Tag: national trail

• Pilgrims’ Way, Aylesford to Hollingbourne

  

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

  Walking Away

  March 12, 2023

  Walk

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• River Thames, Reading to Goring

  

  In which we defy February’s melancholia and go in search of life

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  February 16, 2023

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• Ridgeway and Icknield Way, Tring

  

  In which I find a man in the sky, a magical wood and a blood red battlefield, all without the use of hallucinogenics

  Walking Away

  February 8, 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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• Henley, Hambleden and the Great Wood

  

  In which we go in search of mistletoe and sponge cake and uncover the insidious creep of fake cows

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  December 31, 2022

  Oxfordshire, Thames, Walk

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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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• 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

  Kent, Medway, Pilgrims way, Walk

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