Daniel Pietzsch

A trip to the Cotswolds

Mid-March, it was time for yet another trip: my brother, my father, and I met for our annual “men’s weekend”. We started this tradition 2 years ago. This was our 3rd meeting, and it was my brother’s job to organise the event this year. And since he’s in London, my dad and I flew over to Heathrow, where Alex picked us up with a rental car. And off we went to the Cotswolds in western England.

Arriving in Heathrow.

Alex preparing prawns for our first dinner at the cottage.

Good morning!

The main event was a hike from our little AirBnB cottage to the Broadway tower. Altogether, it was a 23 km round trip, with a afternoon tea stop in the neat and beautiful (and a little creepy, to be honest) little Chipping Campden.

Ah, forgot to advance the frame. Let’s redo this…

Lots of sheep along the way. I really like the look of this photo.

Towards Chipping Campden.

The bro during afternoon tea.

After dinner at a local pub. It wasn’t so easy to find a spot at any restaurant that week. It was “racing week”, the biggest event of the year in the area. (In this case “racing” means “horse races”.) 

Cottage romantic.

Morning coffee.

Rental car.

Since we only spent two nights, it was already time to drive back towards London the next day. On the way, we decided to stop by at Blenheim Palace. But we ended up not visiting it, since the £25 entry fee each seemed a little steep to us, given we only had 2 hours or so.
Instead, we decided to visit the adjacent gardens which had an interesting (and warm!) butterfly house and a pretty good maze. We definitely enjoyed it!

Labyrinth fun:

Richard of http://lovewine.me. We had a good chat with him about wine, local spirits and old film cameras.

Random dog.

As Alex put it: Airplanes sucked into arms.

Time to fly back to D again.