Every step of the way…

These boots were made for walking...

There’s a plethora of walking sites out there so why look at ours? Because it’s got something that not many of the others can boast. We’ve walked every step of the way ourselves. So you know that what you’re reading is the real thing. And there you were, thinking it was just an attractive way for us to display our holiday snaps.

Long-distance walking is unbeatable for a lot of reasons – the sense of freedom and achievement, the inches off your waistline, the fantastic memories and the chance to meet people and see places that you would never otherwise have come across. But nothing worthwhile is ever easy. Here’s where you can learn what it was really like…

Latest news

Reed-cutting

In this part of the county there’s very little wetland – so one local patch is looked after by the council’s countryside management service to ensure that this important habitat is looked after properly.

Grand Union

Some pictures from a wintry walk along the Grand Union Canal in Milton Keynes. No snow on the ground but quite cold enough for the surface of this shallow waterway to be frozen.

Making plans

We’re in the midst of terrible winter blues here. Short days, freezing weather, perpetual rain and gloom – this really is the climate of the British Isles at its worst and we could well have to wait two months for it to break and signs of spring to appear. It hardly bothers to get light before dusk is falling again. Time to plan a holiday…

Flying west to Exmoor for the winter

Thoroughly fed up with the snow, the cold and the grey skies in the east of England, we fled west. A four-day break on Exmoor has given us an abundance of clear blue skies, mild weather and sunshine before we had to return home to the cold and damp and the refrozen slush on the verges.

Stargazing

People who are interested in astronomy and the night sky are in for a treat in the next day or two as the Geminid meteor shower passes overhead on December 13-14.