Category: England
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A Walk from Sittingbourne to Coyner Creek – Saxon Shore Way
9th November 2025 Reading Time: 5 minutes I messed this walk up! By sheer fluke I put “Central Park – Sittingbourne” into the Google Maps machine and we set off from London in the camper van. When we arrived in Sittingbourne for some reason we decided it would be nice to have a stroll down…
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An Arctic Walk along the Thames?
19th July 2026 Reading Time: 20 minutes I recently organized a short walk alongside the Thames for members of the Arctic Club. It was a wet day with an amber weather warning for thunderstorms. We stopped at various places where I endeavored to find as many Arctic links as possible, some of which were rather…
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Whitby to Inverness. Scoresby Sund Expedition. Leg Two.
24th June – 8th July 2025 Reading time: Oh dear, it’s rather long! Whitby to Blyth via Runswick Bay – 51 nm Grit and I had just attended a funeral in Market Drayton and had to leave the wake a bit early to meet up with Ray who was already waiting on the boat moored…
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Walton on the Naze to Whitby – Gently kicking off the Greenland Expedition. Leg One.
June 2025 Reading Time: 15 minutes This is the first leg of the “expedition” to Greenland. We had taken Sumara for a little test sail to Pin Mill on the River Orwell a couple of weeks earlier and managed to cover the entire boat, the dinghy and the dog in East Coast mud. Nevertheless, everything…
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A Little Walk from Chilham to Dover along the North Downs Way
28th – 30th March Category: Long Distance Walks Reading time: 10 minutes Although arranged in a bit of a hurry and with scant planning, this proved to be a very pleasant long distance walk. I like to plan to go on a long walk just before BST kicks in, everywhere is quiet and it is…
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St Katharine Docks Classic Boat Festival 2024
7th and 8th September 2024 Reading time: Five Minutes Not only did we make it, but we even had a day in hand. It was handy to have some time up our sleeves because I made rather hash of hoisting the “Dressed Overall” flags. They need to be in a specific order. The rumour is…
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The Dash from Lymington to London
Friday 6th September Reading Time: 5 Minutes I had enrolled to enter the St Katharine Docks Classic Boat Festival which is held over the weekend of 7th and 8th of September. What I hadn’t realised was that the last lock-in was on the Thursday high tide. With the wind forecast as easterly, we had task…
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Falmouth to Lymington
Reading Time: 8 minutes 16th August 2024 Malpas to Brixham Sumara had been left on a buoy near to Malpas while I returned to London for a month. The boat was well looked after by our friend Jo. When we arrived to retrieve Sumara, she managed to find us a space on the walk-ashore pontoon…
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Plymouth to Falmouth
11th July 2024 Reading Time: Five Minutes We did eat in the Edgcumbe Arms, but only just. Their excellent Sunday carvery was closed for the evening, but they managed to rustle up some doggy boxes from the leftovers. Mine was rather good but I’m not sure everyone agreed. Paul and I got the last ferry…
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From Weymouth to Plymouth
Reading Time: 15 minutes 28th June 2024 We left Weymouth at 10:30 for the long route via the east of The Shambles and then south of the race off Portland Bill. It was a spring tide so I didn’t fancy the biscuit toss route inside the race. Even several miles south of the Bill it…