After we left Bibury, we drove to the small villages of Lower Slaughter and Upper Slaughter. The road between them was very narrow, causing me to hope with all I had that no oncoming cars would appear unless it was near one of the wide spots in the road. Fortune smiled upon us. The two villages are just a mile or two apart and they have a public hiking path between them. There are actually a lot of public footpaths all over Britain and it seems that hiking is a popular hobby. The footpaths are public, but they go over private land. So that's why the sheep appear next to the big stones a couple pages ago and along our walk between the Slaughters. There are neat gates set up to keep the sheep from leaving. We walked from Upper Slaughter down to Lower Slaughter and then to the edge of Bourton-on-the-Water before turning back. We were sprinkled on for a short time but fortunately we brought along our raincoats (ominous foreshadowing here, pay attention when I get to the London part of our travelogue) and, in fact, we were dry by the time we returned to our car. It was a great walk.

Ronda and some natives somewhere between Upper Slaughter and Lower Slaughter in the Cotswolds. This is part of the Warden's Way footpath.
This is one of the gates. The part on the right side swivels back and forth but remains within the triangular portion on the left. So you push the gate forward, walk in, and pull the gate backwards to get through. It's quite complicated if you are sheep, I suppose.
A view of Lower Slaughter.
Another view of Lower Slaughter.

After our walk we decided to head back to Broadway so that we could eat and relax a bit. I think we totally missed lunch on this day, possibly just subsisting off of Skittles and fresh air. High above Broadway on a tall hill is the Broadway Tower (two pages on this link) and we stopped and climbed up it and got some terrific views from the hill and tower.
Broadway, Worcestershire from the Broadway Tower. What a view!
This is what the Broadway Tower actually looks like. There is also a nearby building where you pay the nominal fee to climb the tower. Inside this building is a small food area and, as I mentioned, we hadn't had lunch. So we bought some chips and a Coke (but no Diet Mountain Dew, sigh). I gambled and bought beef flavored chips or more accurately I bought beef flavoured crisps. The first one made you wonder if you should spit it out, the second one made you wonder if you should just go up and buy another bag...or do I like these? Maybe another one. Hmm. It's not awful. I'll have one more. By the end of the bag you like them, but not that much. A small bag is as far as I'd go with them.

After visiting the Broadway Tower we drove back to our B&B to relax before going out for dinner. I took a lot of pictures of the town which will be on the next page.

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