On a morning in early August 2019, A and I began the penultimate leg of our 60th Birthday Pilgrimage along the Hertfordshire Way. We had completed the last leg at Little Wymondley but having considered the busyness of the A602 and following the guidebook’s suggestion we asked the long-suffering Red Hyundai driver to drop…
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THE HERTFORDSHIRE WAY: Wallington to Little Wymondley
In March 2016, my friend and I set out to walk the Hertfordshire Way in sections hoping to complete the entire route by the time of our 60th birthdays. Today on our antepenultimate (thank you, Mr Lucas!) leg we celebrated my Sixtieth, discussing the passing of time referencing dandelion clocks, the privilege of being Nanas…
THE HERTFORDSHIRE WAY: Royston to Wallington
The temperature was already in the early 20s as we set out from Royston on Easter Saturday on the next leg of our Hertfordshire Way 60th Birthday Pilgrimage. We began at the Royse Stone, standing at the crossing point of the Icknield Way and Ermine Street and soon left the bustling town centre and found…
THE HERTFORDSHIRE WAY: Hare Street to Royston
Two years and three weeks since we started our 60th Birthday Pilgrimage along the Hertfordshire Way we are reaching the North Eastern corner and beginning our journey back to our starting place in St Albans. Each section of the trail has been different and rewarding in its own way and today’s 13 mile stretch from…
WALKING BY THE FLEET IN SPRING
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WALKING BY THE FLEET IN SPRING
For several weeks I had been feeling the call to be in Hardy’s Wessex and this delightful circular walk from Fleet to Langton Herring and back alongside the tidal lagoon was an apt reminder of what I had been so deeply missing. I have lost count of the times I have visited Dorset and can’t…
THE PILGRIMS’ WAY – Revisited. WATT’S GALLERY AND ARTISTS’ VILLAGE
One of the many places I hoped to revisit when undertaking my gratitude walk along the Pilgrims’ Way in 2016 was the Watts Gallery and Artists Village. I had stopped there on day 4 of my pilgrimage for a cup of tea in the café and took the time then to go slightly off-route to wander up to the Watts Memorial…
THE TINKER’S TRAIL – HARLINGTON WALKS
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THE TINKER’S TRAIL – HARLINGTON WALKS
Where to walk near Harlington on this cold and wet morning? Ah, February, a time of hunkering down, sheltering from the rain but yet, hope. Always hope that Spring will soon be here. I was so grateful that I roused myself from the couch on a damp and dismal day to take this four and…
THE WESSEX RIDGEWAY: From the Stones to the Wheel – Index of Posts
The Wessex Ridgeway – Avebury to Abbotsbury In September 2019 I am planning to walk from the stone circles at Avebury (“The Stones”) to St Catherine’s Chapel in Abbotsbury. St Catherine being the Third Century martyr tortured and broken on a Wheel (“The Wheel”). The route will take me from Wiltshire, across Salisbury Plain and Cranbourne Chase…
