Chilterns American Women's Club hiking group

Ramblings

BBC

Science, Nature, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2013

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In this new series of Ramblings, Clare Balding will be walking in search of new places, new people and new experiences. In this first programme she joins the Chilterns American Women's Club hiking group, who walk in search of learning more about their new home and meeting other ex-pat spouses. The club offers a range of activities for ex-American and International women who find themselves living in Britain but the walking group is one of the most popular allowing them to discover and explore their adopted home. Later in the series Clare talks to people who walk in search of a new partner, to discover more about the environment and she walks with the celebrated author Robert MacFarlane who walks to discover the old routes. Producer Lucy Lunt.

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0:00.0	Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I want to tell you why I love podcasting. Hi, my name's Tommy Dixon,
0:06.3	and I make podcasts for the BBC. I'm a big fan of stories, always loved a good book. But when I started
0:12.0	commuting for my first job, I discovered podcasts. I was blown away by how a creative idea and the right
0:17.8	mixture of sounds could take you into a whole new world full of incredible stories. You know, the type that make you go, wow. And that kind of inspired me to
0:25.2	give it a go myself, which to cut a long story short led to a BBC training scheme and a whole
0:29.9	new career giving other people that exact same feeling. So if you want to hear amazing stories
0:34.1	that make you go wow like I did, they're just a tap or click away on BBC
0:38.0	sounds.
0:40.5	This is a download from the BBC. It's Ramblings on Radio 4 with me, Claire Boulding.
0:50.4	Welcome to a new series of ramblings and today I'm in the Chilterns And I am joining a group of women
0:56.3	The Chiltern American Women's Club
0:58.2	And I can see them standing in a circle
1:00.8	There are about
1:01.7	Three, six, eight or nine
1:05.2	Eight or nine women
1:06.2	And all of them have moved over here
1:09.1	Because of work or because of her husband's work.
1:11.7	Hello, gang.
1:12.9	Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello.
1:15.0	I saw the letter. Who sent out the letter?
1:17.4	That was me.
1:18.1	Was that you? You, Bonnie?
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