Part 4 – from October to December Welcome to the fourth and final part of Oldbury Tours’ year in photographs. As Autumn grew into Winter people started getting back in touch more regularly about tours, a good omen hopefully for 2022. My autumn started in much the same vein as the summer, researching new sites… Read more »
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Part 3 – from July to September Welcome to the third part of Oldbury Tours’ year in photographs, a pictorial journey through the months of a second COVID struck year. Unsurprisingly the summer months are usually our busiest; tourists fly in from all over the world to enjoy the spectacular landscapes and countless historic and… Read more »
Part 2 – from April to June Welcome to the second part of Oldbury Tours’ year in photographs, a pictorial journey through the months of a second COVID struck year. With the Winter of 2020 -21 over we now move into Spring. There was some optimism as the colour returned to Wiltshire. My walks got… Read more »
Part 1 – from January to March It’s a bit late but…Happy New Year from Oldbury Tours!! Like everyone else, we at Oldbury Tours hope that 2022 will bring us all back to a life we can recognise as normal. I hardly need to say that last year was a strange and difficult one. The… Read more »
A walk to Stonehenge through one of the richest archaeological landscapes in the UK. Part III – The final journey. From Durrington Walls to Stonehenge. This is part three of a personal pilgrimage from my house in Calne, Wiltshire to Stonehenge for the Stonehenge winter solstice. I am walking the 28 mile route across central… Read more »
A walk to Stonehenge through one of the richest archaeological landscapes in the UK. Part II – From Henge to Henge, Marden to Durrington Walls, Wiltshire This is part two of a personal pilgrimage from my house in Calne, Wiltshire to Stonehenge for the winter solstice. I am walking the 28 mile route across central… Read more »
A walk to Stonehenge through one of the richest archaeological landscapes in the UK. Part I – from home to lunch in the village of Marden, Wiltshire. This is a description of a journey, I could even say a pilgrimage, that I have wanted to make for many years. The journey will take me and… Read more »
Just before the UK went into lock-down, amid all the worries for what the future held, the sun came up on another day. Because of the terrible Covid-19 virus hundreds of people were dying in Italy and Spain and across the globe; doctors and nurses were frantically, desperately, trying to save lives in stifling hospitals… Read more »
Travelling the world with local guides. I have learned through my own experiences that hiring a knowledgeable local guide greatly enhances the enjoyment of a tour. A local guide will want to share his love for the subject whether that is simply their local area or something to be found within it. It is our… Read more »
Stonehenge stone raising. When I saw that English Heritage were going to experiment with raising a stone at Stonehenge it was something I was very keen to witness if not participate in. Perhaps unexpectedly the event in March 2018 was billed not so much as a study of the processes required for erecting the stone… Read more »