A visit to Scotney Castle with Mom.
With my Mom in town alone and Jo working, we decided to visit a National Trust gem, Scotney Castle. This 14th-century moated castle also has a Victorian country mansion on the property. It was...
With my Mom in town alone and Jo working, we decided to visit a National Trust gem, Scotney Castle. This 14th-century moated castle also has a Victorian country mansion on the property. It was...
2021 turned out to be another busy and fun year for Bowen despite lockdowns, silly Covid rules and no holidays abroad or family visiting us. However, the year certainly started off like no other...
It was a lovely morning to do the parkrun, my fourth and Jo’s sixth park walk. 😉 There was quite a large crowd today, which included a school of youngsters. For most of the...
We were in Royal Leamington Spa for a night and a day, primarily to watch the County Lawn Bowls championships that were being held there for a couple of days. We drove up on...
Second Parkrun walk completed at Reigate Priory. Our second Parkrun at Reigate Priory was a much better performance. We dressed a lot lighter and didn’t carry a backpack or wear long pants, hiking boots or...
First Parkrun walk completed at Reigate Priory. It was the first Parkrun event in England for over a year and since they welcome anyone to run, jog, crawl or walk we thought we’d give...
Today we took a drive out to Holmwood Common in Surrey, where there is a National Trust circular walk around a pond and a relatively large common. It was a pleasant walk along decent...
We visited the dramatic coastline of Pembrokeshire in Wales and were treated to a lovely ramble along the clifftops at Martin’s Haven, a National Trust site with paths to Marloes Sands. Clifftop walk The...
This was a pleasant walk in the pouring rain to explore two World War 2 forts perched high on the cliffs.
We spent the morning walking in Dartmoor National Park with the goal of reaching Haytor Tor in the afternoon.
Today we walked to Happy Valley Park in Old Coulsdon, Surrey and back home to Bletchingley. We hadn’t planned on such a long walk 13 miles, but it was a beautiful day and it...
We started our walk at the Bletchingley golf course and made our way to Place farm, then up the steep hill to Hextalls Lane, which took us past some amazing properties. At the top...
That is right, today we joined the East Surrey Walkers and Ramblers. Part of moving to Surrey was to get out more, and now that we are surrounded by countryside, there is no excuse...