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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...
How do birds fly
It’s been really windy today. Sometimes so windy that I’ve not been able to walk in a straight line. Some of the path goes very near to sheer drops so it has been a little nerve racking at times but fortunately the wind has mainly been blowing off the sea so pushing...
Trust your tent
I do get nervous when the tent is moving around so much because of the wind. I’ve only had one tent collapse in my life, and that was my fault, but I think it’s had a lasting effect on me. Some of this is positive. Even when the weather is perfect I insist on pitching...
Say yes
I got some brilliant advice today although it seemed, from the story, that you should be careful who you give the advice to. It’s funny really because I only heard the advice because I’d done what the advice suggested. Let’s wind back. Chris, the campsite warden had...
Careful where you tread
There had been a little bit of rain overnight so maybe that’s why they were all over the path, but it did seem a little foolish of them. The path was complicated enough without having to dodge all these pretty snails. There must have been hundreds of them. All moving...
How convenient
I was trying to work out how long the race must have been, or will be. I’d been seeing these extra signs for quite a while. Definitely for longer than a day. So I suppose maybe it could have been a marathon distance, but a marathon in a coastal path, well that would...
The bushes are alive
I do miss all the blackberries that were lining the path when I walked it back in 2023. They were really tasty and refreshing. They were even better than the ones you could buy in the shops. This time, as I’m so early in the year, I don’t have blackberries. Instead...