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Camping With Coops for His 40th

Long gone are the days of “back-pack camping”, when you go camping with whatever you could carry on your back – away from civilisation, miles from the nearest road, deep in the Siberian forests or the North-West Territories.
Things were simple those days: a tent, box of matches, two saucepans, spoon, knife, aluminum mug, sleeping bag [...]

Paddling the Basingstoke Canal

We headed to Odiham, near to Fleet, Hampshire to explore the Basingstoke Canal. Ironically, the canal doesn’t quite reach Basingstoke!

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First, we headed up along the old tow-path from the car park next to the canal in Odinham.  It winds its way to North Warnborough. The route was a bit noisy, what [...]