A Regional Ramble

Looking towards Oxford from the Chiltern Hills

Hello all. In keeping with our promise, it’s time for another installment. This time, it’s more natural than breeding rats and far more beautiful I can assure you.

We’ve got some lovely countryside in the south of England and in Buckinghamshire in particular. We’re actually living in an area called the Chiltern Hills. Grabbing a couple of Finns (as you do), we headed out for a day walking in these hills recently. 

Timo and Eline were studying with us. They’ve now left to return to Finland and we hope to see them in January in Papua New Guinea as we’re both on the list for the basic training course there. While they were in the UK, we wanted to show them some British culture.

Now, when the summer sun’s shining on the grass of England, what better thing to do then than to walk to a pub for a Ploughman’s?

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