Some highlights from my post Windsor holiday walks.
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4 Comments CherryPie on Jun 28th 2022
4 Comments CherryPie on Mar 18th 2022
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
For me there is only the travelling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length – and there I travel looking, looking breathlessly.
Carlos Castaneda
11 Comments CherryPie on Mar 14th 2022
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Durham Night & Day
8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 6th 2022
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Two Short Walks
Mr C and I enjoyed a New Year’s day visit to Wightwick Manor. We arrived just in time for lunch and were pleased to see a hot turkey, stuffing and gravy roll on the menu. When our lunch arrived it was much larger than we had anticipated! After lunch we visited the house and gallery [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Jan 2nd 2022
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Jesmond Dene
It is probable that the steep sided valley we know as Jesmond Dene has always been wooded, but gradually, industries crept in and by the 19th century the Dene was home to watermills, various quarries and pits and an iron foundry. Prior to the mid 1800s the woodland was probably more straggly than today and interspersed with a heavy undergrowth [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Oct 16th 2021
