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Walks
Things that go well with a nice cup of tea and a sit down.
17 Posts
- Grasmere Gingerbread
- Knickerbocker glory
- Cream Tea
- Strawberry Cream Tea
- Newens: The Original Maids Of Honour
- Melton Hunt Cake
- Melton Mowbray Pork Pie
- A pasty or two from Cornwall
- Saffron cake
- Welsh Toffee Waffles
- Welshcakes (picau ar y maen)
- English Estate Tea from Tregothnan
- Cornish Fairings
- Yorkshire Tea Biscuits
- Yorkshire Parkin
- Whitby Gingerbread
- Tunnock’s Caramel Wafer
In late May 2007 I walked the Coast to Coast route from St Bees in Cumbria to Robin Hood’s Bay in North Yorkshire.
22 Posts
- Coast to Coast – booked
- Day 1 St Bees – Ennerdale Bridge
- Day 2 Ennerdale Bridge – Stonethwaite
- Day 3 Stonethwaite – Grasmere
- Day 4 Grasmere to Glenridding (Patterdale)
- Day 5 Glenridding to Burnbanks (Bampton Grange)
- Day 6 Bampton Grange to Orton
- Day 7 Orton to Kirkby Stephen
- Day 8 Kirkby Stephen to Keld (Thwaite)
- Day 9 Keld to Reeth
- Day 10 Reeth to Richmond
- Day 11 Richmond to Ingleby Arncliff
- Day 12 Ingleby Arncliff to Urra (Clay Bank Top)
- Day 13 Urra to Glaisdale
- Day 14 Glaisdale to Littlebeck
- Day 15 Littlebeck to Robin Hood’s Bay
- Coast to Coast Panoramas – #1 Dent Fell
- Coast to Coast Panoramas – #2 Ullswater
- Coast to Coast Panoramas – #3 Patterdale
- Coast to Coast Panoramas – #4 Haweswater
- Coast to Coast Panoramas – #5 Orton Scar
- New images from Coast to Coast
a series on kit¹ and caboodle² that I have acquired and used for my travels.
¹ kit – gear consisting of a set of articles or tools for a specified purpose.
² caboodle – archaic term meaning group or collection.
8 Posts
During May 2008 I took 19 days to walk the 260 or so miles (412km) of the Pennine Way, from Edale to Kirk Yetholm.
27 Posts
- Heading towards the Pennines
- Edale – the day before
- Hollins Cross (Edale) Panorama
- Day 1 – Edale to Crowden
- Edale Rocks Panorama
- Day 2 – Crowden to Standedge
- Standedge Panorama
- Day 3 – Standedge to Hebden Bridge
- Blackstone Edge Panorama
- Day 4 – Hebden Bridge to Cowling
- Day 5 – Cowling to Newton Grange
- Day 6 – Newton Grange to Malham
- Day 7 – Malham to Horton in Ribblesdale
- Day 8 – Horton in Ribblesdale to Hawes
- Day 9 – Hawes to Tan Hill
- Day 10 – Tan Hill to Baldersdale
- Day 11 – Baldersdale to Langdon Beck
- Day 12 – Langdon Beck to Dufton
- High Cup Panorama
- Day 13 – Dufton to Garrigill
- Day 14 – Garrigill to Slaggyford
- Day 15 – Slaggyford to Greenhead
- Day 16 – Greenhead to Once Brewed
- Day 17 – Once Brewed to Bellingham
- Day 18 – Bellingham to Byrness
- Day 19 – Byrness to Kirk Yetholm
- The Pennine Way – done!
A walk along the South Downs Way during late September 2007, through the counties of East Sussex, West Sussex and into Hampshire.
8 Posts
Stretching 210 miles through the Scottish Border region (from Portpatrick in the west to Cockburnspath in the east), the Southern Upland Way was the first coast to coast path.
15 Posts
- Southern Upland Way
- Day 1 – Portpatrick to New Luce
- Day 2 – New Luce to Bargrennan
- Day 3 – Bargrennan to Dalry
- Day 4 – Dalry to Sanquhar
- Day 5 – Sanquhar to Wanlockhead
- Day 6 – Wanlockhead to Moffat
- Day 7 – Moffat to St Mary’s Loch
- Day 8 – St Mary’s Loch to Galashiels
- Day 9 – Galashiels to Lauder
- Day 10 – Lauder to Longformacus
- Day 11 – Longformacus to Cockburnspath
- Waymerks – ULTREIA (spoilers)
- Walked the Southern Upland Way
- Striding Arches
Over the Easter Bank Holiday (March 2008) I spent 4 days walking the 80miles of the Wealdway between Eastbourne on the Sussex coast to Gravesend on the River Thames in Kent.
5 Posts
66 miles from Croydon to Newhaven
3 Posts
A 40+ mile walk over Ashdown Forest, the home of Winnie the Pooh
3 Posts
In October 2007 I walked around the Isle of Wight, around 65 miles of coastline, inlets, chines, towns and wonderful areas of outstanding natural beauty.
5 Posts
In early 2008 I spent 10 days walking the coast of Kent. While there was a bit of bad weather, which curtailed some walking, I still managed over 150 miles.
11 Posts
- Day 1 Jury’s Gap to Dymchurch
- Day 2 Dymchurch to Dover
- Day 3 Dover to Worth
- Day 4 Worth to Margate
- Day 5 Margate to Whitstable
- Day 6 Whitstable to Sittingbourne
- Day 7 Sittingbourne to Rochester
- Day 8 Rochester to Grain
- Day 9 Grain to Gravesend
- Day 10 Greenhithe to Dartford
- Kent coast from the air, well GoogleEarth
