Ashford Camino week 5, (9 October 2026)

The temperatures have gone down now but the humidity is high.  The colours around us are beginning turn into the warm shades of brown, orange and yellow.  It had been raining but we were lucky; a mostly level walk without much mud.

Now that it's autumn, it's a week for noticing what you're carrying, and what you can gently let go of.  This walk started at Singleton Lakes just south-west of Ashford.  We travelled through Godinton Park and visited Hothfield Lake and waterfall before return via the Buxford Fish Pass.

There was a height limit at the car park but the van managed to find a spot in a layby.

For this week's walk I made pretzels to celebrate Oktoberfest.  Instead of making large wagon wheels, I made little pretzel knots, all sprinkled with salt and sesame seeds.

Hothfield	Buxford Fish Pass	Buxford Fish Pass	Buxford Fish Pass
		Reading tree stumps	Hothfield
Pretzel preparation	Boiling the dough in bicarbonate of soda	The finished pretzels	Tea time beside the river

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