Joe's adventures on the trail. Backpacking, hiking, road trips, and town walks with my human dad.
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here after an evening trip to Castell Caergwrle or Caergwrle Castle. It's a 15-minute drive from home, so rather than walk around Ruabon, my human suggested that we nip to the castle. We have never visited Caergwrle before but had driven through it many times on our … Continue reading Castell Caergwrle / Caergwrle Castle
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here after an overnight camping trip. We are planning a backpacking trip shortly in a remote part of Scotland, and my human wanted to do a dry run to check all our winter kit out. We decided to stay fairly close to home so we could abandon … Continue reading Carrog overnight camp
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here after I have just taken my human for one of our regular walks. This time, it was after some overnight snowfall. We have written about this walk before so I have instructed my human to not waffle keep the chat to a minimum. So, here are … Continue reading Ruabon rural in snow
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here. My human and I have been walking locally a lot lately. We recently published a blog about our walk along the Afon Eitha or River Eitha as it passed through Ruabon. This time we thought that we would follow the course of the same river as … Continue reading Penycae – following the Afon Eitha
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here after a walk around Ruabon with my human. My human wanted to create a 'Then and Now' blog highlighting how Ruabon has changed over the years. He has credited the owners of the original photos where possible. He is unsure where some of the originals came … Continue reading Ruabon / Rhiwabon – Then and Now
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here after a short walk of discovery. Me and my human live only a short distance from Weston Rhyn, a small village just over the border into England. While he was scouring the Internet for inspiration for nearby ancient standing stones and stone circles, he came across … Continue reading The Temple at Weston Rhyn
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here after another local walk around Ruabon. We decided to follow the course of the Afon Eitha as it meanders through the village. On this occasion, we decided to just include the length of the river that runs within the boundaries of the village. We started our … Continue reading Ruabon – following the Afon Eitha
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here. On my walk with my human this morning, he stopped every few yards to take photographs. He's no photographs, but he tries. Bless him! It was a sunny October morning after a spell of heavy rain with a storm forecast for the next day. This is … Continue reading Ruabon / Rhiwabon Autumn
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here after a hike around Colemere. The lake is thirty minutes' drive from home and one of our regular evening walks in the summer. It's a quiet lakeside walk close to the more popular Ellesmere. There are a number of meres in this part of Shropshire and … Continue reading Colemere lake walk
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here. Me and my human decided to extend one of our local walks. Sometimes we walk along Park Street, continuing up Twining Hill until we reach the path along Wat's Dyke. We walk along the path to Pentre Clawdd then turn down the drive and return to … Continue reading A rural Ruabon walk
Joe the Cocker's Hikes 