by Keira Garrigan | May 3, 2023
We love these two fab little playgrounds in the Barton Park development, just off the A40. One is in front of you by the water as you enter and the other is next to the Barton Park primary school and both have a good mix of apparatus for all ages. The one next to the...
by Keira Garrigan | Mar 12, 2023
OK, hold tight, as this is mightily confusing. Shotover Park is the same as Shotover Country Park, right? Wrong! Totally different places! A little bit of history: Shotover Park, part of the larger Shotover Estate, has hosted Queen Elizabeth 1, is Grade 1 listed with...
by Keira Garrigan | Mar 12, 2023
This ancient woodland, once part of the Royal Forest of Bernwood, is a mixture of ash, field maple, aspen, hazel and oak along with blackthorn, hawthorn, spindle and a few old hornbeams – the perfect hiding place for deer and wild boar. And this is a splashy adventure...
by Keira Garrigan | Jan 4, 2023
Welcome to the dream where a fantastic walk can be combined with a café where the cake selection is big, the coffee good and strong and the views beautiful. This Wandering Kitchen at the Lake is at Queensford lake in Berinsfield; they also share the site with Oxford...
