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...
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To be a Pilgrim
Tomorrow I travel to Portugal to start my first ever pilgrimage: a 280km trek along 'The Portuguese Way' from Porto to Santiago de...
West to Whalley
A slightly misleading title; the route from Sabden to Whalley is indeed westwards, but this route does a bit of meandering before...
Smart Phone - Smart life; truth or contradiction?
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...
Blue sky hope: a poem
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...
High Road to Higham
With spring on the way: the lanes bedecked with nodding daffodils, forget-me-nots, and grape hyacinths, a clear blue sky, a stiff March...
Richmondshire and Swaledale: March 2024
Into March, and we set out for an impromptu visit to Richmondshire in North Yorkshire. The weather chilly but dry and the forecast good,...
Mud and Murmurations
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....
Gordale Scar and Malham Cove: February 2024
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...
Big Coats: a poem
"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....
Bolton-by-Bowland: January 2024
I have read about Bolton-by-Bowland several times in magazine articles, but until now have never visited. First recorded in the Domesday...
Downham - Sawley circular: January 2023
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...
Snow: a poem
The transformative magic of a snowy day Erasing all signs of yesterday's January A blanket of white reimagines the day As a beautiful...
Thieves Moss from Clapham in the Yorkshire Dales: January 2024
We headed up to the Dales on a dry cold January day, after seeing this walk showcased online. It promised views of Ingleborough and...
Fairsnape Fell: January 2024
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...
2023 - a synopsis
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...
Hide and Seek: a poem
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...
A path of unequal halves: PR13
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...
Clouds and Waterfalls: Caminho do Pináculo e Folhadal
If you want a walk with astonishing scenery from multiple viewpoints and spectacular Waterfalls, then this is the one for you. We walked...
Winter on Madeira: a glorious contradiction
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...
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