DAY 5
Our friends from last night were walking the trail by walking half a day, booking into a B&B then walking on without their packs and bussing back to the B&B. In the morning they would bus back and continue on …. Since we’d walked extra miles yesterday we decided that adding a bus (sounds like couscous) was a great plan.
This gave us time to explore Wotton-under-Edge and have a cream tea – bad coffee plus scone with jam and clotted highland cream.

Chipping Sodbury was next where an Italian lady about to visit her daughter in Melbourne filled us in with all the local knowledge.
The path to Old Sodbury took us past St John the Baptist Church with ancient effigies of a bishop and his son,

then through a now grassy Iron Age fort with moat.