PaulOfHorsham's photos

The "Combat de l'échasse d'Or" is a fight on stilts - the 2 teams line up against each other and are supposed to resemble giants. It would appear that training starts early in life.

A day-trip to Namur and I stumbled across the "Fete de Wallonie", celebrating Belgian independence and Walloon identity.

The walk up from town to the citadel opens up constant views of the Meuse stretching away into the hills to the south.

I climbed the 97-metre tower of St. Rumbold's Cathedral to get a great view of the city and surrounding area. The city flag was flapping in the breeze. It features the lion of Flanders on red and yellow stripes.

Intrigued, particularly by the apparently random inclusion of Windsor on the list of destinations, so I took the photo as I passed and investigated further. It was built in 1794 but, in 1818 a turnpike road was opened between Guildford and Horsham, and the obelisk proved to be an ideal place to locate important road signs. It seems that the Prince Regent passed by en-route from Windsor Castle to Brighton Pavilion (each 31 miles, it seems). Brighton is unseen, but on the right-hand side (with the back having no sign).

An old church encountered on a Thames Path walk through the old docks area of South-East London. This building was completed in 1716, replacing an earlier 12th century church. St. Marys has its own website

Wandered through the quiet cobbled old streets of the old Beguinage in Leuven during my recent visit. Quiet because University term was just about to start - these old cottages are now home to students from the University, so quite possibly things are a little different during term time. Beguines were (mostly) unmarried women who lived a spiritual life in this closed community. Unlike nuns, they were free to marry if they chose.

On the staircase at Leuven University Library Tower.

From the path over Benson Lock on the Thames Path in Oxfordshire. This area regularly features on the coldest places today.

Another delightful scene in the quiet back-streets of Chichester

A day trip to the West Sussex county town, wandering some of the back streets

Always worth looking upwards: this time at St. Johns Lock on the Thames near Lechlade

The Thames Path has recently been rerouted in the Inglesham area, now tracking the river much more closely. Hence the revisit to this part of the world. This is the Church of St John the Baptist, dating from the 13th Century

It was Easter Sunday, and the book of prayer was open at the appropriate page

So many flowers in the field, some huddled together like these two.

Wandering into a field in Wiltshire, I was astonished to find a carpet of these extraordinary flowers which I now know to be Snake's Head Fritillaries

Would have been a simpler picture to take had I not waited till the jar was almost empty.

The leaves are falling from the magnolia tree. This is what remains.