Bradgate Park.
We parked up in the Hunts Hill car-park and walked up to the Old John folly. The route then took us to the war memorial, where the kids spent an hour or so kite-flying while I went in search of the elusive Precambrian fossils that I had been shown when I was a geology undergrad.
While clambering about on the outcrops I met three geo-academics (two from Leicester University and the other visiting from South Africa) and we ended up discussing matters such as the scanning and preservation of the site, and the staff from my days at The University of Birmingham - it turned out that we had some mutual friends, I think that the guy that I was chatting to was amused to get some idea of the undergrad opinions of the staff at Brum back in the early Eighties.
Anyway, we were off again soon, after the kids had done some climbing up the easy rock faces. We walked for a few miles, saw some frogs, some grasshoppers and a magnificent stag, then we went back to the entrance to pick up our picnic, which we carried back up to Old John. After eats, we flew kites again until the sun went down, then we had to leave before the warden could evict us. The only downer on the day came later when I had to remove four ticks from the back of my leg.
THE SMALL(ish) PRINT... (updated 23/07/2016)
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