1 November. The highlight was the wonderful autumn colours of the trees. We started from Egham station with 14 people. After walking along a path past allotments and sturdy ponies grazing in fields, we went through a variety of environments – woods, scrub and bushes, and short sections on pavements. Read more
Saturday 25 October – fourteen of us started out on this sunny morning from Hampstead tube station to the West Heath where, en-route, we passed ‘The Holly Bush’ pub and Fenton House, a 17th Century Merchant’s House, now owned by the National Trust. By the time we entered the woods, Read more
11 October. Sally led a walk from Lewes up on to the South Downs, with some glorious views. We had lunch at Rodmel and then we returned with a walk along the foot of the Downs. (Photos by Sally and Christine M.)
This was a replacement walk as my planned one from Petersfield was scuppered by railway engineering works. The weather forecast was dire, with storm Amy expected. Despite this, there were six of us who took a punt on the rain staying away. We alighted from the train at Witley, a Read more
Saturday 27 September – it so happened that on this very day the Women’s Rugby World Cup Final between the English ‘Red Roses’ and the Canadian team was taking place at the Twickenham stadium. Although the match wasn’t due to kick off until 4pm, the Rugby fever was already very Read more
20 September. 18 ramblers were safely escorted across the railway track at East Malling on a slightly overcast but ultimately dry day for a relatively gentle outing in the Kent countryside. A slight incline through fields, then mostly paths in woods reaches the outskirts of Wateringbury. A friendly walker treated Read more
2 August. Seventeen walkers set off from Mortimer station for this walk of just over 8 miles which was partly in Berkshire & party in Hampshire. We quickly reached Foundry Brook, which we followed through fields, before a short section on a country lane. After circumnavigating a large field of Read more
9 August. This approximately 8 mile flat walk was a new one for the group and 13 walkers joined the leaders mostly arriving via the Elizabeth Line. Twyford appears to be a rather sleepy town but the station can be busy here, where there is a connection to nearby Henley. Read more
31 July. The forecast was for thunderstorms and heavy rain, which may have deterred some from joining us. But the twelve who turned up for Barbara’s walk were rewarded with a mostly dry day (just a brief shower in the afternoon). This is a favourite walk which Barbara has led Read more
5 July. We were a total of seven as we set off from Berwick Station shortly after 10 am, the trains and connections having worked perfectly. And the temperature was a bit cooler – a brief respite from the oven-furnace heatwave. The sky was overcast, but it did not rain Read more