Worcester Ramblers: Eastnor Park and Gospel Oak 23 April 2026

 This was my second walk as walk leader for Worcester Ramblers. 

We started at Swinyard car park promptly at 1000 (despite the parking ticket machine being faulty) and walked up past the Gullett Quarry to the Obelisk on the Eastnor estate. 

Continuing across the estate we passed the new addition, part of the Berlin wall! This was chosen as the coffee break

The walk then continued out to the railway tunnel to Ledbury entrance,  along the Ridgeway and back over the Malverns through News wood , passing the Pink cottage back to the car park (to be greeted by the sight of the car park machine being fixed....obviously the number of phone calls they got earlier in the morning forced them into action!). Some of us went to the Duke of York pub again for lunch

Total 6.8 miles

Railtrail Foregate Street to Pershore 18 April 2026

 I decided it was time to revisit the Cotswold line Rail Trails and offer it as a Saturday Walk to the Worcester Ramblers. The first leg would be a merging of the Foregate street to Parkway and Parkway to Pershore routes to form a Foregate street to Pershore route, as was originally done during the Malvern Walking Festival in 2023

A reccy in late February showed there was a diversion near Millhouse (Peopleton) as the wooden bridge was closed for 6 months to be repaired. Fortunately Worcestershire CC confirmed 3 days before the walk that the repairs were completed before Easter so the detour would not be needed

Four of us parked at Pershore station (actually in Pinvin! but beware, the GWR ticket machine on the platform only sells weekly Parking tickets for £20!!) We caught the train to Foregate street and met up with another 3 walkers.starting the walk at 0920

The route took us out of Worceter via the Country Park (coffee break)  to Lunch which was had at the lake near Peartrees  listening to the birdsong. The route then continued through Peopleton to Pershore station arriving at 1420, just in time for those who wanted to catch the train back to Worcester

11.8 miles

A day walking in Felixstowe 11 April 2026

 Having left Felixstowe in 1994 I decided that I would have an extra day while attending the Martlesham Microwave round table on the Sunday walking the area on Saturday

I  parked at the SeaVu hotel and was stunned at the hundreds of people moving swiftly up the Promonade. Investigation revealed it was the Felixstowe Park run!

I set off Northbound past the Pier and the Theatre which was pleasant with the wind behind me walking all the way to Bawdsey Ferry

Bawdsey Ferry

The Ferry!

I then decided to walk south to the other local ferry, which crosses the Deben to Harwich at Landguard point 2.5 hours 7 miles

While at Landguard point I got to see a container ship get brought in