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Looking ahead into 2019
I wrote a similar post to this one, in March last year, setting out my plans for the coming year (see here) and I didn’t do too badly in the
8 February, 2019
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Southern Upland Way 2015 – Exit
I left the Southern Upland Way last night, at Sanquhar, at the end of Day 6. I posted this tweet from the train station. In some ways it was a
9 May, 2015
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Southern Upland Way 2015 – Day 6
8th May 2015 – Stroanpatrick to Sanquhar: 18.7 mls I didn’t really expect a third day of good weather, so it was a bonus that I walked in sunshine for
8 May, 2015
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Southern Upland Way 2015 – Day 5
7th May 2015 – Clatteringshaws Loch to Stroanpatrick: 15.5 mls Although the day was perfectly acceptable in terms of weather, it was a bit worse than forecast, so ended
7 May, 2015
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Southern Upland Way 2015 – Day 4
6th May 2015 – Bargrennan to Clatteringshaws Loch: 17.5 mls A day of better weather than forecast is always something to be thankful for and such was today. Today’s walk,
6 May, 2015
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Southern Upland Way 2015 – Day 3
5th May 2015 – New Luce to Bargrennan: 19.1 mls Today’s walk is brought to you by the word “puddle” and by the sound your legs make when you walk
5 May, 2015
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Southern Upland Way 2015 – Day 2
4th May 2015 – Stranraer to New Luce: 14.2 mls Today was fantastic! A breeze marginally stronger than I would have liked was the only thing preventing me from calling
4 May, 2015
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Southern Upland Way 2015 – Day 1
3rd May 2015 – Portpatrick to Stranraer: 9.6 mls Today’s walk is brought to you by the word “dreich” which is a proper Scottish word hijacked by us southern softies
3 May, 2015
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Southern Upland Way 2015 – Day 0
2nd May 2015 – Home to Stranraer: 259 mls, 8 hrs There are some advantages to travelling First Class and I was hoping to be able to use a
2 May, 2015
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Gear
Southern Upland Way 2015 – Kit
I was unsure whether I’d do a kit posting for this year’s walk, but I looked back at the one I did for the 2013 walk and some of the
21 April, 2015
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Southern Upland Way 2015 – Route
The countdown to my Southern Upland Way continues. I’ll be heading out five weeks on Saturday and using a tortuous series of trains and buses to reach my starting point.
26 March, 2015
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Southern Upland Way 2015 – Transport
“It really shouldn’t be this difficult!” A phrase I kept repeating while trying to book rail tickets for my Southern Upland Way walk in May. Public transport needs to be
23 February, 2015
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Southern Upland Way 2015 – Planning
I’d walked about a mile or so out of Beattock, heading for the Ettrick Hills and as I reached an old cattle feeder standing rusting beside the track, I knew
11 February, 2015
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Southern Upland Way 2015
I spent last weekend deciding upon my long distance path for 2015! It was significantly easier than the planning I’ve had to in recent years, simply because I’m returning to the
11 February, 2015
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Southern Upland Way 2015
I spent last weekend planning my long distance path for 2015! It was significantly easier than the planning I’ve had to in recent years, simply because I’m returning to the
21 January, 2015
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Southern Upland Way – reloaded
I’ve revamped my Southern Upland Way journal from 2013. It now has more photos from the walk and I’ve brought together all the planning posts and walking posts into one place.
27 July, 2014
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Southern Upland Way 2013
The Decision Originally written: Wednesday, December 12th, 2012 I think it probably took me longer to decide on this year’s long distance path, than it has taken me in any
13 June, 2014
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General
I'm Back!
Regular readers may have noticed, it’s been very quiet around here recently and for that I must apologise, however, that’s about to change and I should be getting back into
20 August, 2013
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