October 21-24
Rick and I spent three lovely days in an area of England know as the Cotswolds. This is a range of limestone hills covering an area of over 700 square miles and encompassing hundreds of ancient villages each with an individual character. The typical features are:
· Buildings made of Cotswold stone: yellow/gold toned limestone that is soft and easily carved when first quarried but grows harder with age as it turns darker and sometimes grey
· The typical Cotswold cottage has split stone tiles covering the steeply pitched roof and a timber door
· Drystone walls crisscross the fields of grazing sheep
· Sheep dominate the landscape as the economy of the area was originally based on the medieval wool trade and this wealth was responsible for the building of the many churches known as “wool churches”
It is impossible to describe the beauty of this area so the pictures will tell the story….
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/alysehirsekorn/TheCotswolds?authkey=Gv1sRgCJzV4e_N6ZHkRw&feat=directlink
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