Ah, the stereotypical English countryside, how I love walking through it! What do I love about it? churches and graveyards, livestock, fun signage, postboxes, and bonus points for a pub stop at the end. Ramble with me? The first stop was a church, of which there were three on this walk, but this particular grave marker caught my eye:
ISO 200 f/2.7 1/25sec 4.3mm
Then we kept going and came to a gate. An aside to my fellow Americans, you can walk through private property such as fields here, there are a set of expectations, but it is a completely different system than the US. So, yes we went through the gate and closed it behind us. What is it with cows? I feel like I have the following conversation every time I walk through a pasture:
~Yes, hi, just passing through.
~Because this is where the path is.
~Yes, really, it’s marked.
~No, I do not have any snacks.
ISO 100 f/5.6 1/200sec 17.8mm
And just to reinforce the whole English weather stereotype, I’ll tell you that the weather was threatening rain so I took the photos in this post with a small point and shoot and my iPhone:
And yes, I did finish up at the pub with a pint. Cheers and Sláinte!
Added to Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, Countryside and/or Small Towns.
Cheers!
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A lovely walk and a great way to end 🙂
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I agree 🙂
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Cheers 🙂
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I like your stereotyped images 😀
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Thanks!
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Nothing beats a day in the countryside. Love the postbox.
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I agree; I’m also pretty hooked on photographing postboxes.
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We have some great ones in the Peak District along with some lovely old phone boxes.
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Yes, the Peak District is just such a beautiful landscape.
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I envy your right to roam. Here, you encounter a lot of “POSTED: No Trespassing” signs.
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Yes, it is something that we really enjoy, having never really lived anywhere where that was the expectation.
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Hah! “No, I do not have any snacks.” An answer to that might well be “Mooo?” 🐮
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Or, get out of my pasture then 🙂
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How very British of you Amy LOL! How interesting that you’re allowed to pass through private property – thinking that would not fly here at all. Fun images of a fun day.
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Yes, parks and walking paths are just very different over here. I like the system here but really the US is just so different in terms of land and how it’s managed that I don’t really see it working there. And I don’t mean that as criticism, it’s just different.
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Thank you for the pleasant walk in a beautiful small town, Picturesque! Love these photos captures! Thank you, Amy for joining in. ：）
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Thanks Amy 🙂
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It’s always a dilemma to shoot in the rain! I always bring my cell phone instead of my Fuji. I had no idea you could walk through pastures in the UK–when a path cuts through them! I love the cows here. You really captured their curiosity.
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Yes, my point and shoot is as much as I am willing to risk in the rain. Yes, rules concerning land use here are very different. To my way of thinking it has a lot to do with the amount of it that there is, in the US there is more so you have the option of thinking of private property rules in a different way.
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Excellent pictures. And I really love the cows.
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Yes, they have real personality 🙂
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I’ll gladly ramble with you! Lovely cows – and interesting conversation…We have the same system in Sweden. You are free to go wherever you want. I love that. You are also allowed to put up a tent for one night.
Thank you for the tour!
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Yes, having rambled through many of your posts, I would love to come walking in your part of the world.
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💚
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Ah the fabulous British PUBLIC footpath systems, glad you’re enjoying them, and with a visit to a pub too – good stuff.
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Yes, it’s a nice system and I have certainly taken advantage of it.
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Love your photos – takes me back to the two years we lived in the UK. Our house backed on one of those fields (though a grain field) and it had a path running from one corner to the other corner, which the farmer mowed down now and then so people could walk on it. From there we would ‘ramble’ down a lane, over a stile, into an open park area, etc, etc. We could walk to the next town that way, if we wanted to!
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Thanks very much. I really enjoy walking through fields that have a path through them, something I will miss when we eventually leave.
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