{"id":14236,"date":"2015-06-15T13:58:15","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T12:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/?p=14236"},"modified":"2015-06-15T13:58:15","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T12:58:15","slug":"grand-union-canal-hike-watford-to-tring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=14236","title":{"rendered":"Grand Union Canal hike -Watford to Tring"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday 11th June<\/p>\n

\"Camping<\/a>
Camping<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I woke up at 5.30 after nearly 7 hours in the tent, slept better than I had hoped but Fitbit told me a different story of being awake 3 times for 12 mins and restless 14 times for 35 mins \ud83d\ude41 \u00a0A perfect night for camping though.<\/p>\n

I was on my way just after 6am weirdly I could see someone else was camping\u00a0100 yards away, visible from the Grand Union Canal towpath. My phone beeped, from the IFTTT recipe<\/a>, at 08.12 to say I had already walked 11,126 steps. The earliest I have ever achieved that yet \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

A great thing about starting so early is that everyone you meet is so friendly, early risers are a really cheery bunch \ud83d\ude42 I tried to get some breakfast at Hunton Bridge but the only place open was the newsagents, I plodded on and felt very smug walking under the M25 with it’s jams & noise, eventually at 8.30 I managed to find a cooked good breakfast at Sainsbury’s in Hemel Hempstead\u00a0– interesting how pubs and cafes don’t seem to be open until Noon \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

You get a real feeling of going “Up North” as the locks steadily climb up the Chiltern Hills to the highest point at Tring. The canal is more like a river with water spilling over the top of the lock gates and in fact at Berkhamstead they call it a port.<\/p>\n

\"Not<\/a>
Not camping<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At Tring i spied on the map Pendley Grange<\/a> with it’s swimming pool and luxurious offering! Calling them up they had a room cheaper than the boring place in Watford! So I decided to splurge, never having slept in a tent on consecutive nights, \u00a0so I booked the room and got the dinner there too. All very grand\u00a0except the bathroom was rather tired looking with the obligatory loose shower \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

According to Strava I <\/a>walked 17.3 miles and burnt 2,809 cals , Fitbit made it 17.93 miles from 38,831 steps burning 5,268 cals. \u00a0Moves made it 33,019 steps 17.6 miles and 1,553 cals. So a pretty wide variation in the calorie counts. But still a very pleasant day’s walking in just about ideal conditions, although I picked up a small blister on the outside of my right heel \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

The pictures are here<\/a><\/p>\n

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Thursday 11th June I woke up at 5.30 after nearly 7 hours in the tent, slept better than I had hoped but Fitbit told me a different story of being awake 3 times for 12 mins and restless 14 times for 35 mins \ud83d\ude41 \u00a0A perfect night for camping though. I was on my way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,30,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grand-union-canal","category-travel-blog","category-walks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}