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Old Bangkok

While most of Bangkok is a modern high-rise city, there are still a few corners left with historic buildings. With a day to kill before my flight home to Auckland, I went for a walk to check some out.
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Prapradaeng bike ride

I arrived in Bangkok about midnight UK time, but since it was early morning here I just took my gear to the hotel, cleared my email then headed out to explore an area called Bang Nam Phueng. By bike!
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Ashley Green

Today was our final opportunity for an English adventure, so we decided to return to Chesham, our favourite part of London.

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New River and Pymme’s Brook

As we walked from the underground towards the Alexandra Park farmer’s market, we decided that the food we ate on our last visit was so good that we would patronise the same stalls. So we were disappointed to discover that none of them were there this week.
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River Pinn Celandine Walk

When I looked at the Google map of Uxbridge this morning I noticed a path labelled Celandine Walk, and it seemed like a good destination for the day.
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Watford and Whipendell Wood

The bike and I have been out at Watford today, enjoying a bit of forest riding.
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Cambridge

Felicity had a meeting today with someone at the university here, so we are staying a couple of nights.
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Somerset

Although we haven’t been far out of town, our focus today has mostly been on the region around Glastonbury.
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Glastonbury

We discovered this is a very spiritual town when Felicity booked our accommodation. Nearly every B&B seems to be situated on a ley line, offers massage, healing, or 100% organic, vegetarian breakfasts.
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Rickmansworth

We intended to walk around Chesham today, but it turns out there are not many trains up that branch of the Metropolitan line in the middle of the day, so we switched to plan B on the way and got off the train at Rickmansworth.
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Brompton

We saw another fox today, and this time Felicity got some photos!
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Lesnes Abbey Woods

Our trip to Erith this morning took a lot longer than we expected; we spent nearly an hour parked in a tunnel until they worked out that our train could push the broken-down train out of the station just ahead of us. When our carriage finally moved next to the platform, we had to get out and transfer to a third train that was stuck behind us. I can’t imagine the chaos this would have caused if it had occurred during rush hour on a weekday!
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River Lee and Limehouse Cut

After lunch today we caught the tube to Hackney Wick and joined the River Lee walk. We have previously explored up-river from here, but this time we were heading down stream to the Thames.
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Loughton to Buckhurst Hill via Epping Forest

I woke to hear rain last night, so I wondered if I was making a wise decision to go bike riding in Epping Forest again today. But the forecast claimed the rain had passed, and I figured the likelihood of muddy conditions isn’t going to diminish in the next few weeks, so I decided to seize the opportunity.
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River Crane

When we began the River Brent walk last Saturday, we passed a signboard pointing to another river walk in the opposite direction, which looked interesting. These two walks are both part of the London Loop. Unfortunately today we made the mistake of returning to Richmond and crossing the bridge to find the sign again, instead of starting at Twickenham station as the trail notes suggested.
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