Your walk today...

[sevenfourate]

Sunday Mornings ❤️

 

[PeteXXX]

Nice beach stroll with the dogs fairly early this morning.

What's over there!!? Looks interesting!

Just a few miles but the dogs enjoyed it 🐶 🐕

 

[sevenfourate]

With my usual partner in crime:

……sidelined for a couple of weeks after an operation ☹️…out Solo I went today:

Oulton Broad was the plan. And across the 1800’s looking Railway Station I stumbled:

Before reaching the Broad Proper:

Swans,Geese and water-birds a plenty:

Flowers layed at Waveney and Oulton Broad Yacht Club; for the boat racer killed 10 days or so ago - when during a race he hit a static houseboat ‘well off the course’. Investigations are ongoing - they believe it may have been steering failure ☹️

A Pontoon / Jetty beyond economical repair 🙄

And back home through Normanston park. With new set aside / nature area to the left….

6 and a bit miles. Couple of bits of toast earned 😁

 

[Poacher]

Just a short walk in the Peak District. Truly I am blessed; Graham has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the Peak and is expert at arranging short (8 to 10km) circular walks with a pub lunch around halfway, and Crazy Nick does the driving. We picked Graham up in Matlock just after a short but savage downpour and set off up the A6, turning off at Ashford in the Water to find a good parking spot at Monsal Head.

After following the Wye downstream for a short way above Monsal Dale we walked over the higher ground towards Ashford, passing the Iron Age hill fort of Fin Cop. Graham knew one of the archaeologists who had discovered the skeletons of women and children who had apparently been killed, thrown into the ditch and covered with rocks from the destruction of the fortifications. I'm not superstitious, but it wasn't somewhere I would like to camp overnight. Descending into Ashford we passed some spectacularly horned sheep.

After a huge and delicious meal in the Bull's Head we were face with some unavoidable roadside walking along the Baslow road, until we could cut off Northwards through the Thornbridge Estate. Here Nick found some very vocal Old Spot(?) pigs.

A view of Thornbridge Hall from the SE, with Graham striding purposefully past.

Is someone missing a tandem? If so, you can find it in the garden centre at Thornbridge.

Rather than continuing via Great and Little Longstone we decided to follow the Monsal Trail, through the Headstone Tunnel

and back to our starting point, well, quite a height below it, so we had some more exercise to use up some of the excess calories we'd consumed. This view is at the E end of the viaduct, looking N

 

[Andy in Germany]

Wandered along the main road, across the river Neckar, dumped some clothes in the donations bin, then wandered across the village football pitch, past the village beach volleyball court, and back over the Neckar on the footbridge, and then along the road to my flat.
Not the most epic walk, but it makes me happy...

 

[Wheelspinner]

Just the usual wander back along the coast this afternoon, been a nice day and looked rather pretty for just a few moments before sundown.

 

[sevenfourate]

4 mile; hike around Gunton Warren / Clifftop - on a truly gorgeous Morning……

 

[PeteXXX]

Only shortish local walks for a while but I have a plan for Friday... 👍

 

[PeteXXX]

Up at stupid o'clock to drive 2 hours to the Peak District for a hike I'd planned a couple of weeks ago..
Parking at Burbage Bridge, it's a fairly easy (plus a steep bit, too) up to Stanage Edge..

Stanage Trig Point, pre-dawn.

And facing the east..
The walk continued along the Edge to Wyming Brook via Stanedge Pole. Part of Wyming was closed for works so I had to scramble down a steep bank to get to the trail alongside the river.

Well worth it though.. 👍

Half-way stop overlooking Rivelin Dams & reservoir before heading back up Wyming Brook then several footpaths & bridleways towards Ringinglow where I found the pub open & serving coffee. Most welcome & it perked me up for the last 3 miles to Ox Stones & the Trig point.

Perfect weather; not cold & not too hot, though it was warming up by the time I finished at about 10:30.

A smidge under 13 miles and my longest hike for a while.
👍

 

[sevenfourate]

Nice Sunrise in Lowestoft today…..

*Seizing life with all 4 paws 🤣

 

[wafter]

Sadly no pictures, however.... after being thoroughly wrung out by the week I finally got out of bed at half twelve following a load of patchy sleep and the decision to write the day off in the name of recovery.

By late afternoon I was actually awake and went out for a walk in the bright but stormy outside. Ended up doing about 12.5 miles on a big circular that included woodland, hills, the chip shop, supermarket, city centre and finally tow paths.

Very pleasant for many reasons, but I think I'll be feeling it tomorrow..

 

[sevenfourate]

Got in the car and went a few miles up the Coast to Kessingland in Suffolk early this Morning….

🐾❤️

 

[FrankCrank]

A somewhat famous bridge for today's walk

And yesterday another bridge, this time in Sangkhla Buri

This is less famous, but a great achievement nonetheless for the local Mon people who built it. Spanning 400 meters, in connects the Mon settlement with the Thai side of the lake.

 

[Toshiba Boy]

A somewhat famous bridge for today's walk
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And yesterday another bridge, this time in Sangkhla Buri
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This is less famous, but a great achievement nonetheless for the local Mon people who built it. Spanning 400 meters, in connects the Mon settlement with the Thai side of the lake.

Myself and Mrs TB were in Sri Lanka a few years ago, holidaying and visiting her eldest son, my stepson, who is a professional cricketer, and was playing out there at the time.

The 3 of us went white water rafting, and after the white water element of the rafting, had a gentle drift down the river towards the sea.

We slowly drifted round a bend and my mouth literally dropped, as there before us, was what looked like the exact bridge from the film, from the exact viewpoint you would see it in many of the scenes, but, as I say we were in Sri Lanka.

I turned to the Sri Lankan guy at the stern, and he just smiled, and then said, "Yes, that's the bridge they used in the film".

 

[FrankCrank]

Myself and Mrs TB were in Sri Lanka a few years ago, holidaying and visiting her eldest son, my stepson, who is a professional cricketer, and was playing out there at the time.

The 3 of us went white water rafting, and after the white water element of the rafting, had a gentle drift down the river towards the sea.

We slowly drifted round a bend and my mouth literally dropped, as there before us, was what looked like the exact bridge from the film, from the exact viewpoint you would see it in many of the scenes, but, as I say we were in Sri Lanka.

I turned to the Sri Lankan guy at the stern, and he just smiled, and then said, "Yes, that's the bridge they used in the film".

I heard they filmed it there in Sri Lanka.
As to the actual bridge, the more you delve, the murkier it gets.
I'll settle for occasional visits to this local attraction, and leave the real story to history.
The Hellfire Pass is a much closer feel of what went on, and really brings it alive, if that's the right term.