know my kids better, which I didn't even think was possible since we already spend so much time together.
They had the best attitude 99% of the time. They walked with awe and wonder and excitement, and they were constantly running ahead, playing along the trail and adding extra miles just because. They made me "jog it out" to catch up more than once.
Honestly, I expected more complaining. Before we left I even researched taxi exits for the longer days, because I figured there was a good chance Daphne would decide 15+ miles was too far. She didn’t complain once except for those last couple of miles on day eight. And I really couldn’t blame her - 18.9 miles is long for anyone, but especially someone that young. Another group we met on the trail told us they'd talked about our kids during their own hard stretches (if those little legs could walk 18 miles, goodness, they could finish ten!). I love that!
For the record, our kids are not long-distance walkers at home. Sure we do an occasional family hike but for the most part they’re just active: swimming, dance, soccer, basketball, etc. And I’m so pleased that was enough.
What helped: good footwear (waterproof shoes for everyone, and not a single blister), and our extremely sophisticated primary strategy - feed them constantly. Pastries, candy, peanut-butter-and-nutellas (we hiked with all the fixings!), and then we hit up lots of trailside stands/stops for treats, ice cream, pies, ginger beer, coffee, chocolate, whatever sounded good. A long hike is no time to be hungry.
In between, they hunted for walking sticks, snails, slugs and elaborate spiderwebs, pet goats, spotted funny cows (the panda cows were a hit) and tiny horses, made up choose-your-own-adventure stories, and practiced saying "morning!" in the cheerful sing-song way the English do when greeting you on the trail. The walk became the adventure instead of something to endure to get somewhere else.
You Basically Don't Need Cash
We arrived without a single pound and almost never needed one. Every pub, café, and shop accepted tap-to-pay, and amazingly, even the little honor-system food stands along the trail. The only cash emergency of the trip was when Wilder wanted to play pool, and the bartender charged our card for a little extra and handed us a few pound coins. I'd bring a handful of coins next time, but that's about it.
The People on the Trail
This was one of the parts I didn't anticipate. When you walk the same route for eight days, you keep seeing the same people. There were three sisters from Utah and Portland, two women who started separately and ended up walking much of the trail together, Germans involved in tracking down somebody's missing retainer, a California couple, and a larger group from LA. We'd pass each other, eat at neighboring tables, stay at the same inns, and check in with each other the next morning. After Wilder's accident, news somehow traveled up and down the trail and people kept stopping to ask how he was doing.
By the time we reached Bath, it felt like we were all members of some secret club. We kept running into everyone in Bath, too: one of the women who'd paired up took our photo at the Abbey, we saw the German women at tea at Sally Lunn's, and the LA group turned up on our free walking tour of Bath the next day. I didn't expect the community to be one of my favorite parts of the walk, but it definitely was.
And Yes, Old-House People Will Love This
Obviously I'm looking at England through a very particular lens. For eight days we walked past honey-colored stone villages, old wood doors, wavy windows, ancient stone walls, churches, manor houses, and pubs that have been welcoming travelers for hundreds of years. I was in heaven! The fact that these buildings are still in use - people live in them, drink beer in them, raise kids in them, run restaurants in them, hang laundry in them, and complain about the Wi-Fi in them (hi, Swan) - was just so amazing.
So often that places we stayed were small and usually had an awkward bit or two, but that just added to the charm. At most of our hotels we were handed an actual key (a KEY!) not a key card. Fans instead of AC. Bathrooms that were small and made from whatever space was available, with small sinks instead of vanities. Real vintage art instead of Target prints. Solid wood doors with handles that had so much presence, whether or not they stuck or squeaked when you turned them. Wooden garage doors (we saw exactly one vinyl garage door on the whole trip) and not a single plastic fence.
We Americans tend to optimize everything, and I get it, but it comes with a cost too. England reminded me that there's romance in the natural, art in the craft, peace in the making do. Over and over again, England showed us that things don't have to be pristine, or enormous, or brand new, to be really, really good. Slow down. Enjoy it. Indulge a little.
Quick Answers
Is the Cotswold Way doable with kids? Ours were 13, 11 and 9, and we walked between 8 and 19 miles a day and they loved it (and we loved having them along)! Good footwear, snacks and, a positive attitude go a long way.
How long does it take? Most people take seven to ten days. We took eight, plus three nights in Bath to recover. Our sweet spot was about 15 miles a day.
Do you need to book hotels in advance? We booked a few months ahead, and rooms for five were the hardest part, so I'd book early.
Do you need a luggage transfer? We highly recommend it! It was £6.60 per bag per transfer.
What was the weather like? We walked from September 28 to October 5 and had mostly dry days, foggy mornings that burned off, one gentle rain, and one very damp (but not technically rainy) final morning.
Would We Do the Cotswold Way Again?
Absolutely. It was hard. One day was genuinely frightening. We were tired every night. But goodness, it was wonderful. For eight days, our family woke up with one job: walk to the next town. We crossed green fields, climbed hills, walked through sheep pastures and villages older than our country, ate pies in pubs, bought homemade cake from roadside stands, talked to strangers, and fell asleep every night completely fulfilled.
There's something incredibly satisfying about standing in Bath and realizing you got there on your own two feet, and doing it with my favorite people is something I’ll be talking about for a very long time. We did so much, learned so much, saw so much, and got closer in the meantime. Trip of a lifetime!
Would love to hear if you’ve ever done an inn-to-inn walking trip or if take on the Cotswold Way! Please share in the comments :)
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where we stayed, what we ate, how the kids did, and all the pretty houses along the way