Ireland day 1488. Saturday 25 October 2025- Salisbury LMC

Today’s summary	Had a relaxing morning then caught an afternoon train to Salisbury to attend a reunion dinner for a mountaineering club we joined when I first started work in the 1980s. We caught the 15:20 Yeovil train and were in Salisbury 80 minutes later. Short walk to the hotel then a very enjoyable evening dinner from 6:30pm, finished about 1 am
Today’s weather	Dry and bright with some sun. Strong north westerly wind. Appx 11c

Today’s overview location (The blue mark shows the location of our route)		Close-up location (The blue line shows where we walked) (Click button below to download GPX of today’s walk as recorded, or see interactive map at bottom with elevations corrected): Salisbury hotel from station

Commentary

It seems to be the season of half century walking club anniversaries at the moment. Last yearr the UK’s Long Distance Walkers Association celebrated its fifty years, and next month the Dublin Walking Club does the same. But today it was the turn of the Lensbury Walking Club, which also reached its half century in 2025.

Val and I joined this club soon after I started work in the 1980s. So we were delighted be invited to go along to the anniversary celebration dinner – which is being held today, in Salisbury, UK.

As we were already staying in London, we allowed ourselves the luxury of a relaxing morning, before setting out on the short trip to Wiltshire. After lunch, we walked over the river to Waterloo station and caught the 15:20 Yeovil train, which dropped us off in Salisbury 80 minutes later.

We’re staying at the White Hart hotel, which is quarter of an hour’s walk from the station. We were checked in by about 5pm, and settled into our room. It’s comfortable, but like so many nice hotels these days, has air conditioning fans right outside our bedroom window, so it’s quite noisy. Anyway, we met for dinner at 6:30 and spent the next few hours , eating, drinking and renewing old friendships. A really good evening, which didn’t finish until nearly 1am. There were several decades of news to catch up on, after all!

Today’s photos (click to enlarge)


Interesting and effective-looking green roof on one of the riverside buildings. I think it may be related to the new “Super Sewer”, which runs near the Embankment, but I’m not certain	Approaching Waterloo Station from York Road. It’s a bit grotty round here but the station itself is OK

The windows could do with a bit of a clean!	Leading the way down Water Lane

Crossing the Avon, in central Salisbury	At the dinner. There was a good turnout – about sixty of us in all

The White Hart – home for the next two nights