We went for a walk this week where Winnie the Pooh, Christopher Robin and their friends lived. The fictional “Hundred Acre Wood” is actually a real place in the Ashdown Forest in East Sussex. It’s not all forest either. Nearly two thirds of its 2500 hectares (10 square miles) is heathland. For me it wasn’t
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I looked up in shock when a dog suddenly ran up to me and its shouting owner directly behind it as I lay on the grass by Ardingly Reservoir. Are you okay? the woman asked. Sorry? I replied. I thought something had happened to you as you were lying so still and for so long,
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We first went to the wrong car park at Camp Hero in Montauk, but we didn’t know it. In front of us was a bluff with a warning to keep back 25 feet as it was undermined. To our east was the Montauk Point Lighthouse and to the west at the top of the hill
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If I had to choose the best place to visit with kids in the Hamptons it would be SoFo … SoFo – the South Fork Natural History Museum and Nature Center. Why? Here are my reasons why this is such a special place for children: Outdoors wild life Last week we even went there twice. We
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Where the glaciers once stopped are ocean bluffs in a place called Shadmoor. Near Montauk. A nature preserve named after the Shadbush. In 1898 over 21,000 soldiers were brought to Camp Wikoff – which was part of this land – to prevent the spread of yellow fever and tropical diseases at the end of the Spanish-American War. Now there’s a running
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Stretching across the Southfork in the Hamptons is a series of coastal plain ponds, marshes and wetlands known as the Long Pond Greenbelt. My children and I went for a nature adventure following the trails along its northern loop starting in Sag Harbor. Over 600 acres have been protected as this ecosystem, according to the Nature
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