Loving Where You Live

When you love travelling as much as we do, you spend most of the time between adventures looking forward to the next one. When you’re really starting to think in earnest about retiring and leaving for that once in a lifetime epic journey, that feeling intensifies.

So it’s good to have opportunities to remind yourself of the great things about where you live, and there are few things more typical of springtime in England than a walk through the bluebell woods.

We took a walk around our home village after work this week, our favourite local walk taking in farmland, the village churchyard and the rather splendid bluebell woods. This year’s bluebell carpet is a good one, the blue particularly deep, the sweet scent heady. The white wood anemone blooms have lingered long enough to overlap with the bluebells and the fresh green of the undergrowth, enhanced beautifully by the evening sunlight shafting through the trees.

Travelling is wonderful; enjoying your home surroundings brings peace.