With the start of a new year people often decide to make changes to their life. For some this change might be joining a gym, for others is might be joining an outdoor group like ours. To give new faces the chance to meet members of the group we try and arrange a social event [...]
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Day Walk in The Cotswolds
Posted in Trip Reports, tagged cotswolds, Hiking, hiking group, london adventure group, walking on January 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Trip Report – SantaLash
Posted in Trip Reports, tagged Charity, Fancy Dress, london, Pub Crawls, Santa, SantaLash on December 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Never heard of SantaLash? It’s an annual pub crawl that attracts over 1000 people, all dressed as Santa. There is an entry fee which helps raise money for a chosen charity. This year a few members of The London Adventure Group decided to take part.
The chosen charity this year was Street Kids Rescue which supports [...]
Trip Report – Weekend in Antwerp
Posted in Trip Reports, tagged Antwerp, Antwerpen, Chimay, Duvel, Rubens, Ypres on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We like to organise a European city break from time to time and Belgium is a country that appeals, both because it’s a short distance to drive from London and also there is the fact that they have good food and beer!
Our ferry from Dover left about 40 minutes late which added to the fact [...]
Trip Report – Glastonbury Guy Fawkes Carnival
Posted in Trip Reports, tagged bath, carnival, glastonbury, guy fawkes on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the South West of England they have their own special way of celebrating Guy Fawkes, by putting on amazing illuminated carnivals. One of the biggest of these is The Glastonbury & Chilkwell Carnival which took place this year on Saturday 15th November.
We left London that morning, arriving in time to check in to [...]
Trip Report – Maggie’s London Night Hike
Posted in Trip Reports, tagged cancer charity, charity walk, Hiking, london adventure group, london walks, walking on September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ranmali had originally emailed some of us in the group asking whether we should enter a team for this charity event. It was clear that there was enought interest so we submitted a team and began to raise some sponsorship for this worthy cause.
By the day of the event there were 8 of us in [...]
Cycling in Richmond Park
Posted in Trip Reports, tagged Cyling Richmond Park, Geocaching, london adventure group, Roehampton Gate on August 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As it was a lovely sunny day, Jen and I decided to head out to Richmond Park to do some cycling.
Jen hired a bike and was then kept waiting when I had trouble changing the chain on my bike.
Finally we set off from Roehampton Gate for a lap of the park, stopping a number of [...]
Trip Report – Canoe Trip River Wye
Posted in Trip Reports, tagged Hereford Canoe Hire, Hoarwithy, Holme Lacy, Kerne Bridge, london adventure group, Lucksall Campsite, River Wye Canoe, St Catherine's Church, Symonds Yat, Symonds Yat Rapids, Tipi, YHA Welsh Bicknor on August 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We left London Thursday night, finally arriving at Lucksall Campsite in Holme Lacy just as it was getting dark. Once the tents were up most of us decided to drive to Hereford to get some supplies and to sit down for a curry.
Friday morning we packed the tents away, used the camping stoves to cook [...]
