I’d like to share another easy countryside ramble near the village where I grew up, Molesworth. On this occasion we started walking with my parents and Asher (my sister’s dog.) My parents came with us from Old Weston to RAF Molesworth (an American military base a few fields away from our village). Then we continued the rest of the walk back home as we wanted to keep walking. This post will give you a taste of what it’s like to…
Whenever Marc and I go home to visit his parents in Nottingham, we always get to take the lovely Elsa (his family’s English Setter) for walkies. We’ve been to Burntstump Country Park a few times now because it is great as an off-lead dog walk in Nottingham. It is also full of squirrels (which is great for providing extra puppy-joy to Elsa.) When we went home at Christmas we both needed a longer leg-stretch after being cooped up in airplanes/cars/trains…
The Tantalus view Lookout seems like it would be a fantastic trail at any time of year, but it is especially lovely during the shoulder season*, or in winter when the higher trails are too full of snow to allow you to walk. The trail winds its way around the Brohm Lake Interpretive Forest and leads you to several stunning viewpoints that look out to the Tantalus Mountain range. We did this walk in the first week of March. The…
I’ve already written once about hiking along the Dog Mountain trail in summer (well… autumn!) But it turns out Dog mountain is even better in the snow! The snow evens out the trail, so once you have snowshoes, this is an easy, fun hike that will give you some stunning views on a good day. We managed the whole Dog Mountain trail in less than 2 hours. So, as we had time we also explored some of the other pretty…