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Category Archives: Beer
Days Like This, No 25: The Constant Mountains
JUNE 2000: The most noble of plans sinks into dregs outside the Bridge of Orchy Hotel. I’m walking the West Highland Way, and today I’ve hiked the few miles along General Wade’s military road from Tyndrum to the scattering of … Continue reading
Posted in Beer, Camping, Climbing, Environment, Footpaths, Hiking, Life, Mountains, Railways, Walking
Tagged Munros, outdoors, Scotland, The Munros, West Highland Way, WPLongform
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Days Like This, No 17: Sleeping Giants of Assynt
CONIVAL and Ben More Assynt are mountains with majesty. I read an article a long time ago about these northern giants glimpsed in the rays of the setting sun, and the quartzite stones on their summits glowing golden in the … Continue reading
Posted in Beer, Camping, Climbing, Environment, Fish and chips, Food, Hiking, Mountains, Walking, Weather
Tagged Cape Wrath Trail, Munros, outdoors, Scotland, The Munros
51 Comments
Days Like This, No 15: Walking From Penrith to Ravenglass
Backpacking through the Lakes on Vesta Beef Curry in 1978 . . . Continue reading
Posted in Beer, Camping, Climbing, English language, Environment, Food, Hiking, History, Life, Mountains, Politics, Ranting, The Romans, Traditions, Walking, Weather, William Wordsworth
Tagged Cumbria, Lake District, Mining History, outdoors, The Lakes, WPLongform
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Days Like This, No 12: Dawn on Dove Crag
WALKING is a dangerous business. Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov has just been stabbed while walking over Waterloo Bridge. And get this: his assailant used an umbrella with a poisoned tip. We down another round of pints in the Brotherswater Inn … Continue reading
Black Gold, Tan Hill Tea
THERE was a loose plan fluttering about this morning like a threadbare flag above a roadside burger bar. But the wind changed and the plan got blown across fields and was last seen snagged on a fence alongside a ragged … Continue reading
Posted in Beer, Environment, Footpaths, Geology, Ghosts, Hiking, History, horse gins, Industrial archaeology, Mountains, Railway goods wagons, Tan Hill Inn, Teesdale, Walking
Tagged Cumbria, Mining History, outdoors, Pennines, transportation, WPLongform
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Days Like This, No 8: The Five Sisters of Kintail
I HITCH a ride from Shiel Bridge along Glen Shiel. I used to do a lot of hitching but times and attitudes change. People are more wary of strangers these days. Everyone is less communicative. But what the heck. The … Continue reading
Posted in Beer, Camping, Climbing, Environment, Hiking, Mountains, Walking, Weather
Tagged Munros, outdoors, Scotland, The Munros
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Feet of Cley on the Norfolk Coast Path
SHINGLE banks are not the easiest terrain to walk across. And between the north Norfolk village of Cley and the town of Sheringham they stretch for miles. It’s a matter of steer your prow into the wind and start plodding … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Beer, Bronze Age, Environment, Footpaths, Hiking, History, Newsquest, Norfolk Broads, Politics, Ranting, Redundancy, Second World War, Walking, Windmills
Tagged Norfolk Coast Path, outdoors, Wherryman's Way, WPLongform
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Days Like This, No 1: The Aonach Eagach Ridge
THE Aonach Eagach is one of the most exhilarating high-level walks on the British mainland. The ridge forms the northern wall of Glencoe and stretches in a line of imposing crags from the foot of the glen to the pass … Continue reading
Posted in Beer, Camping, Climbing, Environment, Glencoe, Hiking, History, Life, Mountains, Walking
Tagged Munros, outdoors, Scotland, The Munros, WPLongform
37 Comments
Stamford Bridge: A Long Walk to the Last Battle
Walking from York to Stamford Bridge in search of Vikings . . . Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Beer, Footpaths, Hiking, History, Legends, Northern Echo, Railways, The Romans, Vikings, Walking, York
Tagged London, North York Moors, outdoors, Pennines, WPLongform
40 Comments
Walking up the Camino and Down Again
NOVEMBER in the Sierra Nevada. This camino runs from the rio Guadalfeo to Orgiva. It’s a back lane from a river to the centre of a small town. It is steep and long. Cars can be a problem. Goats can … Continue reading
Posted in Beer, Footpaths, Hiking, Mountains, Walking
Tagged outdoors, Sierra Nevada, Spain
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Forever Changing – Broad Majestic Duddon
A walk along the shifting sands of the Duddon estuary . . . Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Beer, Environment, Geology, Hiking, History, Industrial archaeology, Mountains, Second World War, Walking, William Wordsworth
Tagged Lake District, Mining History, outdoors, The Lakes, WPLongform
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London 5: Butchers, Saints and Sinners
BLOWN on a thin wind around a corner from the Barbican tube station past a private park surrounded by private railings to a place where knights once jousted on a meadow called the Smooth Field – which was situated just … Continue reading