NEW! 2018 Foot Trails brochure is launched

August 18, 2017Adventure of life On the trail Press news No Comments

The new Foot Trails brochure for 2018 is now live and available for you to read and view. We’re delighted to share it with you. You can read it right here 2018 brochure English meadows, front cover of Foot Trails 2018 brochure If we may be so bold, we… Read more

The Navigation – A new walking trail for the Cotswolds

July 29, 2017On the trail No Comments

The Navigation – A new walking trail for The Cotswolds Mill and reflections on the River Thames We arrived in the southern Cotswolds with a 60% chance of lunchtime rain, but we were excited, undeterred and prepared. Two sturdy storm proof umbrellas (do give them a try) were strapped firmly… Read more

Small, spiny visitors at our Wiltshire base

July 20, 2017Adventure of life On the trail No Comments

We have enjoyed spotting this visitor at our Wiltshire base during the last few weeks! Hedgehogs are tiny spiny animals who are one of the most familiar of Britain’s wild animals. We have a whole family living below the wooden decking and everyone from baby to mum and dad… Read more

June – summer wild flower meadows, grasses & green-ness

June 10, 2017Adventure of life On the trail No Comments

Vivid pink orchid The vivid pink colour of this beautiful orchid first caught my eye. It was Saturday. In truth it had been quite a week and mid morning I was out on the downs, ankle deep walking in a beautiful wild flower meadow. All around tall, tubular grasses swayed,… Read more

New – Kings of Wessex – Making a trail

February 5, 2017Adventure of life Behind the scenes as a new Foot Trail is created On the trail No Comments

New – Kings of Wessex – Making a Trail Smatterings of frost glistened as David and I packed a rucksack, picked up our boots, Dictaphone, notebook and camera and headed for the Dorset and Somerset borders, with the intent of creating and testing a new trail. The promise of adventure… Read more

A new Seasonal Guide to walking in England

December 14, 2016On the trail Press news 6 Comments

I’ve been fortunate to have travelled and walked in several other countries of the world including America and Europe. Doing so has not only been hugely enjoyable and interesting but it has also helped me to strengthen even further what it is I love about my own country, England. Our… Read more

Spellbound by mist

November 17, 2016Adventure of life On the trail 1 Comment

Sunday’s dawn broke as a golden ball of fire, at first slowly creeping above the horizon, then gathering pace, up, up into the sky. I was spell bound by the mists, hovering almost ghost like above the river. And the light. Great shafts of light. Coming out of the cloud… Read more

Walking The Cotswolds

July 25, 2016Behind the scenes as a new Foot Trail is created No Comments

At this time of year the fields of barley (with its long wispy delicate whiskers) and wheat are starting to turn and ripen. Barley changes beautifully from its vibrant green to a light beige. And wheat, standing tall and proudly as it does in the fields to a golden hue.… Read more

Dorset Royal Chase – New walking trip

April 4, 2016Adventure of life Behind the scenes as a new Foot Trail is created On the trail Press news 1 Comment

New walk in Dorset – Dorset Cottages, part of the Dorset Royal Chase inn to inn It was a small but interesting party who set off keenly on Saturday morning to walk through North Dorset’s spectacular countryside in England. Julia Killick (CBE) and Lynn Bann are Foot Trails newest… Read more

A right pea souper

January 17, 2016Adventure of life Behind the scenes as a new Foot Trail is created On the trail No Comments

We emerge from our car into a right pea souper. Fog hangs like a white veil across the wintry countryside. Everything looks hazy. Soon fine droplets start clinging to our hair and clothes forming a white layer. As we descend the hill the shape of a church tower suddenly emerges… Read more