THE COTSWOLDS
Right in the very heart of merry England lies a picture-perfect vista of undulating hills and expansive plains, outspread valleys and open spaces, often punctuated by productive groves, orchards, and farms, with rolling fields of flowers, at times peppered by a single tree every so often.
Spilling over 770 square miles, the Cotswolds, loosely translated from the phrase, sheep enclosure in rolling hillsides, is an unharmed raw beauty which absolutely beguiles and charms visitors, tourists, and guests. Several counties, all strongholds of rural traditional culture, such as Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, and certain parts of Wiltshire, Somerset, Worcestershire and Warwickshire, border one of the largest protected landscapes in England, proclaimed by well-respected associations as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
As my traveling buddies and I carefully drove through winding country roads and cobblestone alleys, we soon passed by pastoral hamlets of half-timbered, brick-and-stone houses, with a
