#CotswoldWay #toughgirlchallenges
Day 2/7 🥾Cotswold Way, UK National Trail 🇬🇧 Walking with Gemma @gemlaurensmith 🙌
ℹ️Stats: Wednesday 29th May
Weather: Sunny ☀️ (thank goodness)
From: before Dryton
Start time: 7.25am
To: Wotton-under-Edge
End time: 8.20pm
Accommodation: The Swan Hotel - bed 🛌
Terrain: farmland, country roads, lanes, rocky paths, gravel tracks
🥾Km: 38
🥾Miles: 23
🦶Steps: 49,097
💰Costs: £3.10 - crisps, 2x blackcurrant juice
Subjective feeling out of 10 on:
Enjoyment: 8/10
Fatigue: 5/10
Ease of terrain: 5/10
⭐️Highlights: staying in a bed 🙏 being able to charge electronics. It was a nice day. So lucky with the weather.
🏔️Challenges: slugs 🐌 all over the inner and outer inner of the tent ⛺️. Trying to find an area to wild camp was so difficult. There were really no options. So we carried on walking into the closest town and Gemma booked & paid for a hotel. 🙏
💭Thoughts: we took a few nice rest breaks along the way. But it was a long day. It felt long.
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