Here is the slideshow of my recent walk from Boston to Barmouth
280 miles
18.5 days
Click on the link.
Lives of great men will remind us
We can make our lives sublime
And,departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o’er life’s solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.
Longfellow
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I saw a jolly hunter
With a jolly gun
Walking in the country
In the jolly sun.
In the jolly meadow
Sat a jolly hare.
Saw the jolly hunter.
Took jolly care.
Hunter jolly eager-
Sight of jolly prey.
Forgot gun pointing
Wrong jolly way.
Jolly hunter jolly head
Over heels gone.
Jolly old safety catch
Not jolly on.
Bang went the jolly gun.
Hunter jolly dead.
Jolly hare got clean away.
Jolly good, I said.
Charles Causey - (24 August 1917 – 4 November 2003) was a Cornish poet, schoolmaster and writer. His work is noted for its simplicity and directness and for its associations with folklore, especially when linked to his native Cornwall.
EIGHT BOOKS are available; Each one has a day to day journal and many colour photos.
Conrad Walks Land’s End to John o’Groats (77 days - 106 pages)
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Conrad Walks The Broads to The Lakes (28 days - 92 pages)
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Conrad Walks The GR10 Pyrenean traverse, Atlantic to Mediterranean - (52 days - 107 pages)
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Conrad Walks The GR5 - Lake Geneva to Mediterranean - (35 days - 113 pages)
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Conrad Walks The French Gorges - (35 days through Provence, the Ardeche, and the Cevennes - 99 pages)
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Conrad Walks Wales - (58 days round the whole Welsh border - 237 pages)
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Conrad Walks Coast, River and Canals - (SE Coast, Severn Way, and various canals - 157 pages)
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NEW! Conrad Walks Summer 2014 - Viking Way, Marilyns: Lleyn peninsula, Northumberland and Scottish Borders.
SW Coast Path, Two Moors Way (234 pages)
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A lovely record of your walk. I just love your photographs, along with your writings you've captured the very essence of a long distance walk :-)
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed this your E to W walk and the slide show - the Shropshire hills were a revelation - but never been a fan of mid-Wales - albeit through fog and rain - but your pics make it look more interesting than I recall . . . .
ReplyDeleteI can understand your comment about this route being more of the England you relate to, compared with the Cotswold/Southlands version - you can probably now understand why Bucks was never a good base for even a quite distant 'driving day' walking - does not satisfy a soul bred in northern lands
JJ - thanks. Mission accomplished.
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gimmer - The Welsh coast is as good as anything in the UK for scenery and ambience - the mountain interior is similar, but the lesser rolling hills are more of an acquired taste, which has steadily grown on me.
Thoroughly enjoyed the tales from your walk - with the nights drawing in then there is little to observe on the commute home so your stories make the evening travel appear to go so much quicker.
ReplyDeleteYou are covering areas that I am not at all familiar with which makes the stories, for me, more interesting.
Many thanks
Frank Bellairs - welcome to the blog. I reckon I have a number of readers who refrain to comment, but comments provide motivation to continue. You mention your commute but I have no idea whether you enjoy your occupation but I got early retirement from a job which was reasonably rewarding in 1994, but i have certainly enjoyed the years since. Thanks for your kind words.
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