Post-Christmas recovery

Thank you Carol for taking us to Blagdon and its lovely Lake. It also made a good cycle ride next day to recover my keys and car!

Norton St Phillip - John Leggat's photos of stroll

Thank you Carol and Anne for a lovely sunny November walk 

Sunday 7th October Plans

We meet at Temple Meads Station by the ticket barrier early in the morning.

* Train Minibus and short ferry will get us to Kingsweir, where

** Walkers will set off for a two and a half hour coastal path walk (bring packed lunch; possibility of dip in sea) to Coleton Fishacre (NT) where we shall spend about an hour and a half (coffee beer etc. available); the walk back inland is about one and a half hours.

** Less strenuous options (no need to decide until we are on train to Totnes) include:

taking boat from Dartmouth to Totnes and back 

taking steam train Kingsweir to Goodrington Sands and back

taking taxi to Coleton Fishacre (price INCLUDED) and walking 2 miles mainly downhill back to Kingsweir

pub lunches are possible in Kingsweir.

* We will all meet up in Kingsweir at about 5.30pm for ferry to Dartmouth for tea.

* We shall also pick up pre-ordered quiches (choice is Goat's Cheese(v); Mushroom and Cheese (v); Leek and Cheese (v) OR Quiche Lorraine - PLEASE LET us know) for the train home to Bristol

* We shall leave Dartmouth by minibus to Totnes to catch trains home (one change onto train which should have a buffet on board)

* We should arrive back in Temple Meads just before 10pm.

We trust you will enjoy it - no guarantees about weather or anything else for that matter!

David and Diana

Day out 7th October- weather like this? or not?

Watch this space and emails for arrangements and booking up with Diana and David. IF YOU SEE THIS EMAIL ME FOR AN EARLY BIRD PRICE!

May 13th : Summer on a Sunday in Forest of Dean!

Welcome break in dank and gloomy weather with a refreshing walk along the Severn and the margins of the Forest of Dean around Newnham.

Varied and enjoyable shimmy through long lush grasses and around the oxbow of the Severn. Long views to the Cotswold scarp - Do we feel better for a long view ? Does this have value ? Could we happily live in the city without it ?
Exercise for the little grey cells as well.

Thank you Michael and Alison.

Nine lovely miles !

     

1st April : Bus stops to Stockwood and the Avon

Fickle weather (it was the 1st of April) provided a bright Spring Day for local exploration.


We took the 54 bus almost to the end of the line in Stockwood. Past Horse World and across pastures to Queen Charlton, then Keynsham for lunch by the river, and back along the River Avon trail, up to the Ring Road and to Hicks Gate for a 339 back into Bristol.


God (and Mr Cameron)  bless the Bus Pass !

4 March 2012 : Barbury Castle

A great walk along the Ridgeway with rather more exposure to the vagaries of  climate change than we would have liked. Horizontal snow before lunch and blue skies in the afternoon -evidence below.

Thank goodness for the lunch break and alcoholic resuscitation...still the pheasant had a swift dispatch.

Memorable day all round ! 

Can you recognise anybody in that gear?


Bit of Hockney in the afternoon ?

January 8 Bristol City Centre

Following a sculpture trail around the city centre of Bristol provided a lively walk in sunny January to start the year.

Judith and Stephen provided welcome hot soup and home made bread which somehow transmuted into a party event . A memorable day.