The Portuguese Way: day 0
Bom dia Oporto! Distance travelled today: 60 mile drive to Liverpool Airport 1,491 mile flight to Porto 10mile train ride into the centre...
Bom dia Oporto! Distance travelled today: 60 mile drive to Liverpool Airport 1,491 mile flight to Porto 10mile train ride into the centre...
Tomorrow I travel to Portugal to start my first ever pilgrimage: a 280km trek along 'The Portuguese Way' from Porto to Santiago de...
A slightly misleading title; the route from Sabden to Whalley is indeed westwards, but this route does a bit of meandering before...
I got up this morning and followed my usual routine: bathroom, got dressed, cat duties, cup of tea and then picked up my phone. I had a...
When the lane up the hill is more puddle than path, and you're up to your ankles in mud; when the stream overflows and is running so fast...
With spring on the way: the lanes bedecked with nodding daffodils, forget-me-nots, and grape hyacinths, a clear blue sky, a stiff March...
Into March, and we set out for an impromptu visit to Richmondshire in North Yorkshire. The weather chilly but dry and the forecast good,...
March mud. After a long wet February, it feels like an age since the paths were dry enough to walk without the suck and squelch of mud....
Let's face it; when you are planning a walking trip to the Yorkshire Dales, you have plenty of choice, and in the absence of any other...
"Put on your big coats and go out to play!" Said my mam on a freezing February day. "But mam, it's cold, and those clouds look like rain....
I have read about Bolton-by-Bowland several times in magazine articles, but until now have never visited. First recorded in the Domesday...
Such a delight to get out and about after a week of rain and gales - two storms back-to-back keeping us more or less by the fireside. But...
The transformative magic of a snowy day Erasing all signs of yesterday's January A blanket of white reimagines the day As a beautiful...
We headed up to the Dales on a dry cold January day, after seeing this walk showcased online. It promised views of Ingleborough and...
A dry spell following weeks of rain always makes me reach for my boots, and today is no different. So after a wet and muddy walk...
What sort of a year was 2023? And, with all the ups and downs in a year, how do you begin to categorise it as a good or bad year? Is...
I thought I saw the sun today A tiny glimpse, a solitary ray. A silvery glimmer upon the pond A twinkle through the bracken fronds A...
I love Paul da Serra in wintertime! On a clear day, with the bluest of skies, and the plateau strewn with yellow gorse, it is...
If you want a walk with astonishing scenery from multiple viewpoints and spectacular Waterfalls, then this is the one for you. We walked...
I am sitting in the garden. It is 10am and the sky is a cloudless powder blue, the sun deliciously warm on my bare legs and arms. In the...