There’s a simple way to avoid the hordes that descend on the Cotswolds during summer, requiring little more than your legs, an old-school map, and some gusto, writes Pauline Ray. I see you are using Flat Nav, said the fellow walker, a complete stranger, as we pored over maps on the corner of a barley field. Even before we left New Zealand I’d been in a complete tizz after the organisers, Walkers Britain, recommended that we should be capable of using GPX raw data files and understanding the grid references of ordnance maps.
Crikey! Then I had another panic attack when the organisers emailed instructions, for our forthcoming self-guided walk, Exploring the Cotswolds, and we couldn’t even download them on iPads or mobile phones. As we had already been travelling for a few weeks I asked a poor male receptionist at a hotel in Crete if he would kindly download and print the instructions. I was mortified when the instructions turned out to be 68 pages.
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