Tagged With "Avon"

Wow, such a cool walking trip! I have to take one of these canal walks now!

A lovely blog PM delightful to read your 'take' on the canals. We have a very active canal restoration group working in our area - the Stroudwater Canal. They have a virtual lifetime's work ahead of them to complete the ambitious projects that they have underway - but they are making progress!

I've enjoyed canoeing and walking on some of our eastern canals (Chesapeake and Potomac, Delaware and a couple of others) but unfortunately we don't seem to have kept serious stretches in shape for either shipping or recreation as has happened in England and France...too bad for us! Looks like a lovely walk...

WOW that brings back memories......makes me want to go back to England ! Thanks for the pleasant journey!

  One of the prettiest cottages anywhere, dating to the 15th century, is just a mile from Stratford on Avon.  Anne Hathaway lived in this 12 room home as a child.  She is best known for being the wife of the bard, William Shakespeare,...

My discovery of the Kennet & Avon Canal was a revelation. Id been confronted with a dilemma, the fact that I loved walking in the English countryside but had come to the conclusion that I could no longer take on the hills comfortably. Bath is the end point of more than 100 miles of the Cotswold Way and Id completed it in 3 trips. The last section left me wondering if my walking days were over, having had some tortuous ascents and descents and...

Another Chinese reproduction of western architecture, this time with 16th century villages where Shakespeare and Cervantes were born.

DrFumblefinger enjoys a nice day along the River Avon in Stratford-upon-Avon, in the company of many swans.

Thank you for the nice pictures of swans, which are common throughout England on suitable rivers and canals. Back in 2010 we had a very cold winter and even a white Christmas. These swans were quite confused when the River Exe in Exeter froze over, but they are still looking for food.

PortMoresby takes a 54 mile walk along one of England’s most beautiful canals.