The idea of Foot Trails started over 25 years ago on a 3 month hike across France, a journey from the Channel to the Mediterranean. On foot, living in the landscape with a tent, seeing where each day took us. The joy of the interaction with the landscape and being a part of the landscape […]
Back to Origins – Adventure on the moor Read More »
David and I were recently in Dorset with the purpose of creating a brand new Trail. Read more about our adventures and new trail here.
NEW trail in Dorset Read More »
NEW! Launch of Devon Creek to Coast Inn to Inn walking adventure. We’re excited to launch our newest Foot Trail. Click to find out more.
NEW! Launch of Devon Creek to Coast Inn to Inn Read More »
Friday 28 September 2018, a mixed group of people gathered on the Fonthill Country Estate in deepest rural Wiltshire (South West England) to celebrate the last decade of Foot Trails, the opening of our new HQ and to look forward with us to the next steps (excuse the pun!) for Foot Trails
New rural HQ for Team Foot Trails Read More »
Have you dreamed of walking through the English countryside? You can, with a custom made Foot Trail. Our 2019 brochure is now live and we are open for 2019 bookings. With 55 pages of trails, inspiration, ideas and suggestions you can walk and dream your way through each page, discovering who Foot Trails are as
Hike England – 2019 brochure live Read More »
It is, currently, “raining cats and dogs” in Wiltshire, Bath and through the West country.
Are animals falling from the sky?! No, this strange sounding phrase originates from 17th century England and means, it’s raining heavily.
No-one is sure precisely how it came about but it’s certainly stuck!
Phrase of the week – Raining Cats and Dogs Read More »
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.
Each Foot Trail is custom made.
What does this mean?
Custom made walking. What is it? Read More »
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.
NEW! 2018 Foot Trails brochure is launched Read More »
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.
Small, spiny visitors at our Wiltshire base Read More »
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.
June – summer wild flower meadows, grasses & green-ness Read More »
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.
New – Kings of Wessex – Making a trail Read More »
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 and firing downwards in straight lines towards the autumn countryside below. It was dawn and I was, as I often am, out walking, with David, near our Wiltshire home.
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