Tag: Walk

• Richmond Park

  

  In which we go on an urban safari, with cake

  Walking Away

  March 16, 2023

  london, Thames, Walk

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• 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

  by train, church, from london, hike, Kent, long distance, national trail, passport, Pilgrims way, stamps, Walk, walks near london, walks near me

• The Ridgeway to Princes Risborough

  

  In which I take a very slow walk along the Ridgeway and fail to be arrested under section 128 of the Serious Organised Crime Act

  Walking Away

  February 20, 2023

  Buckinghamshire, chilterns, Ridgeway, Walk

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• River Thames, Reading to Goring

  

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

  Walking Away

  February 16, 2023

  berkshire, goring, Oxfordshire, reading, Thames, Walk

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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

  Buckinghamshire, chilterns, Icknield, Ridgeway, Tring, Walk

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• 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

  Walking Away

  January 23, 2023

  Midlands, Shropshire, Walk, worcestershire

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• Wyre Forest, part one: Off the Beaten Track

  

  In which I regress to my childhood, don wellington boots and splash in the mud. The dog gets filthy.

  Walking Away

  January 19, 2023

  Midlands, Shropshire, Walk, worcestershire

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• Chilterns: Wendover Woods

  

  In which I explore the frosty hills of Wendover and discover the least navigable stretch of the Grand Union canal (unless you’re a duck)

  Walking Away

  January 15, 2023

  Walk

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• New Orleans, French Quarter

  

  In which I mooch around the Big Easy and find voodoo dolls and rectal dilators

  Walking Away

  January 7, 2023

  Louisiana, new orleans, Walk

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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.

  Walking Away

  January 3, 2023

  chilterns, Hertfordshire, Ridgeway, trig, Walk

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