A spider, a fox and a deer.

No, those are not animal representatives for the three of us! They are in fact 3 of the new animals we can claim to have seen while walking around in Goring!

We started today with some good sandwiches for lunch from Pierreponts. It really is a nice little restaurant, which is continuously busy, probably because the food is great (if a little pricey). We got to sit outside on what was a warm, sunny day - and it really was appreciated by us, who have been cooped up in our house following the past few days of cold and rainy weather. It's amazing how a little sunshine makes everything so much happier and less gray!

Anyway, we enjoyed our lunch while watching a tree surgeon (as of course they are known), climb a tree with a mini chainsaw attached to his hip, and proceed in felling it. Thereafter, we set off on our walk.

Our path was towards the abandoned bunker we had seen the other day, but this time with Mickaela as re-inforcement should things turn nasty! We also tried to take a different side-road to link up to the path we wanted to end up on, although this proved to be less scenic than we expected. Nonetheless, we were surrounded by the greenery that is Goring. It is hard to explain, but it really is so green here! It always looks as if the colour settings and saturation on my camera are faulty, but i guess that's what all the rain does to the landscape!

We walked along the various trails through fields, farms and forest, with the Thames on our right. The paths were surprisingly busy today, but I guess that was to be expected with people enjoying being outdoors in this nice weather. We eventually made it to the bunker again, and this time called out a few times to try figure out if anyone was staying inside. Once we thought it was safe, we looked inside, but couldn't see much because it was really dark, so decided to jump up onto the flat roof instead!

conquering the bunker!

After a few photos we decided to carry on with the walk. It led us up steeper hills until we were quite high above the river, but after walking a fair distance further, decided to turn back once we had reached a huge open field amongst all the woodland - I guess that will serve as our marker for next time!

We stopped and got some ice-creams on the way back home. A fitting way to end a hot summer walk! Tomorrow we go to Reading!