A birthday walk for Linda and a day off work as a bonus. This was a return visit to a brilliant part of the coastal path on the South Devon coast between Bigbury and Mothercombe, plus the lovely village of Ringmore. The walk along the coastal path is a classic rise and fall route, with…
Back on Dartmoor this week having had a mixture of walking in different areas. We’d had some coastal and some Bodmin Moor recently and it was time to get back into the centre of Dartmoor. This is walk 21 of Round 2 of my D365 square hunt and involves L7, L8 and J8 and the…
A change of scenery on this walk, away from the coast and away from Dartmoor. Bodmin Moor was the destination this time and a walk out past Kilmar Tor from Minions (yes a village of the same name as those little yellow characters, only in Cornwall). The area is packed full of mining heritage, antiquities…
We started out on Walk number 20 of Round 2 with a good weather forecast, the winds from the east mean that clearer weather will be found on the western side of Dartmoor, meaning we should be good for squares D4, E4 and E5. Now its not often that this happens, mainly in the winter,…
This was a weekend away in Newquay for my youngest’s birthday, we didn’t really have too much planned with the exception that the birthday boy was going to eat his bodyweight in pancakes for breakfast. That feat was accomplished quickly after a late start and we had a mull over our options, having driven to…
Time for Walk number 19 of Round 2 of the Dartmoor squares, picking up just square R6 on this walk. Those of you that have read my walking blog for a bit will have seen that I quite like a sunset, its rare that I’m up in time for a sunrise but a sunset is…
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