The British Isles represents for me one of the most remarkable and varied collection of landscapes and ecologies
manifest in one land anywhere in the world. I dont think I could ever tire of it. And, sadly, I doubt I shall ever be
able to explore anymore than a fraction of what I want in one lifetime. There is so much.
Some parts however I do keep returning to and these are:
Golden Valley
and River Boyd, South Gloucestershire & Upton Cheyney.
Brean Down Headland
Somerset Coast.
Wye Valley
Tintern Abbey, edge of Forest of Dean, Offas Dyke, The Forest of Dean, and the Welsh Border
Avebury Cycle
West Kennet Long Barrow; Silbury Hill; The Sanctuary; Avebury Stone Circle;
The Avenue; The Ridegway.
Jurassic Coast
Dorset and including Lulworth Cove, Durdle Door, Man o' War Rocks and the villages thereabouts.
I have explored many parts ofd England and Wales and Cornwall, but much remains on my list of destinations. For me there
are not just places to see out of curioisity, but a mission or a pilgrimage to engage in a deeper communication with my homeland,
as it is says in the Masonic advice: "ever remember that nature has implanted in your breast a sacred and
indisoluble attachment towards that land whence you derived your birth and infant nurture"
So where next:?
Well aside form maintianing my relationship with all of the above, as of 2010 I plan to slowly
start a series of expeditions to some of the islands of Britain. On my list of firm favourites initially are:
1. Lundy.
2. Orkneys & Skara Brae.
3. Steep Holm.
4. Scilly Isles.
Ragarding inland landscapes:
1. I need to re-explore Cornwall and its coast.
2. Also plan to start to discover Exmoor.
3. Wales is worthy of some serious study.
4. Lake District.
Of course I shall keep returning to Dartmoor for which I have a long abiding affection
and have been there countless times since 1990.
