I'm having a great week running a public PHP course - a near-perfect (from a teaching viewpoint) group of 4 trainees - enough for there to be plenty of interaction, and few enough for everyone to be getting the very best of attention and tailoring of the course. This week, everyone's fit and is a keen walker,

and is staying in a local B&B or hotel ... so we took the local OS map and walked out to Seend, on the
Kennet and Avon Canal and ate at "The Barge" - one of the
lovely country pubs near Melksham.
There are many public footpaths in the area (
map) and we saw a good selection - from urban through Bowerhill and well-defined across the field, to the cycleway beside the canal and some more adventurous paths on our return - along the railbed of the old Iron Plateway (Seend was quite an industrial spot) to the site of Seend Station - through a field of cows, then over a field of wheat back to the main road. Now who was it who commented "I didn't know I was coming on a teambuilding exercise ;-) "
(written 2005-06-09, updated 2006-06-05)
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