Foxys HOliday and Travel Guides and Walks

Holiday Guides for Egypt Luxor, New Zealand, England, The Algarve, Cyprus and the Greek Islands.

 

NEW ZEALAND. veiws from the Abel Tasman Trail - Anchorage New Zealand This series of pages are all about our 2007 holiday in New Zealand - we started our travels at Auckland in New Zealand's North Island and travelled south stopping at Thames and Taupo for several days before heading south to Wellington for the ferry. Once across the Cook Straits we then continued down South Island's West Coast stopping off at Franz Josef, Te Anau and Dunedin before ending our holiday at Christchurch. There are loads of photos and general New Zealand holiday information on our pages which we hope you will enjoy.
This includes photos and information from our visits to the thermal areas (geysers, mud pools etc.) near Rotorua, our Milford Sound and Doubtful Sound trips in Fjordland and several walks we did on the beautiful Abel Tasman Trail. We also took a fantastic helicopter ride into the mountains of the Southern Alps to get close ups of Mount Cook and Franz Josef Glacier as well as landing on the top of Fox Glacier itself. New Zealand Travel and Holiday Guides

 

 

WALKING ENGLAND.
St Paul's Church at Steeple Aston in England Dashwoods Bridge We have an extensive section on walking in England using our excellent English National Trails -  instructions on mostly circular walks using The Ridgeway, The Oxfordshire Way, The South Bucks Way, The Icknield Way and so on - perfect for a walking holiday in England. These walks take you through our beautiful woodlands, along canals such as the beautiful Oxford Canal or our famous Grand Union Canal as well as The River Thames and it's Thames Path visiting well known places such as Henley, Marlow, Chequers, Blenheim, Woodstock and Goring. All of our Walks plus lots of photos from around the great countryside England has to offer are listed on this  ENGLISH WALKS  Page. Our Ordnance Survey maps are extremely accurate for use as walking maps with all recognised paths and tracks clearly marked. In addition the paths and National Trails themselves have clear direction signs on most intersections - making any holiday walking in England really straightforward whether you want a few miles or a longer 20 mile day out hiking. The Photos on the right are of Steeple Aston's church of St Peter and St Paul and the other is the beautiful Dashwood Canal Bridge.

 

ENGLAND.
Apart from the 21 or so walks mentioned above we have been busy taking lots of photos of our local English Churches and now we have hundred's of church photos covering several English Counties. We have now split our Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire church photo pages as there were so many pictures on them.

Oxfordshire Churches - pictures of local churches - villages+towns in Oxfordshire with names between A and L
Oxfordshire Church Photos - Oxfordshire Church photos for villages+towns which are named between M and Y
Buckinghamshire Church Photos Photos of churches in Buckinghamshire - Villages and Towns named between A and H
Buckinghamshire Church Photos These are pictures of Bucks Local Village Churches named between I and W
Gloucestershire's Churches A Series of church photos showing some of Gloucestershires Local Churches
Beds, Berks, Herts and Wilts Church Pictures Church pictures from  churces located in the English Counties of Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Hertfordshire and Wiltshire
Warks - Leics - Northants Church Photos A variety of Warwickshire, Leicestershire and Northamptonshire church photos from these English Counties.

ENGLISH NATURE
English Wild Flowers 100s of pictures of our English WildFlowers.
Toadstools Pictures of English Toadstools.

ENGLAND'S BEAUTIFUL CANALS
The Oxford Canal and it's lovely Bridges and Locks:-
We have we beleive a photo record of every Bridge and Lock on The Oxfordshire Canal - also other canal features such as sluices, nearbye railway bridges, pipe bridges, old pump houses and aqueducts.
Oxford Canal Locks - photos of all the locks to be seen on the Oxford Canal.
Oxford to Banbury Pictures At least one picture of Every bridge crossing the Oxford Canal between Oxford and Banbury.
Banbury to Braunston Photos All the canal bridges - which can be seen on the Banbury to Braunston stretch of the wandering Oxford Canal.
Canal Photos - Braunston to Hawkesbury Junction Each bridge is shown on the Oxford Canal's trip between Banbury and Braunston.


The Grand Union Canal / Grand Central Canal.
We are currently walking the length of this equally beautiful English Canal for the purpose of taking pictures of all of it's locks, bridges and nearbye features.

Grand Union Canal The Locks and Bridges and also Blisworth Tunnel featured on the Grand Union Canal on it's route between Gayton Junction and Wolverton - photos of all the bridges and locks.
Grand Union Canal Pictures of all the Locks and Bridges on our famous English Canal between Wolverton and Horton.
Grand Union Canal Lock and Bridge Photos from the Canals trip between Ivinghoe Lock and Kings Langley.
Grand Union Canal Kings Langley to Denham Grand Central Canal Bridge and Lock Pictures.


Canal Side Arms.
The Grand Union Canal also has quite a few Side Arms - some of them are quite short as with the 5 mile Northampton Arm whilst others are really full canals in their own right due to their length. Several of the Arms are in a poor state but a huge effort is being undertaken by local canal enthuisiasts to get them back to their full glory - as for instance with the extremely attractive Wendover Arm. The Canal Arms we have walked so far are shown below - with a record of all bridges and (if they have any) Locks etc. at the time of walking and also a little about their history.

Aylesbury Arm Photos and Information about this Buckinghamshire Canal Arm.
Wendover Arm Pictures showing off the partially wet and beautiful Wendover Arm located in Buckinghamshire.
Slough Arm. The 5 mile Slough Canal Arm - photos of all of it's bridges and canal features.
Northampton Canal Arm Northampton's Canal - pictures of all of it's locks and bridges.

 

 

CYPRUS has probably got just about everything you would want for your summer holiday - and of course the Troodos mountains mean it's not a bad choice for a holiday if you want to go skiing either. A holiday to Cyprus offers fantastic beaches Curium Church - Cyprus  varying from busy and easily accessible beaches with all the facilities you would want (perhaps particularly if you have children) i.e. food outlets, sun shades and chairs, ice cream stalls and all of that type of thing - to really remote beaches such as you can find out on the Akamas Peninsular. Out on Akamas the beaches are sometimes huge and often have lovely waves crashing in on the shoreline whilst there are also tiny little inlets with just a little sand and nobody around - perfect if you like sunbathing and swimming nude.
We love walking and Cyprus is excellent for this - Troodos mountain walks or out on the wild Akamas - trails and paths, gorge walks and hill walks are all described on our various Cyprus pages - all packed with lots of photographs to show what you can do on a walking holiday to Cyprus. We also have an extensive set of archaeological photos taken around Paphos and Akrotiri. Our Cyprus Main Page

 

 

Portugal Algarve Coast - Benagi'sl colourful rocks PORTUGAL - THE ALGARVE. There again how about taking a summer or even Spring holiday out on The Algarve in Southern Portugal ? It's only several hours away and usually you can expect to get some really nice weather.

There are a recently created series of pages on Portugal - The Algarve   - lots of information and photographs about costs, beaches (but not much about golf since we do not partake in such a cruel activity) however we do love to go out hiking and we have quite a few walks - with many descriptive photos - described.
The Algarve's Atlantic coastline has easily the best and most scenic rock formations we have ever seen - and there are of course loads of gorgeous looking beaches to chose from whilst in The Algarve. Algarve Travel and Holiday Guides

 

Luxor canal walk We had a holiday in EGYPT - LUXOR fairly recently and went on our own around  Luxor's  Temples, Tombs and Ancient Sites so we have a considerable amount of information on this with lots of photographs including some pictures from inside the tombs in the Valley of the Kings, Valley of the Queens, Nobles and Workers areas showing the drawings.
We have describe how to do these Luxor days out/trips independently so you can use your own itinerary and enjoy the sites at your own pace - plus we have indicated typical costs etc. - it's surprisingly cheap and very easy to do your own thing at Luxor.
Incidentally there is also a fairly short walk described on the West Bank where we wandered round the canals for a while - lovely countryside and wildlife. There are several pages and loads of photographs about our visits to Madinat  Habu and Karnak as well as the Luxor Temple. Egypt: Luxor Guides

 

Skamnioudi - Lesvos Greece For many years one of our all time favourite holiday destinations is taking holidays in GREECE - we usually try to go at least twice a year and normally our choice is to have a holiday on one of Greece's lovely islands rather than the Greek mainland. Whilst on our Greek Island Holidays we always expect to spend quite a lot of time out hiking as well as of course enjoying the beaches and tavernas etc. - we have walked and photographed lots of Greek Islands now.
So if you are looking for ideas on which Greek Island to go to for your next spring or summer holiday then our Greece holiday, walks, photos and travel Guides might give you some indication of what the islands described below are like.  We have holiday guides on the following Greek Islands: Alonissos, Andros, Corfu Photos, Crete, Lesvos, Mykonos, Naxos, Paros, Paxos, Rhodes Photos, Samos, Skiathos, Skopelos, Symi, Lefkada and Thassos :- Greek Island Holiday and Travel Guides.

 

 

Austria - just a few winter scene photos from Salzburg.

 

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