Cirencester to Tetbury to Castle Combe

Cirencester to Tetbury - 13 3/4 miles
Tetbury to Castle Combe - 15 miles

After a pissed off Janet left Cirencester without her scrambled eggs, they made their way to Tetbury.  As they wanted to see Prince Charles' garden Highgrove and go to Chavenage, they took a one day break from walking.

This is the kind of traffic one encounters on a walking holiday:

Enroute to Tetbury, they walked alongside a canal that has not been reclaimed.  At the point where they were to turn away from the canal, there was a fabulous canal bridge that has been refurbished.  As horses could not access the canal on a towpath,  men were paid to lie on their backs on top of the canal boats and use their feet on the underside of the bridge for the boat to move forward.

Enroute was Rodmarton House, a great Arts & Crafts House with everything hand made from local materials.

The hotel in Tetbury was super!

This foyer is leading to their room.  You can see Janet's yucky hiking boots.

Garden courtyard of hotel.

For Janet, Chavenage was the highlight of Tetbury.  It is used as the ancestral family home in the TV series "Poldark" and also in the recent mini-series "White Hall".

The house tour was given by the daughter of the ancestral owner and she was beyond hilarious in the honesty about how their home was opened to paying visitors.  At the end of the tour, she had remembered that Janet had sent an email about visiting.  It was Janet and Phil's plan to walk back to the hotel, but Host Caroline's nephew (new to having a driver's license) insisted on driving them.

Can't you see Ross Poldark racing up the driveway on his horse?  One of the reasons this house is used for filming as that there are not any telephone poles or other wires in the immediate surroundings.