Saturday morning and our Trip Planner David Howell is busy taking care of emails, calls and requests from guests looking to travel with us in 2018. It’s a busy time of year.
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Surely one of the greatest joys of walking is its ability to hone our observation skills.
I’ve loved being outside all my life, and for the last 17 years that passion has played it’s part in my efforts contributing
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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 to the outside of David’s rucksack.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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A sunny day, mid-May, and a walk that has a bit of everything—thatched cottages, castle ruins, grand country estates and
Somerset: A land of orchards & cider, dairy & cheese, and very much a rural idyll. But it got me
Photography credits: Alison & David Howell. Alun Callender, The National Trust, English Heritage
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