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Winter Frost in Wiltshire

As a bright sun rose this morning in Wiltshire I grabbed my camera and boots as quickly as I could and headed outside into the village. A sharp winter frost had fallen overnight and encased the countryside, villages, trees and iron

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Foot Trails walks to Downing Street

Friday 6th December is a day I will always remember. The morning arrived. A spectacular winters day in London. Bright, cold and clear with some pale sunshine and blue skies. We were tremendously honoured and proud that Foot Trails is one of 100 small

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Foot Trails hits the news headlines

It gives us a great boost when journalists, magazines and others write about what Foot Trails are doing in rural tourism. We are proud of our rural walking holidays and love it when others shout about our experiences. In the last couple of weeks

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Ending of autumn / cusp of winter

We are truly lucky this year to be enjoying such a super long lasting autumn. By this time of year colours have usually all but faded. This year in the South West of England the trees have held on to their leaves for much longer

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Foot Trails wins UK GoldStar, Activity Provider

Wohoo is the word! THE WORLD’S leading sustainable tourism accreditation programme has honoured Foot Trails as one of Britain’s most environmentally friendly businesses at a prestigious national awards ceremony. The 2013 Green Tourism GoldStar Awards saw more than 2,400 contenders

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Foot Trails makes its first film

  On Thursday 31st October we set out to make our first ever film about Foot Trails. Exciting! Keen to share our message with the wider world we wanted to communicate who we are, what we do and what the

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Autumn Walk in an English Woodland

When I was a young girl I spent hours concocting imaginative stories about enchanted woods. The stories were of course inspired by real places I visited often in my childhood. And my walk this afternoon in the woodlands pictured above in

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Reflections on travel, on rural England

I was reminded just recently by a visit to California in the USA how beauty can be found everywhere. Even in the desert which I was extremely fortunate to visit and walk in. Nature truly is incredible. In what can

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