Blogs from Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 47

Well it is presently one o clock in the afternoon on a beautiful saturday that has a prevailing head wind making racing a little tougher...but I tend to favour the head wind so racing is set up to be a success. Esther and I just completed our Semifinal in the double and we got through without to much concern to the final. So in a few hours we will tackle the quad (sarah, emma, Esther and Me) and then only a half hour later esther and I do the double final. Fingers crossed. So my summary about my experiences in England go something like this: We arrived to the rain that GB is so well known for and went back and forth from the henley to Putney were we trained on the not so still tideway. ... read more

Thursday 6th July My brain is very tired tonight whilst I try and write up the days events. So to make it easier on the poor little thing I am going to do bullets: • Rain, thunder, rain, power cut, more rain • Rain stopped about 9:30am so off I went • Very wet walking • Got lost in some woods… very beautiful, not sure the photo does it justice • Trusted my compass and got out of the woods • Met a man walking his dog and chatted. He lost his wife to liver cancer in March and he is going to do the Coast to Coast walk with his daughter next week for a cancer charity. I warned him he would have a lot of time to think. Also turned out he was a ... read more

Tuesday 4th July Set off extra early this morning to ensure I wasn’t walking in the heat. It felt amazing for the first couple of miles, my feet were fine, my backpack was fine, and it wasn’t hot, and my legs felt like they could walk forever. I did get tired as the morning went on but everything seems manageable when your feet are OK! I am finally on the Oxfordshire Way, the first of the national trails I am following home, and it is fantastic walking well sign posted and the paths are well maintained and cleared of tall vegetation, like nettles! This is the way footpaths should be, thank you to whichever European Committee gave us all the money to do the layout and maintain these trails! Beautiful countryside to walk through at the ... read more

I've finally got to somewhere where I can access the internet (Rob and Sasha's Guest House is Worcester) so time to catch up on my blog.... I totally understand if you don't read them all and actually it might be a good idea if you don't since then I can still be slightly interesting when I re-tell you all the stories next time I see you! Sunday 2nd July Just a quick jaunt this evening with Andrew dropping me off exactly where I finished last Sunday at the Poletrees B&B. The temperature at 5:45pm on Andrews’s car was 29.5C so I was glad I hadn't tried starting walking any earlier in the day! Fields of sheep were my main challenge today but since they run away from you instead of towards you they are far ... read more

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