Our Second Walk

Red Lion Pub Garsington -> Nuneham Courtenay (3.2 miles)

The weather forecast predicted that Saturday 24th April would be another hot, sunny day so we set off nice and early for our second walk. We arrived at the Red Lion and expected to get started straight away but unfortunately the directions were really vague and it took us a good 5 minutes to find the 'metal post' soon after the pub! (Maybe distances in yards or metres would be easier to follow, whereas terms like 'soon' and 'in a while' are really difficult to judge).



Anyway we finally got started and made our way out of the village towards Toot Baldon. The whole walk can best be described as a procession of fields - not unpleasant but lacking in any wow factor. The big bonus for us was that it was a lot less hilly than the last walk. Directions in the book continued to be quite sketchy and we found we were often using the OS map provided to check we were on the right track.



The directions in the book told us we crossed over two culverts - I later discovered culverts are 'drains or channels passing under roads' after I looked it up in a dictionary when I got home! We also passed another huge electricity pylon.... maybe there is one on every walk!



Toot Baldon was lovely and peaceful and we stopped for a while near The Mole Inn http://moleinntootbaldon.co.uk/ to breathe in the fresh country air. The final section of the walk involved walking through more fields and closely following more hedges until we finally reached the road at Nuneham Courtenay. The whole walk took about an hour and a half and, although it was not as picturesque as the first walk, we both agreed it was a lovely, relaxing way to start the day!