Wild Talk

Yesterday I visited the Cotswolds with my father and my sister Rebecca to go and look out a walk that I am going to be leading in September. The walk in question was from Broadway to Chipping Campden which is a lovely walk alongs the Oolitic Limestone escarpment running from Fish Hill which Broadway Tower sits atop of and Dovers Hill above Chipping Campden. Oolitic Limestone is the main stone in the Cotswolds and is the famous Cotswold Stone which lends it colour to towns such as Boradway, Chipping Campden and the world heritage city of Bath, Oolitic is derived from Greek and means 'egg stone' which can be clearly seen under a microscope lense where it looks like compacted fish eggs.  Broadway which is where the walk starts (although we walked from Chopping Campden and then back) is often called 'the jewel of the Cotswolds' and the 'Northern Gateway to the Cotswolds'. Henry James once said this of the town: "Broadway and much of the land about it are i

The job hunt it still ongoing, I am not as bothered as I could be as it is giving me the opportunity to have more of a role in the family walking holiday business. Yes it means plenty of office work but the field trips make it all worth it! Some of these include looking out walks along the Kennet and Avon Canal, the Cotswolds, and soon I will be heading further afield to Snowdonia and the Highlands of Scotland! The Kennet and Avon walk that we looked out was a walk across to the lovely village of Hampstead Marshall where there is a beautifully preserved and maintained Saxon church, which really makes a fantastic final mile stone before reaching the pub! The estate at Hampstead Marshall is surrounded by lovely wild flower meadows and fantastic trees and avenues as well as some rather large, albeit slightly out of place, architecture in the form of ornamental pillars. These pillars come out in rows from the front of the house like the spokes of a wheel; this was where there were onc