Cotswolds day out of London on the 6th, planned entirely around where lunch was going to happen, which is how I plan everything. Oxford first is the right order. In by half nine and the Covered Market was still quiet at that hour. The pie counter does a proper raised pork pie with jelly under the lid, about four pounds. That was breakfast number two. Burford for lunch. Ploughman's with a hard sheep's cheese and pickled walnuts, twelve pounds, and a pint of something cloudy alongside it. After that the villages do start to blur into one another, which I suspect is rather the point of them. One change for next time. Bibury at four in the afternoon still had two coaches parked in it. Ask your driver to run there first thing and work back east through the day. Having a car to yourselves is the only reason you get any say over the order at all. Ten hours in total from a pickup at eight.
