Posted on 17 May 2012 (No comments yet)
"Are you here for the Chilterns walk?" asked a pair women, somehow correctly guessing that the two people stood in front of them at Marleybone station were also walkers. Maybe the hiking boots and rucksacks gave the game away.
"No, but they might be," I replied, pointing to a group of similarly clad people who were also loitering in the station.
Either the two women had already approached that group, or they'd decided that the group didn't look like the kind of people they'd like to be associated with, as they politely thanked us and headed off in completely the opposite direction.
They'd got something about us right though. We were off for a walk in the Chilterns. It just was highly unlikely that we'd be doing the same one. Ours would be no gentle day walk with a pub lunch and a stop for tea before heading back home. Oh no. We were to do something grander. A two day epic no less. For we were about to complete an 87 mile journey. We were off to finish walking the Ridgeway.
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Posted on 15 May 2012 (2 comments)
Like many walkers, I have a set of Wainwright's guides on my bookshelf. Seven in total. As well as Wainwright's Pennine Way Companion and his A Coast to Coast Walk, there's five pictorial guides to the Lake District.
They're all a variety of ages. There's two, recently published second edition Pictorial Guides (the Far Eastern and the Western Fells), both recently published and both spanking new. Then there's the 2003 edition of A Coast to Coast Walk; hastily updated by the publishers with alerations in a jarring serif font sitting next to the neat writing of AW. Oh and a slightly earlier Pictorial Guide to the Southern Fells from about 2002.
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Posted on 13 May 2012 (No comments yet)
But I first walked over the Seven Sisters on a gloomy February day in 2009. It rained. And the coast was still beautiful.
Posted on 10 May 2012 (2 comments)
I recently had an email that posed me an interesting question. They were hoping to do a long distance walk in 2013 but weren't sure which to do.
Posted on 7 May 2012 (2 comments)
If you're a regular visitor here then you might notice some changes to the website. On the other hand, frankly I wouldn't be surprised if you don't.
Posted on 6 May 2012 (No comments yet)
I wrote recently about my favourite coastal walk being over the Seven Sisters. And this seemed like a good enough reason to spend the whole of May showing you some photographs from that walk here on A Sunday Picture.
Posted on 3 May 2012 (No comments yet)
Hold on to your camp food because Rambling Man is taste testing again!
