The Goring Challenge

One of the things I love to do is go walking. A few years back I bought an excellent book called Walking In The Thames Valley (ISBN 978-1-85284-570-4) which enabled me to pick out local walks very quickly without having to first study maps and conjure them myself.

Since then I have done many of the 25 walks getting to know the area and its outstanding beauty. Today I did the Goring Challenge which is a 16mile walk across some the delightful countryside of South Oxforshire, finally ending with a stretch along the Thames Path back to Goring and Streatley where I saw this lovely field of daises backed in the distance by one of Brunel's railway bridges across the river on the Reading to Oxford railway line.