Our Boxing Days right here have adopted an analogous sample for just a few years now, at the least in these years the place we’ve stayed at house quite than visiting household elsewhere. We rise up, have breakfast after which get able to exit for a stroll. We stroll from our house to a mid-day meal with my sister and different members of the family, lately at a pub near the place she lives. Then a leisurely wander to her home for tea. And quite later going house, although to date we’ve not needed to stroll again.
Partly we stroll as a result of there may be little if any public transport on Boxing Day. We might cycle, however the roads are extra quite extra harmful than traditional because of motorists with the next than traditional alcohol degree, and in addition as a result of I wish to have a glass or two myself with my boxing day lunch, although it will be straightforward to do the journey virtually solely off-road. Maybe this 12 months we are going to cycle, the climate forecast isn’t too unhealthy.
The stroll is at the least 5 miles. Up to now we used to typically take longer and typically hillier routes to present us somewhat extra train. Now we typically cease on the best way for espresso at one of many few cafés which can be open. The stroll helps to rise up an urge for food for one more giant meal after our minor over-indulgences yesterday. Years in the past we frequently went out for one more stroll earlier than our late afternoon tea, however others within the household are actually too outdated for this.
In fact I take a digital camera with me, and take photos on the best way, in addition to typically some household photos in the course of the meal and after, although these I seldom share outdoors the household as they’ve little or no curiosity for others.
So earlier I spent a while searching for my photos from boxing day walks in earlier years to publish right now. These photos come from a quite longer journey on twenty sixth December 2005, after we cycled just a few miles additional alongside the River Thames than mandatory earlier than turning again for our lunch.
I first posted some photos from this stroll on My London Diary in 2005. Though that publish describes it as a stroll, from the distances concerned and the EXIF instances we will need to have been on our bikes. And had a really late lunch.
This can be a barely totally different assortment; all photos have been made with a Nikon D200 DX format DSLR.
Tags: bike experience, Boveney, Outdated Windsor, peter Marshall, experience, River Thames, St Mary Magdalene, Thames, Thames Path, Stroll, Windsor, Wraysbury
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