Micro Travels with Mary

Let’s celebrate Bedfordshire Day

Tomorrow is Bedfordshire Day. A forgettable day in the County calendar celebrated on 28th November, the birthday of famous son John Bunyan (1628 …

Nov 27, 2025 • Micro Travels with Mary Tebje

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October 2025

Ghosts and Spirits abroad on Samhain eve

The Chilterns has its fair share of hammer horror and headless horsemen, a ghostly drummer boy and satanic monks. What is your Halloween pleasure?

Oct 30, 2025 • Micro Travels with Mary Tebje

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Portsmouth Point

This place is full of memories, ghosts and glimpses of a turbulent past through the war memorials, flowers and sad monuments to those who have passed…

Oct 15, 2025 • Micro Travels with Mary Tebje

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September 2025

If you came looking for the heads, you will be disappointed

I make no secret of the fact I love to mooch around a museum, curious to learn about the world we live in. It’s a relaxing, easy day out right?

Sep 29, 2025 • Micro Travels with Mary Tebje

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Ashridge Boundary Trail

Less a barrier, more a linear space where meadows merge with woodland, forest with chalk ridge through which wildlife passes, impervious to this…

Sep 1, 2025 • Micro Travels with Mary Tebje

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June 2025

The St James’ Way

Join me on a walk along a re-imaged medieval pilgrim route through the English spring countryside from Reading in Berkshire to Southhampton in…

Jun 18, 2025 • Micro Travels with Mary Tebje

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December 2024

Merry Christmas

What a journey we’ve had this year, from almshouses to kites and all manner of Chilterns Treasures in between.

Dec 18, 2024 • Micro Travels with Mary Tebje

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November 2024

K is for Kites

A wildlife success story, or are the ubiquitous circling kites on the lookout for food becoming an aerial nuisance?

Nov 27, 2024 • Micro Travels with Mary Tebje

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J is for James

What are the ingredients for a good mystery? Notoriety, a mysterious death, royalty and religion, international travel and a symbol that is now…

Nov 18, 2024 • Micro Travels with Mary Tebje

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I is for Independents

Our independent producers, retailers, pubs and museums are too often celebrated as our best kept secret. That’s just bonkers, our best kept secret must…

Nov 10, 2024 • Micro Travels with Mary Tebje

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October 2024

H is for Halloween

Ghosts and Spirits are abroad on Samhain eve and the Chilterns has its fair share of hammer horror and headless horsemen, a ghostly drummer boy and…

Oct 31, 2024 • Micro Travels with Mary Tebje

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G is for the Goring Gap

Two villages face off across the River Thames, rivalries friendly, but one outdid the other when William Turner chose to paint Goring mill and church.

Oct 27, 2024 • Micro Travels with Mary Tebje

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