This blog is titled space. And I have chosen this word because for me “space” is one of the joys I find when walking in the English countryside. On days like today, I leave behind my desk, my phone and my computer and to a large extent the trappings of the modern wold, and I willingly and […]
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 gates in a beautiful white frosting of ice crystals. I pulled off my gloves long enough
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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 than usual. The light was so beautiful today it was an easy decision to delay
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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 experience of walking in rural England is all about. We were in capable creative hands
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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 Wiltshire (South West England) was so atmospheric and beautiful that it took me straight back in
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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 seem to us on first appearances to be the harshest of environments, nature and wildlife
Reflections on travel, on rural England Read More »
If you have ever wandered what it looks like at a radio station, here is a picture of one of the studios at BBC Radio Wiltshire in Swindon. As someone who isn’t used to being in a studio every day it can be a busy place to be. The presenter Mark O’Donnell (above left)
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Ask each one of us what walking (or hiking) means to us and we will probably (and hopefully) all come up with our own meaning and take on it. It’s pretty individual. Right up there for me though, along with fresh air, freedom, nature and adventure is “togetherness”. Sometimes I like to walk alone
I have just returned from a trip to France during which I succeeded in climbing Europe’s largest sand dune which is called Dune de Pyla. The sand was so hot it almost burnt my feet and only the Sauterelles (a type of large jumping insect like a cricket) seemed totally comfortable with the
Very British – walking in England (reflections of a francophile) Read More »
On a warm summer’s day today when the sun shone brightly and our English skies were a dreamy blue, I took a short walk in North Dorset with David to check part of our trail on the Truly Madly Deeply Dorset and Wiltshire and Dorset Borders walking holidays. It was difficult to image a more
Dorset’s Meadows weave their spell Read More »
I have held a desire to travel for as long as I can remember. When I was a young girl my adventures were around the farm in England where I lived. I would disappear for the day and just roam and explore. Make all sorts of discoveries. Let my imagination run wild and return home
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I am writing on route to Oxfordshire’s Windrush Valley on a glorious sunny June day. Here, with the children helping us, David and I will be putting together a short trail for guests to enjoy. There is an air of expectation. Driving through Wiltshire’s countryside the landscapes whizzing past the glass windows are bursting with
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