One of the great things about England are the temperate climates for trekking around the country. Although trains are notoriously unreliable as a regular commuting vehicle with excuses like leaves on the track and snow preventing trains from running, they do tend to serve a pretty reasonable way of getting around on weekends. This bank holiday weekend, I headed out with a friend to Henley-on-Thames where we proceeded to take something like a 15km walk to Marlow.

The walk was pretty tame although we had plenty of local wildlife (below) often running around the fields we had to trek through.

Not everything was straightforward though with a number of paths not always very well signed unlike the path below.

Although a couple of the pubs we hoped to stop in for lunch weren’t open due to the bank holiday weekend, the blackberry bushes seemed to be in season and we tucked into quite a few along the way.

Arriving at Marlow, we sat down at the michelin-starred pub restaurant, the Hand and Flowers that I remember enjoying a meal at when I worked there some time ago.