tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post1497582030969331989..comments2024-03-28T13:06:29.793+00:00Comments on conradwalks: Day 19 (last day) - Withypool to Lynmouth - Sunday 21st Sept.Sir Hughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-1197351041461255132014-09-23T07:00:43.799+01:002014-09-23T07:00:43.799+01:00Hitchhiking. Very much a sometime thing. I have hi...Hitchhiking. Very much a sometime thing. I have hitchhiked for whole holidays round the UK but the worst day ever was trying to get from Capel Curig to Chester, passed by thousands of cars on the coast road. But then I reflect. I have only once picked up a hitchhiker and that because I recognised his motives (he wore an RAF uniform). These days newspaper headlines don't encourage picking up.<br /><br />Try and imagine what you look like to a car driver. Not the sturdily independent (And yet you're asking for a lift!) walker with honourable intentions, but someone who looks eccentric. Who is by most standards eccentric. And there are few Brits willing to accommodate what they perceive as a near madman. As much as anything it's the imagined monologue they fear. "It is an ancient mariner..."Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-17424369044947439272014-09-22T16:11:52.537+01:002014-09-22T16:11:52.537+01:00Gimmer - I'll have a look at that when I get b...Gimmer - I'll have a look at that when I get back (on the train at the mo). Wouldn't grumble at visiting the Barle, from what I saw it's a damned attractive river.<br />I don't know about luck. May be that I can put on a sorry for myself face when hitch hiking, but it was a close thing yesterday. But, if that guy hadn't turned up something else would have. I haven't had to sleep under a hedge yet.<br /><br />----------------<br /><br />Alan R - so have I.Sir Hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-31303586638652768292014-09-22T11:58:34.224+01:002014-09-22T11:58:34.224+01:00Its been a fantastic journey and i have enjoyed ev...Its been a fantastic journey and i have enjoyed every mile.AlanRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07180571503542781921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-79385920296854685152014-09-22T10:16:28.073+01:002014-09-22T10:16:28.073+01:00luck strikes again - you must give lessons to the ...luck strikes again - you must give lessons to the rest of us!<br />the Devon County Council website describes a so-called Exe Valley Way - a head to toe route (or v/v) which curiously goes off stream after a short distance to join the Barle at Simonsbath all the way to Brushford where it rejoins the Exe (or goes to to Exeford from S/b for a quick look before back to Withypool!) - the lower valley after Brushford looks about as pretty as you can get but not quite the True Path you envisaged. No explanation provided for this non-event. Maybe you will need a machete, ropes/ladders and waders. More study required.gimmernoreply@blogger.com