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…
THE HERTFORDSHIRE WAY: Bishop’s Stortford to Hare Street
The Hertfordshire Way – Bishop’s Stortford to Hare Street: The one where we got lost – and again and again and again! Leaving Tesco’s Car Park on the outskirts of Bishop’s Stortford we soon found ourselves in the open countryside and came across a sign showing us where the Herts Way had been diverted. We…
THE HERTFORDSHIRE WAY: Widford to Bishop’s Stortford
Yet again, The Hertfordshire Way did not fail to delight! On another roasting hot day in the best summer we have had since 1976 (the year between our ‘O’ and ‘A’ levels) the two walking pilgrims reminisced as they undertook the marked 10.3 miles from Widford to Bishop’s Stortford. The last leg of the walk had…
THE HERTFORDSHIRE WAY: Hertford to Widford – “It is not raining rain you know…………”
We set off on the next leg of our 60th birthday challenge along the Hertfordshire Way from the County Town on a beautiful Spring morning. Leaving behind McMullen’s Brewery amid chatter about what beers used to be served in St Albans’ old “Blue Anchor” we soon found ourselves as two lone walkers ambling alongside Goldings Canal. So quickly…
THE WOMAN WHO WALKED THROUGH FEAR
I am delighted to announce that “The Woman Who Walked Through Fear” has now been published. I am holding my official Book Launch on 25 May 2018 from 7.00 to 8.30 pm at Flitwick Library, Beds. Tickets are £1 to include refreshments. Please contact me for further information. jackiemcall@hotmail.co.uk The book recalls my journey through…
THE HERTFORDSHIRE WAY: Broxbourne to Hertford
Cold, proud, noisy geese peppered our route along this section of the Hertfordshire Way from Broxbourne to Hertford. I always find it difficult to rouse myself from the January post-Christmas festive slump and get out walking and it was indeed fortuitous that this section coincided with a perfect winter’s walk. The day felt forlorn, melancholy…
THE HERTFORDSHIRE WAY: Cuffley to Broxbourne
There was something rather magical about this twelve mile section of The Hertfordshire Way from Cuffley to Broxbourne. The crops had been harvested and the fields had that freshly ploughed orderliness that I so love; the leaves were beginning to turn their rich regal shades of crimson and gold; sloes were dripping from the hedgerows…
