Freedom Tour Day 4

Once we'd all had our fill of laughing at Pauls story we set off.... 

Will peeled off towards home and the rest of us headed back to the Cotswolds.  In avoiding all main roads, even through heavily populated England, you feel that that country is mostly empty.  At the risk of boring you, dear reader, two wheels in B-Road Britain is the only way to travel.

After endless miles of green pastures, rolling hills and sleepy villages we settled in Burford for the evening.

 On this evening we didn't play the hunting horns or make the bar sing,  but we did appreciate Burford, another postcard setting in middle England. 

Fosse Way
The Fosse Way runs the whole length of the Cotswolds in an amazingly straight line and is a fine example of Roman engineering.  It continues north from the Cotswolds on an unerring path, like an arrow path through the country, all the way to Leicester. I understand that in its heyday it connected Lincoln to Exeter. 

Why am i bothering to note that down?   Well, if you are biker, you'll appreciate a direct, picturesque route through the country that avoids all motorways.  Satnavs don't initially direct you to it, so its quite too!  This was my chosen route the following day to head home.  I loved it.    

Back at home now and it's time to say goodbye to my old CB1300 road bike.  8 years of faultless, thrilling muscle bike ownership draw to an end.... what next?