Today’s 12‑mile hike included a small section of the White Horse Trail in Wiltshire.

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Looking towards Picquet Hill in Wiltshire earlier this morning.

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Today’s 20-mile hike included 7 miles through the restricted military training area on Salisbury Plain, with a walk through Imber - a village usually closed to the public.

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Up on the northern edge of Salisbury Plain earlier today - amazing spring blue skies, but that wind was absolutely biting on the hilltops.

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Looking south from near Tan Hill on the North Wessex Downs last weekend.

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Yesterday’s hike included a six mile stretch of the Wansdyke - an impressive earthwork of banks and ditches running through the North Wessex Downs.

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This stretch of the Ridgeway follows a route that’s been used since prehistoric times. It passes near the Avebury stone circle, a large Neolithic monument.

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Today’s hike took me out to Fyfield Down near Marlborough, Wiltshire - a stunning landscape and part of the Avebury World Heritage Site.

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A quiet stretch of the Wessex Ridgeway on the edge of Salisbury Plain - photo from last summer.

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It looked like spring today, but the windchill definitely reminded me it’s still winter.

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Covered 12 miles today on some amazing, easygoing trails.

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Exploring the countryside near Luccombe Springs, Wiltshire.

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Near Edington in Wiltshire there is a valley called Luccombe Bottom, home to the Blood Stone. According to legend, after the Battle of Edington in 878 AD, King Alfred’s army used this stone to behead captured Danish Vikings.

The photos show the valley and the track leading to the stone.

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In the early 1970s, I remember watching farm workers pour their hot tea into saucers to cool it down, and then drink from the saucer!

Yesterday’s walk along the Ridgeway near Avebury in Wiltshire took me to the Polisher Stone on Fyfield Down, a Neolithic polissoir used to sharpen axe heads thousands of years ago.

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One of the many warning signs on Salisbury Plain warning people not to leave the path.

Combe Bottom near Bratton Camp on the northern edge of Salisbury Plain.