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Scottish Winter Adventure – The Plan
I'm scared! As I write this, a few days before my departure date, I'm nervous. I'm looking out of the window, and occasionally, when I dare, looking at the weather forecasts, and I do wonder if this is a wise thing to do. I'm half expecting to get off the ferry and be...
New paths to the end
There’s a bit of artistic license in my title because the last few hundred yards I had walked before, but if you consider that I’ve lived in Ratby on and off for over 50 years, to still be on paths I’d never walked in my entire life, right to the end of this...
Not my best work
I was going to title this post ‘Give my regards to Broadstreet’. It doesn’t even work though because what had triggered the idea was that I’d just walked through Broadway and managed to get confused between the two names. I was going to talk about how Paul McCartney...
OS maps are pretty good
I really can’t believe my luck. When I was ‘planning’ this trip I really didn’t put in much route planning effort except for routing the first day along the Severn. My intention was to review my route every day to ensure that it was both sensible and went through nice...
Maybe braveness wears off
I was getting really quite worried about finding somewhere to camp as the walking day was drawing to a close. I did, as I always do, eventually find somewhere. Not wanting to tempt fate but I think it’s a fairly good spot. Probably nearer to a housing estate than I’d...
Baby steps
I started this walk with a big dose of nerves. I think this was partly down to how I’d rushed my preparation and partly down to drinking too much wine with my friends last night. Jenny had warned me to pace myself, but I hadn’t seen my friends for a while and was...
Let’s go again
My Dad is a keen horse rider. He doesn’t ride so much now but when he was younger he used to take part in cross country competitions which involved some quite serious jumps made out of solid objects like hedges and fallen trees. The sort of thing that doesn’t move...
I am such a liar
First things first, I’m not lying about this walk. This whole thing hasn’t been some elaborate plot to make everyone think I’ve walked the whole SWCP when I’ve been actually sat at home hoping to profit from a book. Maybe generating all the videos and tracking by some...
It’s behind you
Most people walk the South West Coastal Path anti clockwise. That’s to say they walk from Minehead, Somerset to Poole, Dorset. Even people walking it in sections tend to go that way around, although it’s also quite common for them to just compete sections based on...