Cotswold Day Trip

Sun (14 Oct 07) - We visited three towns in Cotswold - Burford, Stow-on-the-Wold and Bourton-on-the-Water. Cotswolds refers to a region of gentle hill country in south central England where you can see the typical English countryside - stone-built houses and lush greens.

High Street in Burford - a quaint small village town.

Church in Burford

Quaint shops on the High Street

Huffins - famous bakery in Burford, established in 1890

We tried their raspberry & white choc muffins and almond macaroons. The almond macaroons were fantastic.

Jars of traditional English lollies

Cotswold Arms - a famous pub in Burford


Stow-on-the-Wold - the highest point in the Cotswold region

Stow-on-the-Wold town centre

Town hall in Stow-on-the-Wold

The Royalist Hotel - the oldest inn in England, built in 947AD

A pretty guesthouse in Stow

This was how the town used to punish naughty little kids by locking them up to this wooden mechanism.

Stow Lodge and its funny looking tree.

Bourton-on-the-Water - the water level in the canal was pretty shallow, even the duckies could stand in the water.

This town has been referred to as the Venice of the North because of the numerous stone-built bridges and canal.

Green green grass

Every English town seems to have its own Christmas shop which operates all year round like this one here in Bourton. I like the one in Bath called "25th of December".

We ended our trip with cream tea at a small tearoom which makes fantastic clotted cream.