๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Now, where shall we go today? I know! All round the British Isles 2000 miles in 12 days and here is stage 1!!
Operation Eagle ๐ฆ is St LFH rediscovering Britain by rural roads to encourage YOU to define your soil!!
My 2nd pic is the landscape facing away from Watership down with its ancient endless warrens ๐๐๐
Gradually I approach the Ridgeway, England's most ancient thoroughfare dating way pre Roman and here you see the timeless and magnificent Wayland's Smithy, a long barrow beset by beech, Wayland being the Saxon forge god ๐จ
Here the coronation of the Queen of Celtica ๐๐ก
I needed a beer! Then watermelon ๐ and white horses nu.erous on the hills of Wiltshire and I spied the giant if Cern Abbas with his pennant raised ๐ดโโ ๏ธ
I played alto sax on an ancient Dorset hillfort and dropped into a land of good and occasionally thatched pubs, my forever pub haven, roses climbing, bats flitting!! And up early for a paddle at Charmouth 6.30am, having kipped in a maize field!!
Awesome wildness! ๐พ๐พ
I pass into Dartmoor, a land of real white horses, churches on hill crags, celtic waterways and find a waterfall and a devil's cauldron!ย
On to Bodmin Moor for the Jamaica Inn I first visited age 5 nicely poured Smugglers Haunt chocolate porter, rich, warming, seductive with a pasty and then a few hamlets and a high hill before awaying to South Wales ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ
The Clovelly inn with Dartmoor Jail ale was lovelly ๐ต
Good pickings! Hear the sax solos on 12 assorted British hills daily here ๐ท๐๐ผ
https://www.houseoffeckbooks.com/operation-eagle-around-gb-in-12-days/
Cheers ๐ป for your beers, each gets me a mile or 30 further on my epic! If you would know Britain ๐ฌ๐ง get out and find her!! Buy St LFH a few miles below ๐ฅ๐๐๐ผ