Out and about in the UK with Ali and Hoover Page. Also known as Out With Hooves!
Butser Hill is the most glorious place, high up on the South Downs, roughly three miles down the A3 from Petersfield. It forms part of the South Downs Way, which runs for approximately 100 miles from Winchester in Hampshire to Eastbourne in East Sussex. At 271m high it is the highest point on the main ridge of the …
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Crickley Hill Country Park is beautiful spot located just outside Cheltenham between Birdlip and Shurdington (map) where the hills of the Cotswolds hug the Regency spa town of Cheltenham, in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). We began our dog walk with a view at Crickley Hill Country Park, Cheltenham in the car park, which is reached …
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One early spring day Hoover and I decided to follow The Gruffalo Trail in Wendover Woods, Buckinghamshire. I love walking deep in ‘proper’ woods with Hooves because every now and then you realise you can’t hear a single car (not so easy in the Home Counties) and you can almost kid yourself that you are the only beings …
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I had a meeting with a client over in the Warfield direction this morning so Hooves and I used it as an excuse to explore some reasonably local yet unchartered territory, and so we headed for a dog walk in Warfield Woods, Hare Hatch. It was one of those early Autumn mornings that look most unappealing when you look …
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I fell in love with stunning Hengistbury Head, near Bournemouth (map) the first time I visited. Our family had just acquired a static caravan on a site just outside Christchurch for the summer months of 2009 and upon waking up on my first morning there I set off in search of somewhere to give Hugo (these were pre-Hoover days) …
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