Welcome to the first travel blog post of 2022. Today, Monday 17th January 2022, I had a walk around the Brizlincote Nature Walk, a circular walking route in the Brizlincote valley in Burton on Trent. The nature trail was created in 2018, although most of the paths already existed before then. Information boards and signposts … Continue reading 2022 Travels – Brizlincote Nature Walk
Happy New Year to all readers of the blog, new and old. 2021 was a fairly good year for the blog, although restrictions caused by that pandemic meant that I wasn't able to get on a train until mid-April, when I went to Thurgarton in Nottinghamshire. Thurgarton station, in the middle of nowhere. 2022 promises … Continue reading Blog Update – Happy New Year!
The autumn began with another week off work, but only two trips during that time (I was suffering from a cold). October 2021 The first trip was a double-header to North Derbyshire to visit Whitwell and Creswell on a nice sunny day. They are former mining villages, and Creswell has a "model village"; a housing … Continue reading Travel Review of the Year 2021 – Part Four (October to December)
The long, hot summer of 2021 proved to be too long and too hot to travel for me. I only went to one place in July, but normal service resumed in August. July 2021 Oaks Wood, a nature walk in Burton on Trent, was the venue for the only post in July. The trail runs … Continue reading Travel Review of the Year 2021 – Part Three (July to September)
The lifting of Covid-19 restrictions in the UK in April meant that I was able to go out on the trains again, and I wasted no time in getting back out there and ticking off more stations on the East Midlands Ranger Area list. April 2021 Before I headed back down the historic staircase at … Continue reading Travel Review of the Year 2021 – Part Two (April to June)
The year 2021 began the same way that 2020 ended, with a national lockdown due to the surge in virus cases over the winter period. That meant that I couldn't go anywhere further than Burton on Trent, but that didn't mean the blog stopped. I had a look back at some bygone travels, and also … Continue reading Travel Review of the Year 2021 – Part One (January to March)
The year 2021 on this blog was meant to finish on 29th November with a trip to Melton Mowbray, but a heavy dusting of snow in the Midlands put a premature end to this year's blog adventures. Luckily I had something else up my sleeve, my now-annual trip to Cromford which I took at the … Continue reading 2021 Travels – Cromford
The weather is getting colder, seeing as it's nearly winter. It's still sunny at times, though, and it was on Wednesday 17th November 2021 when I travelled through four counties to Bottesford, in the north east corner of Leicestershire. As usual, because I live there, the trip started in Burton on Trent. I changed trains … Continue reading 2021 Travels – Bottesford, Leicestershire
Last year, when I visited Longton near Stoke-on-Trent, my train passed through Stone railway station. At the time, I said that I would quite like to visit Stone, and so I made it happen on Friday 12th November 2021. I had originally planned to visit Stone at the end of July this year, but a … Continue reading 2021 Travels – Stone, Staffordshire
On a grey and windy autumn day, 28th October 2021, I ticked off station number 58 of 76 on the East Midlands Ranger Area list when I travelled to Langley Mill in Derbyshire. As usual, I caught the train from Burton on Trent, then changed at Nottingham. The bulk of my travels have been with … Continue reading 2021 Travels – Langley Mill & Eastwood
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