Living in London

Today we took our first ramble. In England, people who like to take long walks through the countryside (most of which is publicly accessible unlike the US) are called ramblers. We left the house at 8:15 am, and via the Tube and train, travelled northwest to Berkhamsted. When we alighted at the train station there, we wandered around the local area and found both some locks in the canal where the little houseboats move back and forth, as well as the ruins of a castle dating from the time of the Norman Conquest and ruined since about 1245.

We used our guidebook, and our compass, to travel up and down the picturesque English hills and fields, following hedgerows, and forest edges, and walking trails, in a large 6.5 mile loop. We encountered few other ramblers, but saw a herd of deer running across a golf course, shared a pasture with many cows and sheep grazing in the fields we crossed, and of course, rabbits! (Just kidding about the rabbits.) Along the way we learned what the ramblers version of a stile is (as in "turnstile" without the "turn"), complete with a dog door. We walked back through the door here at 4 Walnut Court at 3:15 pm and are happy to finally sit down!

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-LmG