Travel Blogs from Chipping Campden, United Kingdom
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Stratford Upon Avon, England
History: Stratford owes its existence as a thriving market town to an early bridge which provided an excellent crossing point of the River Avon, thus enabling trade to flourish from Roman times. The town grew greatest in prosperity, however, during the ...
Chipping Campden
... some very funny British TV - The Big Fat Quiz Of The Year, with Jimmy Carr. Pretty good TV actually! Tomorrow, we leave Chipping Campden, and I'll be a little sad. This place has been gorgeous, and I'd really love to stay here longer and spend more ...
Day 10 - Chipping Campden
... fill, we paid quick visits to the castle play area, which had a cool zip-line, and gift shop. On our way back to Chipping Campden, we made a “slight” detour (while Ian wasn’t looking) back into Wales to see the ruins of Tintern Abbey ...
UK - Cotswold Way.
Just finished a week of trekking along the UK's Cotswold Way. 12 hour walking days and comping in the "woods". And the weather held up - that was the most important part!You would only attempt this in the "summer" months, otherwise the days are too short ...
Day 9 - Dunster to Chipping Campden
... and on to the Cotswold hills, a favorite of Rick Steves. We found our accommodation for the night, the Noel Arms, in Chipping Campden. The stone building was quite old, as were all of the buildings in town, with sloping, creaky hallways, and ...
Chipping Campden
Chipping Campden is impossibly quaint, when we were wandering the streets, we felt like we weren't in a real place, because it was more like a fairy tale. We stayed in a 400-year old stone inn, in a really comfortable room ... and if you look ...
Day 60 - You Are Not Alone
... of Chipping Campden at Mickleton. Here there are people: dogwalkers, hikers and tourists all enjoying the late afternoon sun. Chipping Campden seems positively buzzing as there is a music festival, lots of tourists and the cricket is on. ...
Cotwolds Cruising
... Some of our favorites were Arlington Row and Bibury where we had a lovely picnic by the stream, Lower Slaughter, Snowshill, and lastly Chipping Campden where we stayed the night. By the time we settled into our old inn and walked around the town to find a ...
Humans replace trees.
Well there you go! Just when I was starting to heap praise on the place it all starts to go to the toilet. Our southward progress has been hampered by an explosion in the population. After crossing that invisible line that separates Scotland from ...
Being an account of human folly, changing plans,
... The end result of our various adventures has this time led us to the hospitality of Sonia's second cousin Michael Haines in Chipping Camden. (There's another town nearby named Chipping Sodbury, which is really an amazing name because in the right tone it ...
Headed to the Cotswolds
... , will finish in the morning! Still playing catch-up! From Lacock I headed to the Cotswolds and the wool market town of Chipping Campden. Along the way I stopped at Avebury. Avebury is my choice, instead of Stonehenge. It isn't as commercial, nor as ...
The beauty of the Cotswolds
... of buildings build in the 15th and 18th centuries. It was named when Princess Mary visited in 1891. From there, we went onto Chipping Camden. Now, I have seen small roads. But, never like this. We went up over these hills where the ...
Cotswolds
We went to the Cotswolds for the day, starting with Chipping Camden, which is a beautiful town. Thankfully it had warmed up following our day in Birmingham and was a slightly warmer 2 degrees! We mooched about the main street, looking in as many shops ...
The Cotswolds - Chipping Campden
The Cotswolds Charming area known for it's honey-colored limestone buildings. For more info: ...
Arrived in the UK
... it to London. We were met at the airport by Danny and Julie and shortly after were on our way to Chipping Campden in the Cotswold. Danny, bless him, bought us a few travellers for the way - Diamond White cidars just for ...
Weekend at the Cotswolds
... countryside weather. Tim gave us some great recommendations on where to go throughout the Coltswolds. We went from Chipping Campden to Broadway, Snowshill, Lower and Upper Slaughters and many more. They were just beautiful. We ...
The Cotswolds II: Stroud to Chipping Campden
... ". Our friend S and T met us in the parking lot - the first Brits to join us! - and gave us a lift down to Chipping Campden, the lovely market town where the Cotswold Way terminates. There we had a very nice dinner, were stunned to discover that the chef ...
"To be or not to be..."
... place even for the non theatre initiated. It was now time to get back on the road for the 30 minute drive to Chipping Campden. A very mideival town with unique architecture but very little hustle bustle of tourist haunts. It is quiet here, not cheap, but ...
Tea and Thatched Roof Houses
Julianne says she wants to go to the Cotswolds. After looking at the map, she says she wants to go to Chipping Campden, so off we go. We find a parking place on the street, and walk up and down the main street. Cute, cute cute. We took ...
A Nice Day to Sit by the Fire
....... And I did a lot of that! It is sort of sad not to be driving around the Cotswolds, but today is very cold and it is still raining on and off. I have walked around this lovely little town, visited a museum, and roamed around a 15th century ...
In love with The Cotswolds
... cute escape to to the country features like beams, original hugely uneven floor and leaded windows. We are just near the village of Chipping Camden and it is one of the most beautiful places we have ever seen and one of the oldest places in England. ...
Off to Allyson's
... ) with French and Australian wines. Andy came home for lunch, and late this afternoon we all went for a walk around Chipping Campden. The villages in the Cotswolds are lovely - very picturesque. It was a lovely, relaxing day. Then we ...
thatched roofs, lavender, manors and quaint stops
The Cotswolds are without a doubt the quintessential English villages. They all are place with only a couple thousand people, but the rolling hills, quaint villages and thatched roofs make this a place one could linger for days. None ot the places ...
Let's get it started!
... bus snafu that created a small amount of stress was soon forgotten as we realized it worked out in the end....brought us to Chipping Campden. (with an English accent) "a lovely little town set in the middle of rolling hills full of sheep where all the ...
Ebrington to Oakham transition
On the move again today, from Ebrington in the Cotswolds to Oakham in Rutland, about 2 hours north of London. This was my day, a visit to Bletchley Park - Computer Country. A chance to visit 'old friends' - I worked on many of the computers here early in ...
Into London
... ; We then had to say goodbye to our little haven and think about heading into London. We had a better look around Chipping Campden and the headed for some time in Stratford-Upon-Avon which has certainly changed from what I remember nearly 25 years ...
Stressing about relaxing in the Cotswolds
... by Cheltenham for a homemade lunch of sandwiches and tea, popping into Broadway for scones and tea and expoloring the streets of Chipping Campden before having yet another cup of tea we promptly declared ourselves 'tea-d out'. Time for a beer. We spent ...
Who Moved My Universe?
... apart and as the ride gets closer to Chipping Camden the houses become more quaint and clearly more expensive. In Chipping Camden the main roads intersect with the village roads to produce a tourist attraction of opulent homes and antique shops. I ...
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