Distance - 3 Miles
Geocaches - 3 out of 4
Time to set my walking goals for 2015. One of them is to discover more of my City of birth - Birmingham. I have already created The Brummie Ring and I intend to discover more of it's boroughs within the City Limits.
Having a spare day over Xmas, I might as well start a touch early. I can also combine it with another list ticking exercise - Birmingham's Top 10 Pubs. A double score for today's entertainment.
In honour of the fact that the only book my 16 year old son has read is (half of) the Hobbit by JRR Tolkien, we head out to the land that provided the inspiration for Middle Earth - Moseley Bog.
Sonia wants to bring the dog. I am worried if its too Boggy, we might not be allowed into the pub. I am outvoted 2-1.
Park up at a place that takes Sonia all of 2 seconds to use her anagram skills.
She didn't waste those skills on The Millstream Way |
Off into the Frozen Winterland |
Dog gets to go some places |
Swanhurst Park |
A short bit of road walking leads us to Moseley Bog. It's quite a place, an oasis of countryside completely surrounded by the City. I also didn't need to worry about the Bog, as the terrain is navigated via duckboards. Which make a fine place to hide a cache.
Moseley Bog across the Frozen Wastelands |
Onto the Duckboards |
And into Middle Earth |
Quite an experience and over far to quickly. We emerge in a council estate before getting to the old part of Sarehole and finding Tolkien's childhood home from 1896.
We demand a Blue Plaque |
The Path Back to Sarehole |
Just before Rush Hour |
Sonia is Googling "Dog Friendly Moseley Pubs that do Food" |
For the drive home, we put on Radio 6. The DJ starts up a phone in for people "that have visited places that are used in works of literary fiction".
You can guess what we did?
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