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January 18, 2021
Coronavirus Update The state of affairs : January 2021 I had always intended this posting (Part 3) to have detailed the practical training plan that my daughter and I have been following since October last year. I can say that we did achieve our first target for the walking training which was to have completed […]
January 8, 2021
The Challenges. Why am I doing this? Why oh why on Earth am I doing this very loooooooooooong walk? Is it because I want people to think of me as some sort of Superman if I complete the challenge? Am I trying to prove something to myself?..that I can still do today what I could […]
December 21, 2020
Introduction This walk is scheduled for the weekend of May 2/3, 2021. I will be walking it with my daughter. It is one of a series of ‘Ultra – Challenge’ events that are held in a normal year in various parts of England. It is a walk of 106 km (almost 66 miles). The objective […]
December 13, 2020
A wonderful day’s walk. Muruzabal to Villatuerta The night passed by as Camino nights do, for those of us who have lived to survive them. To give some idea of the sort of thing that was in my mind during those early early hours (las madrugadas) of that Camino morning here’s what I texted to […]
November 20, 2020
The best tasting pizza since 1971! Cizur Manor to Muruzabal I awoke to another sunny morning. A fabulous start to the day. Plenty of time for a leisurely breakfast for once. When I went back to make final preparations to leave, one of the ladies in the American Seniors group was struggling to pack her […]
November 1, 2020
Don’t go chasing rainbows! Larrasoaña to Cizur Menor A fairly early breakfast was had in a well laid out dining area and there were only a small number of peregrinos to share it with. This is the benefit of having spent the night in a quite small but very nice hostel. I would well recommend […]
October 24, 2020
¡Todo Completo! Roncesvalles to Larrasoaña I awoke to the noise of the three persons closest to where I was sleeping moving around, their darkened silhouettes just about visible against the less dark background of the dormitory. A glance at my phone indicated it was 04:30. They seemed to be in the process of packing up […]
September 14, 2020
Yorkshire As Yorkshire is the county where I was born and lived until 1971 it was fairly obvious that this would be the first area to be explored once the family obtained its first car and we became aware that there was an alternative to having to go to the coast for recreation. Yorkshire is […]
September 2, 2020
The 44 year wait comes to an end St Jean to Roncesvalles It was approximately 05:45 when I awoke. It was still quite dark. I had arranged to have breakfast at 07:30, intending to set off at about 08:00. Outside I could hear what I thought was rain. It seemed to be quite heavy and […]
August 12, 2020
July 1975 This Long Distance Footpath (LDP) is 271 miles in length. It links the village of Edale in the county of Derbyshire with the village of Kirk Yetholm just over the border in Scotland. The vast majority of walkers/hikers do it in a northerly direction, so for most people Kirk Yetholm in Scotland is […]