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So today is the start of a seven day adventure / challenge walking the entire length of the Ridgeway, an ancient roadway – 87 miles / 140 kilometres. Again walking with an SPR group which has the distinct advantage of transport to the starting point and collection from the finishing point plus your own bedContinue reading “The next 50! Walk 31 – 08/01/2022”

A walk by myself again and starting just a short drive from home. After a bit of map searching I decided to drive to Farnborough which is just off the the B road to Newbury. A village with some attractive housing which I have driven through before on my way to West Ilsley which wasContinue reading “The next 50! Walk 30 – 03/01/2022”

I have been walking the last few days but not a proper walk – I can’t count walking back from Boxing Day celebrations or returning to collect the car the next morning or visits to the post office! So time for a walk to finish the year. I was going to drive but decided insteadContinue reading “The next 50! Walk 29 – 31/12/2021”

How ever much the intention is to go for a walk on Christmas Day in the daylight I rarely seem to achieve it. Not the most enticing of days in the drizzle but Alex and I decided to set off and walk around the edge of Wantage- at least there would be some street lights.Continue reading “The next 50! Walk 28 – 25/12/2021”

A route more or less that I had done before but not included amongst these blogs. Starting with meeting at White Horse Hill Car Park. Due to Covid rates being very high in London Alex and Pete had decided not to swop between homes over Christmas so this was a meet up. Not just withContinue reading “The next 50! Walk 27 – 23/12/2021”

Another even earlier start today – Millets Farm for 06.00 – I’m very rarely up and driving for this time of the morning! Off to. Rhossili in South Wales today, setting off in the dark. Annie has brought her husband along and there are two new faces for our group today. Bit of a dozeContinue reading “The next 50! Walk 26 – 16/12/2021”

Something completely different today and started at Millets Farm at 07.00, ready, well almost for the drive down to Weymouth and our walk on Portland Bill. Steve is leading today and Annie and myself are joined by two other ladies, for Betty it is her first walk with the group. We park in the visitorsContinue reading “The next 50! Walk 25 – 14/12/2021”

So more of us today, the core three plus Jennie who had now recovered from Wednesday. Richard who was hoping that it would be shorter than Monday’s walk and Phil, a part time vicar and geography teacher. A slightly later start as our driver had an appointment first thing and back to the end ofContinue reading “The next 50! Walk 24 – 10/12/2021”

So back to Menmarsh Guide Post – only the three of us again. We had to start a little later today, but at least the journey to the start of our route was quicker than the nightmare we had had the previous evening getting back around Oxford. By mutual agreement the short section travelled inContinue reading “The next 50! Walk 23 – 09/12/2021”

We have Jennie with us again today and I’m not sure she had realised that this was going to be the longest day! It turned out to be 25.63 km and not surprisingly we finished more or less in the dark. So setting off from Millets at 8.30 we had a more straightforward journey asContinue reading “The next 50! Walk 22- 08/12/2021”