Office xmas party last night we went to the White Hart, which is an improvement over Chicago’s. Did not an early start but have decided to walk to Tring over the hills and get the bus home.
The start was all up hill, through the village, up stablebridge then along the canal, up the hill to Wendover woods cafe where I am sat now typing this, eating fruit cake and coffee. Helen went for hot chocolate and carrot cake.
After the coffee stop we headed towards the ridgeway but got diverted by a possible Waxwing, we did a bit of trespassing to quickly get the the edge of the field but by the time we got there there was no sign of any bird!
That little foray diverted us from our planned route so we nipped through dancersend nature reserve then up the steep road called the Crong, to the top of the hill where we joined the ridgeway again. It would be all down hill from now on. The aim was to keep high for as long as possible so that we would end up going down the hill from high above Tring which we would enter via the Natural History museum. There we had some great views of both Tring and Yellowhammer.
Once in Tring we did a spot of shopping and a coffee before getting the number 500 bus back to Aston Clinton.