We celebrated our Wedding Anniversary in this historic market town (see photo). During our stay I walked 36.34 miles, a total of 92,427 steps on our various adventures. Watch this space to see the places we visited.
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4 Comments CherryPie on Jun 11th 2022
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Lunching and Walking
We headed off to a local garden centre with lunch in mind. We enjoyed browsing around the garden centre but the lunch options did not tempt us. After paying our respects to Her Majesty we drove to Wightwick Manor only to find that the car park was closed because it was full.
We eventually found lunch [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Jun 3rd 2022
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Royal Connections
The first day of the bank holiday commemorating the Platinum Jubilee of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II saw us visiting Boscobel House. Boscobel House is famous as a hiding place for King Charles II when fleeing for his life after his defeat in the Civil War. He spent a night in one of priest [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jun 2nd 2022
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Day One of My June Walking Challenge
June sees the return of the Civil Service Walking challenge. The challenge is to walk on average 10000 steps per day for the month of June which for me is around 4 miles per day.
A lot of my steps were taken whilst out and about shopping for essentials. There was however a window of opportunity [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Jun 1st 2022
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Sunday Afternoon in the Sun
The morning weather looked unpromising so we tried to find a rainy day option for our adventures. This proved challenging because the things that inspired us were surprisingly all shut on Sunday’s! We opted to have lunch at home followed by a trip to a garden centre. On the way we stopped off for me [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on May 30th 2022
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Keep it Secret Keep it Safe
My medal for completing the first stage of my Lord of the Rings challenge has arrived. I promise to try to keep the ring secret and safe until I can throw it into the fires of Mount Doom. I am making good progress on the next stage of my journey which takes me to the [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on May 27th 2022
