http://www.obyto.co.uk Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:54:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://www.obyto.co.uk/walks/brean-down-somerset http://www.obyto.co.uk/walks/brean-down-somerset#comments Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:59:35 +0000 admin http://www.obyto.co.uk/wordpress/?p=235 To build a folly is a marvellous achievement, a bricks-and-mortar ‘I’m alright Jack, bugger you’ to the world. To construct a folly is to do so in the full knowledge of its obsolescence. These mortared whimsies didn’t come cheap, though, so imagine the shivers of pride that you, the indentured worker, would have felt on [...]]]> http://www.obyto.co.uk/walks/brean-down-somerset/feed 0 http://www.obyto.co.uk/walks/bridge-to-bridge-1 http://www.obyto.co.uk/walks/bridge-to-bridge-1#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:32:34 +0000 admin http://www.obyto.co.uk/wordpress/?p=229 The first of our bridge-to-bridge walks, offering gentility and birdlife. ]]> http://www.obyto.co.uk/walks/bridge-to-bridge-1/feed 0 http://www.obyto.co.uk/walks/burrington-combe http://www.obyto.co.uk/walks/burrington-combe#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:15:17 +0000 admin http://www.obyto.co.uk/wordpress/?p=240 What giddy daydreams of delight transport you when clomping up a stream in a pair of wellies. Slithery pebbles underfoot, burbling water crashing round your ankles STAMP STAMP STAMP. Onwards you go, with a stick, of course with a stick, hoping for a deep spot where the water clamps round your calf and forcefully suggests [...]]]> http://www.obyto.co.uk/walks/burrington-combe/feed 0 http://www.obyto.co.uk/walks/dungeness http://www.obyto.co.uk/walks/dungeness#comments Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:16:57 +0000 admin http://www.obyto.co.uk/wordpress/?p=244 It's got a vibe. An arthouse vibe. A birdhouse arthouse vibe. A birdhouse arthouse holocaust vibe. Man. ]]> http://www.obyto.co.uk/walks/dungeness/feed 0 http://www.obyto.co.uk/walks/epping-forest http://www.obyto.co.uk/walks/epping-forest#comments Sat, 03 Feb 2007 14:38:03 +0000 admin http://www.obyto.co.uk/wordpress/?p=231 Epping Forest contains more than enough for a day's exit from your usual weekend pursuits.]]> http://www.obyto.co.uk/walks/epping-forest/feed 0 http://www.obyto.co.uk/walks/inn-on-the-quay-spotted-cow-poole http://www.obyto.co.uk/walks/inn-on-the-quay-spotted-cow-poole#comments Thu, 06 May 2010 15:28:23 +0000 admin http://www.obyto.co.uk/?p=320 To Poole, then – just down the road from Sandbanks, the bewjewelled teardrop in the Bournemouth Bay. People spend millions in order to live there. The surrounding areas must be nice, too. Poole preconceptions: gentility-on-sea, abutting onto mossy, comforting estuarial waters. Hanging baskets outside Georgian terraces, gulls whickering overhead. Blue rinses, quiet tedium, the odd delicafe, [...]]]> http://www.obyto.co.uk/walks/inn-on-the-quay-spotted-cow-poole/feed 0 http://www.obyto.co.uk/walks/manor-house-castle-combe http://www.obyto.co.uk/walks/manor-house-castle-combe#comments Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:38:54 +0000 admin http://www.obyto.co.uk/wordpress/?p=201 At the head of a delightfully windy valley is this old mill-town, and its comfortable hotel designed for gin heroes. Lush. ]]> http://www.obyto.co.uk/walks/manor-house-castle-combe/feed 0 http://www.obyto.co.uk/walks/slimbridge http://www.obyto.co.uk/walks/slimbridge#comments Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:18:07 +0000 admin http://www.obyto.co.uk/wordpress/?p=246 It is currently April 2006, and the paranoiac rumblings of a bored nation have attached themselves to the prospect of avian flu. There are jokes aplenty about dead swans and kamikaze finches; the idea of being called a chicken takes on more deadly overtones. It is all, needless to say, patent nonsense. To show your [...]]]> http://www.obyto.co.uk/walks/slimbridge/feed 0 http://www.obyto.co.uk/walks/yorkshire-sculpture-park http://www.obyto.co.uk/walks/yorkshire-sculpture-park#comments Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:20:11 +0000 admin http://www.obyto.co.uk/wordpress/?p=248 This is chosen mainly for its location – the park is a short hop off the M1 just before Leeds, so can easily be incorporated into whatever northern jaunt you may be undertaking. It’s a large, Arcadian swedge of land, where you can graze on houmous flatbreads and gaze upon fluid, momentous blocks of metal [...]]]> http://www.obyto.co.uk/walks/yorkshire-sculpture-park/feed 0