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Puzzled?
It’s an odd place. Nothing more than a bit of a stroll in the woods really. Oh and there’s a few kids petting animals and a little maze and a nice willow playground. But, strangely, it’s so much more than that – and it really does get to you. Tolkien apparently wandered here and found…
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A-Maze-ing!
Some years ago, two young brothers moved to the country with their parents and, just for a laugh, decided to plant a maze in the corner of the rather large field that was then their back garden. Little did they know that, some forty years later, they’d still be there. The maze would have grown…
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Flutter by..
Never seen anything like it! Wherever you look; on the floor, in the air, on the plants, by the paths, there they are. Great big beautiful blue ones as big as your hand, tiny little pretty red ones that hide on bushes in front of your nose, drifty floaty white ones that sail past as…
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Down, Down, Deeper and Down!
Boy oh boy. What a trip! There are two options for caving near the Dome Garden. The first is a pleasant enough stroll through 7 lighted caverns with displays on mining and geology. Its very nicely done, the caves are littered with equipment and artefacts that chart the convoluted story of the caves as both…
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Paddles Up!
OK, so its not class 6 white water but parts of the Wye get up to a very enthusiastic class 3 and just down the road we have some of the safest, most picturesque water in the country. So, whether you’re taking your first steps (?) err, paddles, or fancy a limber up further up…
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Hiking
There’s More Hiking Here Than You Can Shake A Stick At! So, dust off your finest switch and head for the woods. The one thing The Forest Of Dean has is tracks. Tracks, tracks and more tracks and then tracks that cross back over those tracks. Up hill, down hill, dead straight or dead level,…
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Biking
We like biking! No. We LOVE biking! No. WE ARE BIKING! Just beyond our boundary is a designated mountain-biking area, which includes the slightly spicy Sallow Vallets off-road area, complete with mad-person’s, red-grade forest single tracks – as well as seven, seriously scary, downhill runs. Then, thankfully, just beyond it, a 20 km surfaced track…
