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Driving through
rural Staffordshire, probably the last thing you expect to come across is a
level crossing guarded by the Wehrmacht.
But, it wasn’t the walking group’s first foray into an alternative
universe. We were in the Churnet Valley,
where the steam railway was hosting a
1940s weekend, and amongst the many and various uniforms were a select band of
people in fleeces rather than flannel, thank you very much.
Back in the
1940s, food scraps were recycled by pigs, so appropriately enough we set off
through a herd of swine, then a up a hill – a gentle one, though.
The route
plan led us on an interesting tour with a few blind turns, and at one point a
forest of rhododendrons which had just been turned to wood-chip prior to our
arrival – but the natural scenery more than made up for that. Some light drizzle dried up in time for a
sunny lunch break in a meadow, and then before too long we were back down in
the valley for beer, steam and coal smoke, and an easy saunter alongside the
canal and the railway line... all the way back to The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
Of Company B. The 21st century will be
resumed shortly.
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