The world is round, so travellers tell,
And straight through reach the track,
Trudge on, trudge on, ’twill all be well,
The way will guide one back. – A E Housman, ‘A Shropshire Lad’
Land’s End to John O’Groats
Photo Essay: Trail signs
‘Earth hath not anything to show more fair’
Monday, 9 May
Now the various tints of green mount one over another up the hanging woods of Penllan above the dingle. Over the level line of brilliant larch green rises the warmer golden green brown of the oaks. But the most brilliant green of all is the young green of the beeches. The brilliance of the beeches is almost beyond belief. – Francis Kilvert
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Guest Day
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. – Isaak Walton
Rest Day Photo Essay
Hay Bluff
…within our labyrinth on our dark mountain. – David Jones, ‘The Tutelar of the Place’
Mountains Green and Pleasant Pastures… and Mwd
Bwrw hen wragedd y ffyn – Welsh proverb [it’s raining old wives and walking sticks]
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Et In Arcadia Sumus
Row, row, row your boat, / Gently down the stream, / Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, / Life is but a dream! – Traditional
Rest Day Photo Essay
A Typology of Gate Fastenings
Farewell to the South
… The north polar star, which keeps its place, and all the stars turn towards it. – Confucius
Walking The Landscape 