Inspiration
Caches Found - All looked for
Ironbridge
At the end of August, I took the Times Newspaper with me to Greece. As I sat and read it in our prison apartment, there was a walk detailed at Ironbridge in the pull out weekend section, with a link to the details at the end of the article. Despite having a toilet that wouldn't accept paper, we did have wireless Internet - so I spent a week booklinking various free walk series and dreaming of cool autumn days to walk in Blighty.
Its taken me 2 months to get time to do it. Where do the weekends go?
This is the birthplace of industry and you could make a real day of it by getting passes to the museums. However, I don't have time and do have a labradoodle that probably wouldn't have been welcome. I just concentrate on a stunning walk, that was more woodland than river.
As its an working class town, there are working class vices. Just as I am about to cross the famous bridge, I spy a pub next door to an award winning pork pie shop. And more of that later.
Pies Left |
There was always going to be a shot of the bridge. |
Head East along the south side of the river. Have to nip off track for cache 2 and re-emerge from the bushes in front of startled Germans. Continue all along the this cycle way, passing the tile museum and ending up at a foot bridge on the way to the Tar Tunnel. I don't know what it is either.
Find a canal here and I can see a tramway up the woodlands that mean that I am in for my first climb of the day.
Uphill next to the tramway |
This sets the scene for all the return journey - getting high in woodland and having the occasional stunning views through the trees. Stop to arrange the camera from a footpath that is right next to the dining room of a hotel.
Power to the People |
Through Lloyds Coppice on the Rigeway path.
It's in the trees |
Finaly work my way through Dale Coppice and a dodgy council estate before taking the downhill path back to the carpark. I oass colebrookdale church and the YHA before dropping down a path called simply paradise. I wouldn't go that far, but it was better walking country than Greece.
This is why I want to stay at a YHA |
You all know what I ended up doing.... a two handed savoury chow down.
Get back home and check the Times. This weeks walk is in the Wyre Forest. I have it scheduled for the end of December.
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