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Boxing day barrel rolling at Grantchester

After yesterdays gluttony we just had to have a semi decent walk today, for some reason I wanted to walk to Grantchester, in hindsight because I had seen the signs for the annual barrel rolling in Grantchester last week!.

However, I had completely forgotten about that when we set off! I was also wanting to try the new start/end route for my Scholars Way Cambridge/Oxford walk using the permissive paths from Grantchester to Barton.

This is the route we took. 13.5miles in lovely winter sunshine.

Boxing day walk & barrel rolling in Grantchester

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And here is a great shot of an ace barrel roller:-

Top notch barrel roller
Top notch barrel roller

Winter Solstice walk

Today was the shortest day and we celebrated it in gorgeous sunshine with a walk by the Cambridge Rambling Club A team, ably led by  Larry & Margaret . A decent turn out of 14 hikers did the over 14 mile circular walk from Balsham via Brinkley.

Cambridge Ramblers – Balsham WAlk

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A surprising hilly walk with a total climb of 1700ft in the day!  across quite a few freshly ploughed fields. The walk was enhanced with mulled wine and minced pies 🙂

More stats 🙂

Elevation and speed against distance walked
Elevation and speed against distance walked