Painswick to Birdlip and return: 11km 4hr. Today after breakfast at St Anne's B&B in Painswick, Iris organised Greg to run us into Birdlip so we could walk back south to Painswick where we're staying another night. After a slightly hair raising ride, with three of us riding without seat belts in the back of a Land Rover we arrived outside the Royal George Hotel in Birdlip. We needed to do a bit of map reading to figure in which direction we could pick up ...

Cotswold Way Day 5: Middleyard to Painswick. 14km 5hr. The weather has become wetter. This morning we left Valley View and our hostess Pam about 9.15am. There was intermittent rain and a fairly constant grey-black sky. I was foolish enough to start in shorts and tee shirt and was attacked by nettles after the first stile. I found that if I watched my feet in the slippery mud, the nettles leapt out and attacked. If I watched the nettles, I tended to do half Ch...