Out and about in the UK with Ali and Hoover Page. Also known as Out With Hooves!
Roaming in The Surrey Hills, and further afield…
Just before Christmas, on a damp Monday, a friend and I met up with our pooches for a dog walk and a pub lunch together before the madness of Christmas took hold of our lives. After a great walk around Virginia Water Lake we had a delicious lunch at The Bailiwick in Englefield Green – a very dog friendly …
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Nearly 800 years ago, King John met with a group of barons on the water meadows at Runnymede. This was the site where he sealed the Magna Carta, seen by many as the symbolic first step on the road to modern democracy. Today Runnymede has several memorials to the ongoing struggle for liberty, and I have always …
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I have driven up and down the A3 more times than I care to remember but had never found the time for a dog walk around The Devil’s Punchbowl in Hindhead. Since the opening in 2011 of the new stretch of bypass, including the Hindhead tunnel, I have enjoyed bypassing the bottle neck that was the traffic lights at …
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New Haw Lock on The River Wey, New Haw, Surrey is a pretty little spot, located slap bang in the middle of a largely residential area in the heart of Surrey. (map) There is a little car park right by the lock, located to south east of it, so if you find yourself at The White Hart pub …
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