Travel Tips

[steepholm]

I have been, and will continue yet to be for a few days, a truant to blogging. But having spent a very enjoyable morning touring the South Downs with my brother and mother, ending with a pint at the Devil's Dyke (from which the Hog's Back is very visible, I now learn), I want to share a new game to enhance any journey through idyllic countryside.

There are only two rules:

1) whenever you see a particularly beautiful view, say loudly (preferably so that you can be overheard by other sightseers), "And this is where they're going to site the new Tesco Extra?";

2) whenever you see an ancient windmill, sigh theatrically and exclaim, "Bloody windfarms!"

Comments

[calimac.livejournal.com]

Tolkien's version was to react to any building erected since his previous visit by saying, "There goes the last of England's arable!"

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

That's lovely - and typical of his humour.

[veronica-milvus.livejournal.com]

I know that spot very well, we take FIL there sometimes. There's a brass plaque at the view point which states that you can see our village in the Chilterns from there. You would need a good imagination.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Because my mother can't totter very far, we didn't even wander to the viewpoint, but stuck firmly to within three feet of the pub. But that does seem optimistic.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Lovely part of the world, that. I've walked the South Downs way a number of times.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

I don't know the area well, but I always feel at home in a chalkscape.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Im a kalkin- a daughter of the chalk, bought up on the North Downs, so I certainly do :o)