Day 26 Get on your bike

If you haven't discovered it yet the Bristol to Bath cycle path is fantastic, family friendly place to take a closer look at nature. At this time of year the route is full of wild foods, from blackberries to damsons, and apples to elderberries.The flat, traffic free path is an ideal place to take a first bike ride or for those more experienced, to get all the way to Bath from Bristol (or visa versa) stopping at the old railway station cafe on route for refreshments. If I have any left when I get home I love making blackberry muffins with my foraged finds.You can access the cycle path at many points along the route which has been photographed in both directions. Stop off along the way with a picnic and investigate the hedgerows, use the OPAL biodiversity survey to help you identify the different plants that might be growing in them.

Day 17 Geocaching

Now this is something that I enjoy doing with my own children, you do need a smart phone and it's best if you have the geocaching app but it is so much fun. If you've never tried it, imagine a treasure hunt that covers the whole world but has little gifts everywhere, quite possibly within walking distance from your house. All you need to do is to go to the website, put in your postcode and a map will show you where to look for the nearest geocache.

The idea is that you find the cache (often a small plastic tub), sign in the book, take a little gift and leave a small treasure of your own for the next person. Once you get started you will be hooked! There's lots of variations too, such as 'trackers', these travel from cache to cache and their journey gets logged online so that you can see how far they go.

Try it out, there's loads just in Bristol and Bath city centres so you can make a whole day out of it and get to see some great sites too.

A successful find!