Out and about in the UK with Ali and Hoover Page. Also known as Out With Hooves!
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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The Spectacular Deer Rut at Bushy Park in Hampton, London is a sight to behold so last Saturday Hoover and I thought we’d head towards The Big Smoke for a change to visit the Royal Park and see the spectacle for ourselves. London is an area we’d usually avoid as for us it conjures up images of …
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If it’s a walk in an English woodland that you’re looking for then a visit to meet the remarkable trees of Swinley Forest in Berkshire is for you. Situated to the south-west of Windsor Great Park the forest stretches from Bracknell, in the north, to Bagshot, in the south. It is owned and managed by the Crown Estate and …
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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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