Saturday 1 Sept 2018 Broadway to Chipping Campden

Today’s walk was short, but steep at first – a climb similar to Tumamoc Hill in Tucson. The total for the day was 5.5-miles. The feature was Broadway Tower perched at the high point 700 feet above Broadway. Built in 1800 by nobleman from the area. There are several theories about why, but the most likely is that it was a time of architectural extravagance, so he built it because he could, and it made a statement.

View back to Broadway from the Tower

Linda on top of the Tower

Chipping (chipping means market) Campden feels more Cotswold than Broadway. The High Street has classy art and antique stores and fewer ice cream and souvenir shops. This is one of our favorites. Our hotel was the Noel Arms.

One of the many varieties

Some observations as we near the end of our Cotswold experience:

One stand-out feature has been the local people. To a person, they have been welcoming, courteous and genuine. It adds to the unspoiled reputation of the region. London hospitality was much more typical of international big cities.

All draft beer is served in glasses with the maker’s name – Beck’s beer is served in a glass with Beck’s written on it, etc. May be that the brewers supply the glassware for the pub as long as they serve in their glasses.

We are staying in mostly four start hotels and only one hotel room had a phone in the room. 

In the iconic red English phone booths, the phones have been replaced by AED’s – defibrillators.

European credit cards are all contactless (you just pass the card over the machine) and require a pin giving way more security than ours. On the other hand, the restaurant computers cannot issue separate checks for different parties at the same table. The server must stand with the table bill and divide all the items between each party. The surprising thing is that they are polite when asked to do it.