Our friend Murray Faulkner is walking the Te Araroa Walkway, and when we heard he was about to do the Russell Forest section we decided to join him for a day. Yesterday he took a water taxi from Opua to the Waikare Inlet where he joined his wife Linley and their campervan. We drove up from Auckland and met them there mid-afternoon.
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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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Ashley Green
Today was our final opportunity for an English adventure, so we decided to return to Chesham, our favourite part of London.
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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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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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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Alexandra Palace and Highgate Wood
According to ‘Time Out’, the best farmer’s market in London is held on Sundays at Alexandra Park, so we decided to check it out.
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River Brent
We started today’s walk later than usual, because we wanted to visit a farmer’s market just up the road that starts at 10 AM. Farmers in West Hampstead obviously enjoy an easy life.
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Upminster to Purfleet
The London Loop walk is a 245 Km trail around the outskirts of the city. We have walked along parts of it on previous expeditions, and today we walked the final two sections, totalling 16.5 Km.
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Chess Valley Walk
We spent today walking through the Chiltern Hills, following the 16km Chess Valley Walk.
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Emirates cable car and Richmond Park
Judith is now on her way back to NZ, it’s been fun travelling with her. We’ve been back in London for the last few days, and had several adventures.
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Tantallon and Dirleton Castles
Our walking tour has come to an end due to Felicity injuring her leg. So it looks like we’re going on a castle bagging expedition instead.
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Edinburgh
We arrived back in Edinburgh yesterday afternoon on the train, dropped our gear at the apartment we are staying in, and set off to explore. Just down the road we discovered the museum, and that took up most of our time.
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