Snow. In October!
It snowed here in London tonight. Enough for it to pile up on the tops of cars. We even had a snowball fight outside The Abbey Tavern in Kentish Town. Weather like this is unheard of here at this time...
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The Crab and Winkle Line
Just back from the first walk of the year, a test run of a new route for me. Ben, Felipe, and I walked from Canterbury to Whitstable in Kent, along the course of the Crab & Winkle Line, one of the...
View ArticleAdding Google Maps
I’m replacing the hand-made static route maps on the walk profiles with Google Maps. It’s taking me a while to encode each route but they should all be done soon. See the profile pages for The White...
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Front page of The Times!
About a month ago, The Times newspapers approached me for help with running a special series of guided country walks for their readers. So far we’ve been out four times, to four very different...
View Article2010 Calendar Now Ready
I’ve uploaded the new calendar of walks for this year. You can now book a walk anytime up to February 2011. There are a few new routes added, and more to come, which I will be highlighting in posts...
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Upgrading walk profiles
No time to do this elegantly as this is my first time working in Linux. Here’s a screenshot of the new White Cliffs walk profile as it stands now, still in development. The big change will be the...
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SWCP: Weymouth to Lulworth
This photo was taken on the Dorset coast on Friday evening (July 29th), approaching Lulworth Cove on the South West Coast Path fom Weymouth. Thanks to Jan and Katja for helping with the research on...
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Meindl Boot Shoot
Well, this blog has been quiet for a few years, hasn’t it? In preparation for the next big English Country Walks trip — The Western Front Expedition — I went out to grab a new pair of boots. I’ve had...
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The Western Front Expedition, Stage 1: The Tomb of the Unknown Warrior
A few pictures from our walk today, the first stage of 57 on The Western Front Expedition from London to Paris. There were four of us today: my mother Stephanie, my brother Ben, and my good friend...
View ArticleThe Western Front Expedition Album
I would love to be providing daily updates on The Western Front Expedition here, but the fact is I haven’t the time to do so at the moment, so I’ve made all images accessible on this public Facebook...
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