Tag: walks near me

• Balcombe circular

  

  In which I climb the hill of contentment, then descend into the valley of despair

  Walking Away

  March 20, 2023

  Sussex, Walk

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• 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

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• 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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• Old Bilton and Nidd Gorge

  

  In which I revisit my second favourite river and search deperately for that little flash of electric blue

  Walking Away

  February 12, 2023

  knaresborough, Nidd, Walk, Yorkshire

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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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• South Downs Way, Ditchling Beacon

  

  In which I have an elemental experience with wind

  Walking Away

  February 4, 2023

  South Downs, Sussex, Walk

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• Hartslock and the Great Chalk Wood

  

  In which I undress in public, a car tries to run me down and I have an altercation with a jogger in the peaceful English countryside

  Walking Away

  January 31, 2023

  chilterns, goring, Oxfordshire, Thames, Walk

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• Knaresborough Evening Ramble

  

  In which I am haunted by the ghosts of a medieval hermit and a witch but I am not petrified

  Walking Away

  January 27, 2023

  knaresborough, Walk, Yorkshire

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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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