Riou & Laura Baxter's walk.

An Elite cadre of 12 walkers met on the Green at 9.15 , and drove to Cerne Abbas Giants car park, where we spent a period of time admiring the manlihood of The Giant. Once we had all regained our composure, we set off up onto the ridgeway towards Minterne Parva and UpCerne walking at a steady pace in glorious weather. The team photo was taken overlooking the beautiful Upcerne estate, which was where we had our deserved stop and coffee break rest.

At this junction the nimble and athletic Tony  left us to walk back to the car park, with the remaining eleven athletes continuing on our walk out of Upcerne and up onto the ridgeway, with glorious views into both the Cerne and Sydling valleys, and the Red Kite nos: 4163B who continued to follow us, once Sue S had put her binoculars away!! From here we dropped down a steep slope for 1 mile, and back into the car park, to collect our vehicles and drive the short distance to The Royal Oak in Cerne Abbas, for much needed food and drink after our 6.4 mile beautiful walk.

The pub looked after us all extremely well with great food and drink, all enlivened by Laura B and Mike B discussing the various challenges and merits of chip sharing, the Cinnamon ice cream was an absolute joy!!!

Thank you to all the walking team for a lovely special day  in the glorious Dorset countryside. 

Love Riou & Laura.xo.