Walks
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Day 2 and 590 miles to go on the South West Coast Path
This was an Ian of a day (sorry Mr Corker couldn’t resist that). A totally superb walk in every way. Fantastic weather, excellent views , well kept paths and signposted plus bumping into Fiona the girl guide helped with the navigation to Great Hangman and beyond. I’m settled into the Harcourt Hotel in the centre…
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South West Coast Path 608 miles to go.
I had a corker of a day! I did the first two days of the South West Coast Path walk in one day including the additional strenuous bit. The GPS gave the distance travelled as 22 miles. with a vertical ascent of over 6000 feet. Started the day with a great breakfast at The Quay…
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Ready Steady Go
After finalising my 10kg of packing it was a pleasant day of travelling on trains & a bus I arrived at Minehead in the late afternoon. I’m staying at The Quay Inn, enjoying it’s free WiFi. The South West Coast Way starting sculpture is about 50 metres away and my room overlooks the sea, all…
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630 miles to go….
Tomorrow should see me venturing of to try and walk the 630 miles (1008Km) and apparently 114931 ft (35031 m) of vertical height on the South West Coast Path. So should be interesting especially in the foul weather at the moment. To honour the occasion I’ve purchased yet another pair of Scarpa Terra GTX boots, about…
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A day in the Cambridge snow
After last night’s epic (by Cambridge standards) 4″ of snow. The Cambridge Rambling Club A group walk around Histon was cancelled so Sally & I met up with Jill at the usual starting place in Harvey Road and concocted our own walk up to Coton (where we bumped into the B group) then across to Grantchester for…
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Lycian Way completed
Sally and I dedicated October to walking The Lycian Way in Turkey. In 23 walking days we managed to do 262 miles of the 318 , so we walked around 82% of the route including both ends. Section’s we missed are:- The day from Akmel to Gelemis. Although we did walk most of it the…
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Shortcut on the GR10
Tonight I christen my new birthday sleeping mat from Sally The tent is safely pitched in the garden of Yann Cornic at his gite in Saint Lizier gite in Saint Lizier Last night I was sharing a room with Michael and Cherie? In the slightly hippy gite at Esbints learning about sheep dogs and farming…
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Thick cloud on the GR10
Today I recommence my GR10 walk from the Atlantic to The Mediterrean along The Pyrenees. I stopped halfway in Luchon 4 years ago in freezing cloud & very wet! Today is not looking so good either. It should be 11 hours to get to Fos reaching 2193metres above Luchon (650metres). Now for breakfast…. Evening update!…
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First week in Madeira
One of my dreams has been to live in the winter sun, I really hate to be burning up money just to try and keep myself warm! It seems a lot more economical to live in a climate where the sun keeps you warm! However, I couldn’t live in really hot countries like Dubai etc…
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Guide to Panchasse
After my last independent trek here in Nepal, I decided to try a trek with a guide especially one who I had just created a website for 🙂 We took of from Pokhara in Buddhi’s brothers taxi to Naudader to start walking the Panchasse Circuit. Buddhi had planned it would take 2 nights and three…