Painswick feels like a second home to me although I never lived there. Thanks to a pair of Californian disapora brothers that had settled there and who I went to school for much of a misspent youth it was the centre of my social life, it and The Pelican in the nearby Stroud. An historic wool town it is known as the ‘Queen of the Cotswolds’ due to its charming streets and beautiful architecture (although far from unique in this part of the world) and lovely views across one of the ‘Five Valleys’ that converge on Stroud, including the neighbouring Slad Valley the setting for Laurie Lee’s famous memoir ‘Cider With Rosie’.