Country Walk #1 - Watton at Stone

Chris bought me the best book a few weeks ago. It's called Walks in the Country near London and has about 25 really, truly country walks. They all start at train stations, take you 6-12 miles around the country and deposit you back at a train station, so theoretically, the walks are perfect. However, if you do not know each particular hay field and tree clump like the back of your hand, this book may not be quite enough to make it all the way to your destination. We learned that the hard way. Apparently it was an incorrect assumption that the author's suggestion to get an Ordinance Survey map was merely a suggestion rather than a must-have. Now we know. We traveled for about 4 hours around this lovely place, walking literally through the middle of hay fields and many other kinds of fields that are unknown to me, and ended up about 100 yards from where we started, which was not, in fact, our goal. Lucky for us we knew our way back to the train station and made it before dark. Read Country Walk #2 for a better (read: not much better, but better) journey that nearly followed the book's suggested trail.

A couple of notes on the pictures. The first one reminds me of home, which is why I took it, and the second one was just funny. The third was a very beautiful area and the fourth was crazy Chris chasing the millions of rabbits.