First Steps on the Cotswold Way: Rain, Hills, and Wild Camping | 1/7

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Day 1/7 🥾Cotswold Way, UK National Trail 🇬🇧 Walking with Gemma @gemlaurensmith 🙌

ℹ️Stats: Tuesday 28th May
Weather: rain 🌧️ 15 degrees
From: Shaldon, Devon ➡️ Bath Spa.
Start time: 8.20am / 1pm Bath Cathedral
To: before Dyrham
End time: 7.40pm
Accommodation: tent ⛺️ wild camped
Terrain: hills, farm land, cow fields, long wet grass

🥾Km: 28
🥾Miles: 17.5
🦶Steps: 36,233

This was not all walked on the Cotswold Way. This includes travel to Bath - walking 30 mins to the train station. Shopping and getting food supply and walking to the start at the Cathedral

💰Costs: £42.90 train 🚂 one way Teignmouth to Bath Spa
£33 supermarkets food shop
£1.85 1L water 💧

Subjective feeling out of 10 on:

Enjoyment: 8/10
Fatigue: 4/10 - I know I’m tired before I even start walking!!
Ease of terrain: 4/10 surprisingly found some of the uphill sections tough going.

⭐️Highlights: new walk. New challenge. No pressure re distances and time. Walking with Gemma again (make sure to check out the vlogs from the coast to coast). Setting up the tents when it was dry before it started raining again.

🏔️Challenges: the weather 🌧️. Stomach issues (had some gluten/wheat food over the weekend. Stomach is still not happy), super tired 🥱 (I think I’m anaemia- I’ve got a blood test next week to check). Period 🩸 it’s all going on! Ahhhhh 😫😩 plus add in the hills…

💭Thoughts: although it rained on and off all day. It’s been fun! Plus I took an umbrella ☂️ which has been a game changer. I love it!! Big fan!! Do you hike with an umbrella?!

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