91 greenish trips for the first five years of retirement

The Page lists days out , short breaks and longer trips from Bristol which have all been taken since the date of my retirement in October 2008.
A number of them are detailed in posts on this blog or the green charity challenge blog. More will be. Please contact me about any individual trip. A recent contibutor to Clare Balding's BBC Ramblings reckoned it takes five years to get used to retirement - trips and travel are part of that process.

The 91 identified trips were taken in generally "green"- low carbon - ways: cycle, bus, train, occasionally ship (but sea and cruise
travel is under represented). MORE DETAIL AND LINKS WI|LL BE ADDED.

Why and whither to Hither Green?

An answer after travelling towards Hither Green (well actually to Waterloo and Central London) on Wednesday 8th August 2012.
In brief: IT IS ACTUALLY CHEAPER TO BUY RAIL TICKETS TO OBSCURE STATIONS IN LONDON SUBURBS ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF LONDON FROM WHENCE YOU COME, THAN TO BUY TICKETS TO 'YOUR' LONDON TERMINAL.
So a return ticket to Hither Green at the height of the Olympics, admittedly via the slow Salisbury route cost a Senior rail card holder £20.40; a similar return to Waterloo was about £25 and to Paddington about £30 - all advance tickets available two or three days before travel and  arriving in London after 11.00 and getting back to Bristol after 22.00.
Experiment on the First Great Western website.

Day Out from Bristol to Stourhead NT Sat. 19th May 2012

STOURHEAD with BRISTOL'S HIGH CROSS 19th May  Stourhead -- National Trust arranged by  dnembruce@btinternet.com  18th Century Italian Park and Gardens  and BRISTOL’S HIGH CROSS then Palladian Mansion A day out with the Bristol Civic Society on Saturday 19th May. An Opportunity to go round  Italian Gardens at Stourhead Mansion  at the peak of the spring and the rhododendrons