Reporting Days: 31
Location: Mostly Oxford
Distance walked: 300 km
Distance driven: 190 km
Photographs Taken: Hundreds
Mostly Oxford
I always think that Spring-time is a best time to be in Oxford - and while there were quite a few lovely Spring-like days, there were also quite a few days when Spring felt like a distant promise!
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| Rainbow Bridge, University Parks |
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| Jubilee Bridge, Christ Church Meadow |
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| Bluebells, University Parks |
London Days
Another Oxford month also means easy access to London, and on most London days I seem to wind up wandering beside the river. Eventually I'll get round to walking the whole of the Thames Path again, but in the meantime, I'll keep doing wee bits of the Path.
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| Canary Wharf, London |
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| London Eye, South Bank, London |
Island Break
Usually when I make reference to an 'island break', it's a sure sign that I'm heading north to Shetland's beaches and headlands. But just occasionally that means south.
We are regular visitors to Alderney - our first visit was in 1994, our second was in 2009 so we just had to add a 2024 visit to the diary. Next visit 2039? Our 'usual' hotel is closed at the moment for what looks like a very major refurbishment, but lots of the other landmarks didn't seem to have changed much and the flight into Alderney airport is still serviced by very small planes (even smaller than the Logonair Saabs that serviced Shetland until very recently).
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| Braye Harbour, Alderney |
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| Platte Saline, Alderney |
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| Braye Bay, Alderney |
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| Flying with Aurigny, Alderney Airport |
Next Month
Back on the trains to Italy, for a Spring-time visit to Lombardy.