In this episode we had our first guest – Hidden Wiltshire’s resident expert on Salisbury Plain, Steve Dewey.
But to begin with, Glyn talks about some birthday and anniversary milestones that instead of being celebrated in Rome, will be celebrated at Bishopstrow in Wiltshire – keeping it local!
This weeks episode was actually recorded whilst I was closer to Norway than London, taking a break travelling around Shetland and Orkney.
I managed to shamelessly plug the photography exhibition that Steve Dixon and I are staging together with another Wiltshire photographer, Alan Cowley, as part of the Marlborough Opens Studios Art Trail. This takes place from 11:00 to 17:00 on the first four weekends in July although Steve, Alan and my gallery will only be open for the first three weekends. More about this in Exhibitions section of this website.
Glyn then talks about the next Hidden Wiltshire walk – 24th July will be Bratton and Luccombe Springs, and 14th August is the Hills above Edington.
Then onto this episode’s main feature – an exploration of Salisbury Plain with Steve Dewey. Steve is a photographer who spends a lot of time around the plain, exploring in his 4 wheel drive car as unlike Glyn and I, he is definitely not a walker. This is a huge subject, but after a general chit chat about the whole area we focus on two things – the Black Heath area, and the Old Slow Coach Road, both of which Steve has written about for the Hidden Wiltshire website.
We finish with the usual housekeeping. Reminder about the Hidden Wiltshire Online shop and the offer to listeners of the podcast from Lowa Boots UK. You’ll need to listen to the podcast for details of how you can save 20% on their walking boots and shoes. Now we’re all venturing out more you definitely need a good pair of boots, and Glyn and I can both vouch for the quality of Lowa.
The music and sounds in the podcast are provided by the aforementioned multi-talented Steve Dixon. The piece in the Introduction is entitled “The Holloway”, whilst the piece linking to the talk on Salisbury Plain is a new one entitled “Holgar the Can Man”. Don’t ask!
Finally credit to Steve Dewey for the photograph of Salisbury Plain in this blog.