Monthly Archives: April 2025

Summer temperatures but it’s still Spring! We continued westward from the river at Llantwit Major beach, past Tresilian Bay and St Donat’s Point. At St Donat’s is a large complex of impressive buildings now forming the centre of the UWC … Continue reading →

Still April but the hottest day of the year, so far, brings the punters out at the Clevedon Marine Lake.

Traditional start to the day with a demonstration of my artistic skill. Sally’s egg being quite realistic, in my opinion. A definite improvement on my 2018 attempt: https://martinsmag.com/2018/04/01/happy-easter/ Later at G&A’s house and an egg hunt for the kids:

More post-industrial walking, this time along the river Avon, east Bristol.

Sally’s painting of leaves from a ginkgo tree in the magnificent gardens of the Penny Brohn Cancer Care Centre in Pill.

Sherston, west of Malmesbury, is a nice, peaceful, historic village on an arm of the river Avon, along which we walked, as well as some of the remoter parts of the Roman Fosse Way.

Westward along the south Wales coast, passing some spectacular natural and man-made views. The Victorians certainly knew how to build things to last. There are several disused limestone quarries near the coast, some now nature reserves, some just desolate, at … Continue reading →