It took us ages to find the starting point of this walk. The book said to park at Snelsmore Common and I found the postcode for it and put in Tom-Tom. But then it asked me the street etc and only gave me one choice. I thought I'll just go for that one choice then and was sure that there will be some signs to the Snelsmore Common near by. Well, I was wrong. Luckily I have a clever phone and eventually it took me to the right place. As you can see, the spring is truely here. Anemones are very special for me cause in Estonia they are one of the first spring flowers in forest. (The other type that I love more, doesn't grow in England) Every time we went to our cottage for weekend, on our way back home we stopped to pick these flowers. I had a great childhood!
So we started from Snelsmore common. I was a bit scared when we saw all these cows, but luckily they were in the distance. I had to hold back Maurice from running to them. He really loves all animals. Apart of frogs. I don't know why, but suddenly he has expressed his fear for frogs. And we haven't even seen any:) This common was the only place where I wasn't quite suure whcih way to go. I didn't have a proper map, just a discription in the book. And when they tell you turn left when you see the tree and there are hundreds of trees and turns, then it doesn't make sense. We had walked here couple of years ago, so I vaguely remembered and I was right. As soon as we got out of this common, we didn't have any problems.
Our path went downhill for a while, eventually reaching to Bagnor and river Lambourn. As it was quite hot, Summer was really happy to spend some time in the water. It was so clear that we could see fishes swimming, hiding in the grass near the shore. There is a very nice theatre, converted from the watermill. It used to be a paper mill and then later cornmill.I'll post a picture of it below. In Bagnor you have to decide, wether to go for a shorter or longer version. We opted for latter. It takes you over the fields, along the river and eventually back to Bagnor. It's a three mile hoop.
From Bagnor the path goes up hill until reaching Donnington castle. We had to cross A34. Maurice was asking me about motorway when we drove and I was trying to explain him about A and B roads. So now he had a very close look at the A road.
Finally we reached Donnington Castle. It was originally built in 1086 and then "built anew" in 1386. So quite a piece of history there. During the Civil War the Donnington Castle was a vital stronghold. I know I may sound really stupid, but I didn't even know that Englad had a Civil War. I knew America had one, but not England. So my walks complete my overall knowledge too. I should really study Englands History and read about it.
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The mill -theater.
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It took us ages to find the starting point of this walk. The book said to park at Snelsmore Common and I found the postcode for it and put in Tom-Tom. But then it asked me the street etc and only gave me one choice. I thought I'll just go for that one choice then and was sure that there will be some signs to the Snelsmore Common near by. Well, I was wrong. Luckily I have a clever phone and eventually it took me to the right place. As you can see, the spring is truely here. Anemones are very special for me cause in Estonia they are one of the first spring flowers in forest. (The other type that I love more, doesn't grow in England) Every time we went to our cottage for weekend, on our way back home we stopped to pick these flowers. I had a great childhood!
So we started from Snelsmore common. I was a bit scared when we saw all these cows, but luckily they were in the distance. I had to hold back Maurice from running to them. He really loves all animals. Apart of frogs. I don't know why, but suddenly he has expressed his fear for frogs. And we haven't even seen any:) This common was the only place where I wasn't quite suure whcih way to go. I didn't have a proper map, just a discription in the book. And when they tell you turn left when you see the tree and there are hundreds of trees and turns, then it doesn't make sense. We had walked here couple of years ago, so I vaguely remembered and I was right. As soon as we got out of this common, we didn't have any problems. 
Our path went downhill for a while, eventually reaching to Bagnor and river Lambourn. As it was quite hot, Summer was really happy to spend some time in the water. It was so clear that we could see fishes swimming, hiding in the grass near the shore. There is a very nice theatre, converted from the watermill. It used to be a paper mill and then later cornmill.I'll post a picture of it below. In Bagnor you have to decide, wether to go for a shorter or longer version. We opted for latter. It takes you over the fields, along the river and eventually back to Bagnor. It's a three mile hoop.
From Bagnor the path goes up hill until reaching Donnington castle. We had to cross A34. Maurice was asking me about motorway when we drove and I was trying to explain him about A and B roads. So now he had a very close look at the A road.
Finally we reached Donnington Castle. It was originally built in 1086 and then "built anew" in 1386. So quite a piece of history there. During the Civil War the Donnington Castle was a vital stronghold. I know I may sound really stupid, but I didn't even know that Englad had a Civil War. I knew America had one, but not England. So my walks complete my overall knowledge too. I should really study Englands History and read about it.
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