10-05-2025
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11.30 -13.00. Of all the places I visit, this site in the spring reminds me most of places in the Swiss Alps. I don't think it is just the vertiginous slopes - this is not a place for the faint-hearted, it is amazing that cows cope - but also the number and the variety of butterflies to be seen. I was going to visit sites further south but the trains were up the creek, so I aborted my journey and instead walked from Westbury to Warminster. For once, thank you GWR for failing to do the one thing you exist to do - things turned out very well!
Simon Crampin