Tag: long distance

• Pilgrims’ Way, Aylesford to Hollingbourne

  

  In which we walk stage 12 of the PW and Shovell fails to be redeemed

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  March 12, 2023

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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

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• London: Jubilee Walkway

  

  In which I dispense with the walk and tell you some interesting stuff about London instead

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  December 7, 2022

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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

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• Pilgrims’ Way, Halling to Aylesford

  

  Stage 11 of the Pilgrims’ Way in which I walk an unloved section along the Medway, and consider opening a tea room for sexually immoral murderous idolators, that lets dogs in.

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  November 3, 2022

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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

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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

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• Pilgrims’ Way, Oxted to Otford

  

  Stage 8 of the Pilgrims’ Way in which we miss a golden opportunity to steal Liz Truss’s acorns and I make a series of inappropriate jokes

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  October 16, 2022

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• Pilgrims’ Way, Box Hill to Merstham

  

  Stage 6 of the Pilgrims Way in which I witness a murder* *of crows

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  October 13, 2022

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• Pilgrims’ Way, Gomshall to Box Hill

  

  Stage 5b of the Pilgrims’ Way in which I immerse myself in beech woods and after some quiet contemplation decide to wish thunderbolts on a church spire.

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  October 7, 2022

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