Standing outside Bilbao Airport waiting for the airport bus, it suddenly dawned on us that nobody else was making the decisions anymore. There wasn’t a parent checking the timetable, choosing the right stop or making sure we’d packed everything. If we got on the wrong bus, we’d be the ones dealing with it. If we […]
Category: Travel
Trip Snapshot Dates: 25–31 May 2025 Travellers: Gordon, Nicole, Hamish (15), Euan (13), Fergus (10) Distance driven: ≈ 520 km loop Ideal ages: 8 + Total spend (May 2025): ≈ £2 950 ex-flights (see cost box) Highlights Ionian-blue swimming at Jalë ▪ Rafting Europe’s last wild river ▪ Ottoman rooftops of Berat ▪ Butrint’s Roman […]
Earlier this year we walked The Winterbourne Walk from the Ver Valley Society. It heads out from Redbourn towards Flamsted and comes back past the Herts Showground and follows part of the Chiltern Way. It’s quite a long walk – about 8 miles – and took about 4 hours. The start and end section of […]
Today, we walked another trail from the Ver Valley Society. It was a shorter one and part of it is from the Ver Valley Walk 7 and the green ring. You go through lots of beautiful scenery and it is good for a couple of hours or so. It’s easy to do and isn’t hard […]
The “Discover the River Ver Project” by the Ver Valley Society created a series of short walks following the River Ver and exploring the surrounding countryside. As a family, we have been walking the routes, creating downloadable GPS maps, and I’ve been writing up the walks from a child’s point of view. We’ve now grouped […]
Recently, we decided to go on a walk with our friends. We chose this walk from the Ver Valley Society. It’s perfect for a warm day because there’s lots of shade and a few bits where you can go for a paddle. To make the walk more interesting my dad did some research around chalk […]
Yesterday we went on another walk. We’ve used it a few times and it’s got some interesting things you can see along the way. We started off at the St Michaels Memorial Hall on Branch Road in St Michael’s Village. From there, we towards Batchwood via Downedge. When you cross Batchwood Drive there is an […]
Today we went out on another walk from the Walks section of The Ver Valley Society website – this time Walk 7: The Watermeadow Walk. The link to the leaflet for this walk is here. Before I talk about the walk and share photos I’m going to highlight at the start that we picked this […]
A few weeks ago we took a walk along Ver Valley Walk 5, which we found in the Walks section of The Ver Valley Society website. This link to the leaflet for this specific walk is here. It’s a very good way to use your time and to see all the beautiful scenery throughout the […]
