Long Distance Paths
Speyside Way – Day 7
20th May 2022: Kincraig to Newtonmore – 13.5 miles I met another of my fellow guests last night as I was putting a bottle of water in the little communal
23 May, 2022
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Long Distance Paths
Speyside Way – Day 6
19th May 2022: Boat of Garten to Kincraig – 13 miles It seems I jumped to premature (and incorrect) conclusions last night, and in my grump I bundled Fraoch Lodge
19 May, 2022
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Long Distance Paths
Speyside Way – Day 5
18th May 2022: Grantown to Boat of Garten – 11 miles The Ben Mhor Hotel is cheap. It’s £42.50 for a single en-suite room, so almost half the price of
18 May, 2022
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Long Distance Paths
Speyside Way – Day 4
17th May 2022: Cragganmore to Grantown – 15 miles Day 4 on a long distance walk is when stuff begins to hurt. I’ve done plenty of two day walks this
17 May, 2022
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Long Distance Paths
Speyside Way – Day 3
16th May 2022: Dufftown to Cragganmore – 15 miles I imagine today’s walk report is going to be quite short. Despite the route only being a couple of miles short
16 May, 2022
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Long Distance Paths
Speyside Way – Day 2
15th May 2022: Fochabers to Dufftown – 17.5 miles I have the full set, all nine of them: 10, 11, 12, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6. I remember
15 May, 2022
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Long Distance Paths
Speyside Way – Day 1
14th May 2022: Buckie to Fochabers – 11 miles Oh my goodness, I’m in post-walk heaven! I’ve had one of the best showers I’ve ever experienced outside my own home,
14 May, 2022
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Campervan
Looking Behind (and Ahead)
Looking Behind This time last year we were just coming out of what was hopefully the final lockdown in England – I was also just coming out the back of
22 April, 2022
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Long Distance Paths
Cross Borders Drove Road – Day 5
16th June 2021: Selkirk to Hawick – 14 miles I escaped in to the murk and mizzle at exactly 7am – unlike the plucky soldiers and airmen who escaped from
16 June, 2021
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Long Distance Paths
Cross Borders Drove Road – Day 4
15th June 2021: Innerleithen to Selkirk – 14 miles Day 4 has just snatched the ‘best day of the walk’ title from day 2! Glorious paths, only 1/2 a mile
15 June, 2021
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Long Distance Paths
Cross Borders Drove Road – Day 3
14th June 2021: Peebles to Innerleithen – 11 miles I found the bed a bit lumpy last night and the pillows were hard enough that I have a sore ear
14 June, 2021
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Long Distance Paths
Cross Borders Drove Road – Day 2
13th June 2021: West Linton to Peebles – 14 miles Well that was one helluva good day’s walking! It’s the best day’s walking I can remember for a long time.
13 June, 2021
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Long Distance Paths
Cross Borders Drove Road – Day 1
12th June 2021: Little Vantage to West Linton – 10 miles I’ve been trying to walk this path for 2 years – in 2019 I had to cancel all my
12 June, 2021
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General
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
I guess an awful lot of walkers and outdoor enthusiasts are thinking the same thing as me at the moment… should I carry on with the holiday I have planned, or should I put it on the back burner and pick it up later in the year?
19 March, 2020
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Long Distance Paths
New Year, New Me!
A Litany of Failures! Regular readers will know I had a pretty shocking time last year when it came to long distance paths in particular and walking in general. I
22 February, 2020
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Walks
Suilven
The weather was forecast to be perfect today – clear skies, warm, no wind, but just enough breeze to keep the midge at bay! And so it turned out as
7 September, 2019
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Walks
Sandwood Bay
I had an excellent weekend away with my brother and a friend. We spent three excellent nights in the wonderful Inchnadamph Hotel, with the main target being an ascent of
6 September, 2019
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Camping
Fort William to Bealach a’ Chaorainn
This should be a Cape Wrath Trail report, broken into 7 or 8 different days, but if you’ve read my previous post you’ll understand why it’s not. For those that
1 June, 2019
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