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Saturday, 30 August 2008

Car Parking: Is Nowhere Safe?

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As I mentioned, we parked our car for our outing just beyond the end of the dead-end road from Mosedale, past Swineside. We had nearly pulle...
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Friday, 29 August 2008

The Lakes: Friday Morning

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The first thing that I noticed this morning was that there was a certain brightness. Peering out of the top of the tent, I could see a defin...
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The Lakes: Thursday Afternoon

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By the time we had wended our way up north, concluded our business in George Fisher and stocked up with suitable food at Booths, it was appr...
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The Dry Legs Problem

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When we finally returned home some weeks after the end of our LEJOG expedition, we needed to clean and tidy the house in a bit of a hurry, i...

The Plan

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Looking at a calendar last week we realised that we were running out of time before our next walk to pop up to Keswick. Mick had two pairs o...
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A Lot Of Words

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We're back from our flying Lakes trip and so I sat down to type a short trip report. Hours of typing later, and I seem to have waffled a...
Wednesday, 27 August 2008

Random Thoughts (and Rants)

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Train Tickets : Our train tickets for our C2C and WHW trips arrived last weekend. I’ve ordered a lot of train tickets from thetrainline in t...
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Saturday, 23 August 2008

Stop Press: We Went For A Walk!

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After a month of studiously turning my muscles to lard, and with it in the forefront of my mind that it’s just a few weeks until we set off ...
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Monday, 18 August 2008

LEJOG: THAT house

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Back in January, Alan Sloman , trawling through his LEJOG photos, noticed that one of his bore a remarkable similarity to pictures he’d seen...
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Sunday, 17 August 2008

LEJOG: The Songs

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I’m sure that it’s quite normal when out walking, pack on your back, to have a song going in your head. Whilst having a such a song is pleas...
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Plans and Tickets

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So far this year I have walked just shy of 1500 miles, which has been spread out over the months as shown in the graph above. There’s someth...
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Monday, 11 August 2008

Over A Month Too Late

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For most of the three-month duration of our walk, lunch usually involved either cheese or fish. Edam, in particular, proved to be well suite...
Sunday, 10 August 2008

The LEJOG Awards

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In the last few days of our LEJOG jaunt* we amused ourselves for a couple of evenings playing ‘best XXX’ and ‘worst XXX’. The result was the...
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Thursday, 7 August 2008

Our LEJOG Blog - A More Readable Version

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Although the Blog was a great way to share a journal of our LEJOG trip as we went along, it’s not really very friendly for anyone wanting to...
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The Pocketmail as a Mobile Blogging Device

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Peewiglet posted a comment on my original posting about my mobile blogging device , asking whether the Pocketmail worked well for me on our...
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Wednesday, 6 August 2008

LEJOG Reflections: Route and Bouncy Shoes

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If I was to do it again, what would I do differently? It’s a question that quite a few people have asked. On the subject of the route, I’m q...
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Tuesday, 5 August 2008

The Next Big Walk?

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It’s an easy leap to make. You’re listening to the Cape Wrath Podcasts and thinking that you’d like to go and walk that walk. You’re looking...

Poorliness and Presents

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Summer colds are horrible. It’s just not the right time of year for such poorliness. The cold didn’t know that it was the wrong season, and ...
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Saturday, 2 August 2008

The Efficiencies of the Bushbuddy

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On my posting below on the subject of LEJOG Cost, Martin asked what appeared to be a simple question about the Bushbuddy. I found myself wri...
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Friday, 1 August 2008

LEJOG: Cost

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How much does it cost to walk from Land’s End to John O’Groats? Well that very much depends upon how you go about it and how long you take o...
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