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Cotswolder Blog

Goodbye Cotswolder blog, hello to the Views from the Slow Lane blog!

I have merged my Cotswolder blog  with my main blog, Views from the Slow Lane on Slow Europe (www.sloweurope.com). Now that Slow Europe has launched (March 2009) I am blogging more there and I realized that my England and Cotswolds posts will work well in that blog. Plus it is much less work to run one WordPress blog than two - since I seem to endlessly fiddle with plugins, template changes and formatting.

Views from the Slow Lane started in August 2003. Here is my first post the day we arrived in Zurich for a fall trip to Switzerland and Italy. We have arrived - Zurich day 1. I started out blogging with Blogger, then moved to Movable Type and am now on WordPress. The blog was on SlowTrav.com until 2008 when I moved it to SlowEurope.com (the old blog is still on SlowTrav, up until early 2008).

In the early years I would blog during a trip, then turn the information into a trip report and delete the blog entries. You can see some of our old trip reports on SlowTrav - Pauline’s Pages.

My blog is still what it always was - a way of communicating with my online friends when traveling, some vacation rentals and travel info, some idle chit-chat and way too many photos of my cat.

So, come on over to Views from the Slow Lane and lets continue our conversation about England and the Cotswolds there. We will be in England for at least 5 weeks this summer (a few nights in Windsor, 4 1/2 weeks in the Cotswolds), so we will be blogging about the Cotswolds and updating the Cotswolder website.