Restful weekend in a forest

Sherwood Forest, legendary home of Robin Hood; now the actual home of ‘Center Parcs’ forest village.  For a long weekend break, Firday to Monday, and ideal spot to laze about.  My wife, daughter and grandaughter  plus myself have just arrived back home.  Everyone seems to have had a good time, some enjoying the water sports, some enjoying the food (or, in my small grandaughters case) the feeding habits of the semi-tame wildlife - Mallard ducks, grey squirrels, furry bundles of rabbit, a heron and numerous other birds.  She was facinated when the animals and birds started to come to the patio doors on the villa and, in the case of the ducks, ‘knock’ (tap the window with their beaks) whenever they saw movement and wanted to scroung more scraps.

I managed three 15 mile walks through the forest tracks and also completely read (for the nth time) the alas late Colin Fletcher’s account of his walk through the Grand Canyon - “The man who walked through time”.

Awaiting when I arrived home was a brand new copy of the book, sourced through www.abebooks.co.uk  this despite the book having  been out of print since the 1990’s.  For hard-to-come-by books this is an excellent site and very simple to use.  The prices are excellent too and books can be sourced worldwide.

The book has always been an inspirational work to me, since my first reading of it when the author originally  released it!  So much so that I think this latest book is copy number 6 that I have ‘read to death’.