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Category Archives: walking
Walking With Rosie #bookreview #the rosieresult
I did a daft thing a few weeks ago; I signed up with the Long Distance Walking Association to undertake their 3rd Capital Challenge. Starting at St John’s Church Waterloo it circumnavigates some of the best bits of London’s green … Continue reading
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Tagged 3rd capital challenge walk, London, the rosie project, the rosie result, walking
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Walking While Pondering #dunwich #suffolk
When it comes to weather, we can become a trifle obsessed. Today, fr’instance, the weather person told me we achieved the highest ever February temperature in the UK – 20.6 C somewhere in Wales. Most people of my close acquaintance … Continue reading
Walking With The Wind At My Back: Part Five #coasttocoast #walking
Richmond to Robin Hood’s Bay This was the last section of our grand adventure. You can find the earlier sections of the walk from the Cumbrian coast at St Bees Head, here. Spread over four days we traversed the dull … Continue reading
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Tagged Catterick, Coast to Coast, Ingelby Cross, North Yorkshire Moors, Richmond
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Walking With The Wind At My Back: Part Four
Kirkby Stephen to Richmond This is the fourth part of my walk that I undertook with my father and friends across England from Coast to Coast. Part three is here. You can link back to the earlier posts from there. … Continue reading
Walking With The Wind At My Back: Part Three
I’m continuing a series on the Coast to Coast walk that my father and I did, with one of his friends, Ernie and two other friends who drove us. This is part three. Here is part one and here is … Continue reading
Walking With The Wind At My Back: Part Two
St Bees To Patterdale The start of any long walk was full of apprehension. Will the body cope? Will my companions cope? Will my relationship with my companions cope? It rarely involved any sort of ‘will it be fun?’ I … Continue reading
Walking With The Wind At My Back: Part One
‘Let’s do something a bit different next year.’ I should have known this would mean redefining the words ‘a bit’. Dad and I and a couple of his friends had just finished the fourth of our summer walking holidays. Dad … Continue reading
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Tagged Coast to Coast, dad, long distance footpaths, memories, north downs way, walking
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