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Land's End to John O'Groats

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  • Our Route: Map Overviews
  • John O’Groats
  • A short walk to a Proclaimers gig
  • A fisherman’s paradise
  • In which we tick off an item from the Bucket List
  • Back in the Wild: the Strathvaitch and Alladale estates
  • A brief update
  • The Longest Day: Summer Solstice on the Great Glen Way
  • Slip, heave, throw: The Great Glen Way
  • Escape
  • Sitting it out
  • A Bridge Too Far
  • Fort William and the end of the West Highland Way
  • The Mighty Heart of Glencoe
  • A Big Country
  • Loch Lomond Part the Second: rocks, roots and water
  • The Bonnie Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond
  • The hills, the hills
  • Engineering Icons of the 2nd and 21st Centuries on the John Muir Trail
  • The Union Canal
  • The Elastic Central Belt at full stretch
  • The Old Drove Road
  • Feeling low up high
  • St Cuthbert’s Way
  • 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Farewell, England, Fàilte gu Alba 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
  • Kielder Forest
  • Hadrian’s Wall and the Bogbaric Land Beyond
  • Train track/ Rain track
  • Milestones
  • Cumbria
  • Leaving the Dales
  • Rain in the Dales
  • Tingle Factor: Malham Cove
  • Hail Fellow, Well Met in the Western Dales
  • The Last of the Wuthering Heights
  • Dry Moors: Marsden to Hebden Bridge
  • Rest Day Photo Quiz: Spot the Spoor!
  • God’s Own Country
  • High Moorland: a Sense of the Scope of the End-to-End trail
  • Stately Homes and Millstone Grit
  • Dovedale: Decisively out of the Midlands
  • Battle
  • A certain circular aspect to the Staffordshire Way
  • From green and pleasant land to dark satanic mills?
  • On Wenlock Edge
  • Photo Essay: Trail signs
  • ‘Earth hath not anything to show more fair’
  • Guest Day
  • Hay Bluff
  • Mountains Green and Pleasant Pastures… and Mwd
  • Et In Arcadia Sumus
  • Rest Day Photo Essay
  • Farewell to the South
  • Waterland and Big Skies
  • Head up and looking around
  • Exmoor and beyond
  • A May Day Hop up onto Exmoor
  • Saltmarsh
  • Dull
  • Walking under the wind
  • Weather Eye
  • April Showers
  • Adventures
  • Sand and Water
  • How to walk 34 km: lessons we learnt today
  • Pasture and Pavements
  • Cornwall gets out the bunting
  • The Odyssey Begins
  • Saying Goodbye
  • The Day of Fear
  • An Army Marches on its Stomach
  • …in corpore sano
  • Mens sana…
  • The Map is not the Territory
  • Why Land’s End to John O’Groats?

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Dull

My spirits grow dull, and fain I would beguile
The tedious day with sleep. – Player King, Hamlet

Sea blurs into sky

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Posted on April 29, 2019April 29, 2019Categories Uncategorized2 Comments on Dull

Walking under the wind

…We just sit tight while wind dives / And strafes invisibly. Space is a salvo. / We are bombarded with the empty air. / Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear. – Seamus Heaney, ‘Storm on the Island‘

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Posted on April 27, 2019April 27, 2022Categories Uncategorized8 Comments on Walking under the wind

Weather Eye

I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty. – Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

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Posted on April 26, 2019April 27, 2019Categories Uncategorized14 Comments on Weather Eye

Adventures

As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen. – Winnie the Pooh

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Posted on April 24, 2019April 25, 2019Categories Uncategorized8 Comments on Adventures

Sand and Water

To see the world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower – William Blake, ‘Auguries of Innocence‘

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Posted on April 23, 2019April 26, 2022Categories Uncategorized1 Comment on Sand and Water

How to walk 34 km: lessons we learnt today

You have feet in your shoes. – Dr Seuss

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Posted on April 23, 2019April 23, 2022Categories Uncategorized15 Comments on How to walk 34 km: lessons we learnt today

Pasture and Pavements

I’d love to retire somewhere like Winchester, where you have one foot on the pavement but a sense of being in the country as well. – Hugh Bonneville

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Posted on April 21, 2019April 21, 2019Categories Uncategorized6 Comments on Pasture and Pavements

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