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We’re in this small village in north Devon because it is on the Tarka Trail, a mostly off-road cycle and walking track, which follows mainly the course of a pre-1960s GWR steam railway. We last walked part of it with … Continue reading →

…and surrounding area.

Waiting to go home from the hospital.

The SS Great Britain in the distance, framed through the rigging of the youth charity training ship Fridtjof Nansen. On opposite sides of Bristol’s Floating Harbour.

Back in Gloucestershire, but the slightly bonkers part, between the Severn and the Wye, otherwise known as the Forest of Dean (“The Forest” to locals). Here, sheep wander freely through towns and on railway lines, and nature is slowly reclaiming … Continue reading →

A Gloucester Wildlife Trust reserve, south of the pretty village of Apperley and next to the Coombe Hill disused canal. Something for everyone! The canal ran from the river Severn, east towards Coombe Hill (not up it, as there were, … Continue reading →

Nothing to do with ships of the desert, the Camel is a river in Cornwall alongside which a railway line once ran, before being “axed” by Dr Richard Beeching in the nineteen-sixties. Dr Beeching unintentionally created many miles of cycle … Continue reading →

The Pier to Pier Way is a new 13-mile cycle route linking Weston-super-Mare and Clevedon. After years of campaigning and negotiating with landowners it has been completed at last. We cycled it, despite an annoying creak from Sal’s bike (later … Continue reading →

A few days away in a village cottage in Dorset, with Miles, Flora, Esme and Mabel the dog. And the next addition to the family who, fortunately, was happy to stay where he/she belongs for the time being. We spent … Continue reading →