Over the last 15 years I’ve made a fair number of trips north from Plymouth heading to visit relatives in St Helens or further on for holidays in the Lakes. Not once did I head east of the M6 to see any of the sights on offer in the Yorkshire Dales, this it would seem…
A nice walk around the north eastern side of Dartmoor and one to keep the miles up in preparation for some walking in the Yorkshire Dales. This walk picks off a number of tors, hills and a number of Dartmoor 365 squares including the diddy hamlet of Sloncombe. Starting and finishing in the lovely town…
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 a walk around the Cowsic River, picking up the tors situated around the head of this river. 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 with a good weather forecast, the winds from the east mean that clearer weather will be found on the western side of Dartmoor. Now its not often that this happens, mainly in the winter, but we were going to take advantage of it. The plan was to head for the Willsworthy ranges…
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…
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 definitely one for me. I even try to make a bit of a pilgrimage to the Cox Tor area of…
Our first coastal walk of the year but we managed to sneak one in before the end of January. This is just a simple route from Seaton to just past Portwrinkle (got to love the Cornish place names), with a bit of inland walking to make the route a bit different. The weather wasn’t great…
We’d have some pretty cold weather, even down here in the South West of England. Snow had fallen on Dartmoor and heavy frosts were the norm with the temperature rarely rising above zero Celsius. We set out a little later to allow the road conditions to improve a little, especially around Chagford, meaning we only…
A late start to this walk but with good reason to allow the rain to clear and for some sun to come out. The area around Lustleigh is lovely in any weather, but a bit of sun puts a gloss on the views and the houses here. We started out from Pullabrook car park which…
Mid January and a typical weather day for this time of year, cloud too low to head up high but the odd break in the cloud to give a bit of brightness. As with the rest of the country we had, had a lot of rain recently and I thought a look at the River…
Another day in winter where the weather keeps coming in from the prevailing south west so we headed east of Dartmoor to take advantage of the normally drier conditions out that way. Again it worked out nicely for us and we saw plenty of broken cloud with some sun, plus some heavy showers. We got…
Well 2022 has passed into the annals of history and we all start to make plans for 2023, I will mention some of my plans for this year lower down but for now lets look back at 2022. It started with lots of coastal walks, in fact I’d only done one walk on Dartmoor by…
The second day of the new year and our second walk, I’m pretty sure we won’t continue at this pace (if we do the post updates will be getting a little behind), however its lovely to have the opportunity to get out again. Like Boxing Day the weather was stupendous and it would have been…
First walk of a new year and one to hopefully take us to new places for some new adventures alongside old places with new people for some better adventures. I’m really looking forward to getting out this year and enjoying being out. This walk was done on New Years Day and as I type this…
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