Tag: hiker

• Wyre Forest, part two: On the Beaten Track

  

  In which I listen for ghost trains on the disused railway and a buzzard brings me home under a grey and rainy sky

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  January 23, 2023

  Midlands, Shropshire, Walk, worcestershire

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• The Ridgeway: Ivinghoe Beacon

  

  In which we take an ice white walk through the woods to start the Ridgeway, and find golden nymphs dancing in the trees on Britain’s oldest trail.

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  January 3, 2023

  chilterns, Hertfordshire, Ridgeway, trig, Walk

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• Great Missenden to Wendover

  

  In which we ramble through beechwoods and over hills in warm clothes, and meet Britain’s creepiest cows.

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  December 28, 2022

  Buckinghamshire, chilterns, great missenden, Ridgeway, Walk, wendover

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• The Isis (Thames), The Cherwell and The Oxford Canal

  

  In which I ramble along the river past the dreaming spires and end up two feet deep in it

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  December 15, 2022

  chilterns, Oxford, Oxfordshire

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• Edinburgh, Arthur’s Seat

  

  In which we attempt to give ourselves diabetes on top of an inner city mountain

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  November 23, 2022

  edinburgh, scotland, Walk

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• Northumberland, Low Newton to Craster

  

  In which we follow the waft of kippers to Craster and find our car at the end of a rainbow

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  November 19, 2022

  coast, coastal, northumberland, Walk

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• Northumberland: Alnmouth to Warkworth

  

  In which I relax by watching the dog go beserk on the beach and enjoy my favourite kind of landform, the sand dune

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  November 9, 2022

  alnmouth, northumberland, Walk

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• London: The Parkland Walk

  

  In which I am surrounded by superstition on an invisible railway: fairies in the bushes, and an abandoned station waiting for a train that will never come.

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  October 31, 2022

  city, london, Walk

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• Pilgrims’ Way, Wrotham to Halling

  

  Stage 10 of the Pilgrims’ Way in which I walk for thousands of years from neolithic to industrial times

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  October 28, 2022

  Kent, Medway, Pilgrims way, Walk

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• Pilgrims’ Way, Otford to Wrotham

  

  Stage 9 of the Pilgrims Way in which I have ringing in my ears which for once isn’t tinnitus and consider foraging and living in a ditch

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  October 22, 2022

  Kent, Pilgrims way, Walk

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