Day-long trek to Slad and Painswick

We set off on our free day after I fed the skinny lambs and Paul counted the cows. He got 34, the magic number. (Turns out there's a break in a fence in another field, so the counting on those cows was up and down all day. I think we might help repair that fence tomorrow.)

We first went to Slad, the town that is celebrating author Laurie Lee's 100th birthday, and had lunch at the Woolpack Pub just as an official looking group was gathering to celebrate the unveiling of the Laurie Lee nature trail (that has signposts every so often with poems by LL featured on them). After lunch we found the multiple footpaths to Painswick. It was already after 3 when we found Olivas, a Spanish cafe that had been recommended to us, and it looked like it might start raining, and I was feeling cheap, so we didn't pay to see the Rococco Gardens and instead started looking for a different path home. Up and down, up and down, Wilson found our trail and we made it back by 6 p.m., just as the rain started in earnest.