Yoredale Way 2022 – Day 2
4th August 2022 – Askrigg to Middleham – 14.2m I feel completely done-in! I’m sitting in the Richard III in Middleham after having walked the 14.5 miles from Askrigg, had a shower, got changed and gone searching for a decent WiFi signal. I don’t know why I feel so knackered, it’s not a particularly difficult […]
Yoredale Way 2022 – Day 1
3rd August 2022 – Garsdale Head to Askrigg – 11.9m I’m feeling knackered right now and it’s not even 9am, furthermore I’ve not even started walking yet! I don’t think I slept at all last night. I’m not sure what happened, but it felt like I was constantly awake – perhaps it was my subconscious […]
Yoredale Way 2022 – Day 0
2nd August 2022 – Home to Garsdale Head It was absolutely lashing it down when I left the house this morning. I’d planned to leave about 8am, but when the rain on the window woke me about 5.30 I decided the potential for long delays on the motorway was too great, so an earlier start […]
Dales Tip-to-Tip – Day 1
2nd July 2022: Ellishaw Hill to Burnsall Bridge – 10.1m Regular readers may remember a post from the back end of last year where I planned a ‘Dales Adventure‘ – today was the start of that adventure. An attempt to walk from one corner of the Yorkshire Dales National Park to the other, along a […]
Speyside Way – Day 7
20th May 2022: Kincraig to Newtonmore – 13.5 miles I met another of my fellow guests last night as I was putting a bottle of water in the little communal fridge in the dining room. He was sitting at the dining table, poring over his map and we got talking about our respective walks. He […]
Speyside Way – Day 6
19th May 2022: Boat of Garten to Kincraig – 13 miles It seems I jumped to premature (and incorrect) conclusions last night, and in my grump I bundled Fraoch Lodge in with the Boat House B&B. The two establishments couldn’t be more different and I apologise for any slight (on the former) that may have […]
Speyside Way – Day 5
18th May 2022: Grantown to Boat of Garten – 11 miles The Ben Mhor Hotel is cheap. It’s £42.50 for a single en-suite room, so almost half the price of yesterday’s room. But that’s the only good thing I can say about the place. It’s cheap because it’s cheap! I’ve only seen one member of […]
Speyside Way – Day 4
17th May 2022: Cragganmore to Grantown – 15 miles Day 4 on a long distance walk is when stuff begins to hurt. I’ve done plenty of two day walks this year, I’ve even done plenty of 6 or 7 consecutive local walks, but they’re only 4 to 6 miles normally and even over Easter, when […]
Speyside Way – Day 3
16th May 2022: Dufftown to Cragganmore – 15 miles I imagine today’s walk report is going to be quite short. Despite the route only being a couple of miles short of yesterday’s, it didn’t hold anything like as much appeal, so I’m not sure what to write about. I suppose I should start with last […]
Speyside Way – Day 2
15th May 2022: Fochabers to Dufftown – 17.5 miles I have the full set, all nine of them: 10, 11, 12, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6. I remember hearing each set of hourly chimes from the village clock throughout the night! It turns out yesterday’s 5:15am was actually a long relaxing lie-in. There’s […]