Walks
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Stiles and Gates on Offa’s Dyke
Finally managed to correctly geotag all the 744 images I took off the stiles and gates on The Offa’s Dyke Walk, A few stiles are missing from near Prestatyn (before the idea came to me) and some gates in the early stages are also missing, when I was undecided as to whether they should be…
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Offa’s Dyke 1 week into the walk
Exactly one week ago I set of walking Offa’s Dyke on the English / Welsh border. I’ve been blessed with good weather so today I find myself in Hay on Wye with 139 miles walked, according my GPS and another 50.5 to do according to the Harvey Map I’m using. The scenery is magnificent heavily…
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Offas Dyke Path
Today finds me waking up in Cloud Hill, a late 60s architect designed house, lots of plywood beams and clean open spaces. I’ve now walked 76km of the 282km path and had my leg over 100 stiles. So far from Prestatyn it’s been very hilly but today’s walk from south of Llangollen to Four Crosses…
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Cumbrian Way and Everytrail
Finally, one week later, I can publish our trail and photographs for our Cumbrian Way weekend. Sally and I are both quite proud that we managed over 60 miles and 8400ft of ascent in three days walking. The weather was in our favour being cool and sunny most of the time. The reason for the…
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Ickworth figure of eight walk
Today’s Cambridge Rambling Clubs “A” team walk should have been led by Larry unfortunately he was indisposed so Jill took over at the last minute, hence the couple of blips on the GPS trail! The walk was designed as a figure of eight with Ickworth Hall in the centre, acting as a rendezvous point for…
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Cambridge Rambling Club – Waterbeach to Lode
Today’s Cambridge Rambling Clubs ‘A’ team walk was led by Rita. Nine of us set off from Waterbeach village green heading for Anglesey abbey via Lode. At last its warming up and the ground is drying out with a few buds beginning to form on the hedgerows. Vast hordes of people had descended on Anglesey…
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Cambridge Rambling Club – Audley End ramble
Today’s ramble with the Cambridge Rambling Club A team started further afield 🙂 The start was at Audley End, Vera led 13 of us, at a cracking pace, across the rolling Essex countryside to The Langleys were we stopped for our sandwiches outside the The Bull. Tea was taken alongside the stream in the very…
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Muddy Boot day
After my hectic night with Sally (see her posts here and here) plus stopping to take a snapshot of one of the three police cars wrecked on Regent Street we didn’t make it back home till 1am ish. Then today was up and away to be at Cambridge Rambling Clubs ‘A’ walk led by Carolyn…
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My Odd Job day
Today was repair Sally‘s bed day 🙂 Necessitated by her 6ft+ lad falling on her foot board when playing hide and seek 🙂 and cruelly snapping it in two. Good excuse for me to try out my new Erbauer ERB800RL all purpose saw – worked fine although I think it may be to flimsy for…
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Cambridge -Anglesey abbey circular walk
Today’s walk was a 17 or so mile circular tour from Cambridge along the tow path to Baits Bite lock and then across to Horningsea. We then ventured across Quy Fen to Anglesey Abbey to see the Himalayan Siver Birch trees resplendent with their jet washed bark 🙂 We returned alongside the lovely mill stream…