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When walking the Gloucestershire Way last year, I called at Don Hunter's workshop in Shipton Oliffe. We haven't had any need for fu...

Satish Kumar came to the University of Gloucestershire this afternoon for what he called a fireside chat: no open log fire there, unlike at ...

Brendan Bowles, Director of A Rocha 's Climate Stewards, paid a visit to Cheltenham last evening, to speak at a meeting of Christian Eco...

Happy St James' Day! It also happens to be the day when I've put the finishing touches to my new book about our month on The Way of ...

There are three ways to tackle this problem, all with drawbacks for the cyclist (like me) who is aware of Old Father Time's approach. T...

Yesterday marked the start of this year's Cheltenham Science Festival, which seems to attract bigger audiences year by year: certainly, ...

Michael Northcott came to Cheltenham last evening, to address a Cheltenham Inter Faith meeting. His talk was based upon his 2007 book, ...

Nicki Gwynn-Jones ARPS has a new exhibition of her photographs in Cheltenham: it opened this evening, "A bird's eye view". He...

For once Cheltenham has had a dry late May Bank Holiday Monday this year. And The Suffolks were thronged with happy-looking people, strolli...

We were at Highnam yesterday on a sunny evening for the opening of this year's Carducci Festival, a glorious event! The young and enga...

It was a fine day for Cheltenham's first carnival for many years. The children loved it, especially the extremely well-behaved sheep, w...

Having commented on the capital investment - mainly European Union money - on the Via de la Plata, it was good this morning to note the prog...

The environment as usual seems to have come well down the list of hottest election issues. And since climate change has gone completely out...

From Salamanca, we caught a train to Lisbon on Saturday last; and after two happy days there, we are now back home again - via another five ...

On Friday afternoon, we sat down here and celebrated the conclusion of our planned walk from Seville. The Plaza Mayor in Salamanca is said ...

It´s 1,000 kms. from Seville to Santiago, and we are now 493 kms. along the line.  But tomorrow we bring this year´s walking to an end, on a...

Since I was last able to sit at a computer, we have met a couple more "nationalities" - a Swede, and a man from Cape Town.  The qu...

Three weeks in, and we have yet to come across another person from England, apart from out nice host and hostess at Alconétar Reservoir, Ste...

A writer, having contemplated a blank piece of paper for many hours, has to be forgiven for throwing in the towel.  Last night I listened t...

Today´s walk was a bit of a holiday within a holiday: first, it was only 14kms., and secondly our rucksacks were carried for us - the kind c...

The weather has been more settled today: we have put our macs away. Coming North from Cáceres, the countryside has changed. We find hardly...

Not in accordance with our (revised) plan, we are spending two nights in Cáceres - which turns out to be well worth it! A place the size of...

The two of us set off this morning to walk to Alcuescar, 21kms. North of where we stayed last night. We were aiming for the splendidly-named...

We have now reached the Northernmost village in Badajoz, 237km. from our starting point in Seville. Tomorrow we shall be halfway to Salaman...

This is the Roman bridge over the Rio Guadiana at Mérida - 800 metres long. We crossed it at the end of today's easy 16km walk from Tor...