I wasn't able to go to Peter's walk in Windsor Great Park but Peter has supplied some photos and written the entry for the scrapbook himself. This is the first walk that Peter has led for us, and it went very smoothly by all accounts.
On Sunday 12th May 18 people enjoyed some of the glories that is Windsor Great Park. This was a joint walk with the Windsor group, but only one of their members was able to join us, and she has to leave us after about an hour as she had chores to do at home! Two of our group were potential new members, and one from another group.
The day started out sunny but quite cool. Fortunately the threatened rain held off until after we had finished the walk, although a few spots were felt while we were sitting in the pub.
We started our walk going up Queen Anne's ride, at the top of which we met a group of Irish terrier breeders who were also walking around the park.
Pausing to let them get ahead (and so we didn't get tangled up in their leads!) we stopped for our first drinks stop with our initial sight of the copper horse, a view of the rear of the Royal Lodge (which is now the official residence of Prince Andrew) and a very interested herd of cattle.
Passing the Ox Pond we then headed off to walk round Smiths Lawn where the Guards polo club is based. It's not every walk where the walkers get the opportunity to watch a polo match in progress!
Completing our circle of the lawn we passed the obelisk (George II's tribute to his son the Duke of Cumberland's victory at Culloden) and the valley gardens before stopping for lunch by the Cow Pond.
The final leg of our walk took us to the copper horse. Having enjoyed the glorious views of the castle and parts of London we then set off down the Long Walk towards Windsor.
Five of our party left the walk at this point and headed back to their cars. The remaining 12 of us headed to the Windsor Castle pub for a drink before returning along Kings Road to our cars.
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