Category Archives: Adventure of life

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

Small, spiny visitors at our Wiltshire base

July 20, 2017Adventure of life On the trail 1 Comment

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

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

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

Walking and health hits headlines

August 31, 2015Adventure of life On the trail No Comments

Walking has made the front and prominent pages of some well known British newspapers today. A new scientific research project has concluded that just 20 minutes walking a day can help us to live longer. Cambridge University studied 334 000 people to reach the conclusions. The findings seem hardly… Read more

Dorset in the sunshine – freedom and smiles

August 3, 2015Adventure of life On the trail No Comments

The words were simple but heartfelt this afternoon – “Outdoors is where my soul feels the most calm and relaxed.” David and I were walking in Dorset earlier today. The sun was shining... and as with the vast majority of our trails and routes we pretty much had… Read more

Foot Trails launches – Journey to the Stones

May 9, 2015Adventure of life On the trail Press news No Comments

Debut walk – Journey to the Stones Three days of rain, heavier than we had seen for some time fell confidently in the days before Foot Trails debut Journey to the Stones guided day walk. Shame we said. Then, on Thursday morning (Election day 7th May) as politicians braced themselves,… Read more

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