Category: Day Walks
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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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Inverness to Dunstaffnage -Gearbox Problem – Scoresby Sund Expedition Leg 3
6th August 2025 Reading Time: Fifteen minutes Storm Floris was due to pass over Scotland on Monday 4th August. I was keen to check on Sumara which was moored in Inverness, but all the sleeper train tickets were sold out. The trains on Monday were all cancelled, although Trainline declined to tell me that, so…
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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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A week in Glen Lyon, Scotland
End of May 2023 My friend Ali wanted to celebrate her birthday in some style. The splendid afternoon garden party in a fine London square wasn’t going to quite cut the mustard, so she rented a farmhouse and a lodge in the most beautiful glen in Scotland. I confess that I haven’t been to every…
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South West Coast Path – Penzance to Penberth Cove
22nd March 2023 It was our original intention to go for a few days walking along the South West Coast Path heading eastwards and ending up at Lizard Point, but the difficulty in finding reasonably priced accommodation at this time of the year called for a change of plan. So we booked the camper van…
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Shorne Woods Country Park – Darnley Trial
21st November 2022 I was going to go for a cold swim in the docks with Jannicke but I got so stressed out trying to book in on the Actio app that I eventually gave up. I had wasted so much time frigging about that I was now too late to join the Military Outdoor…
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Chatsworth in the Van
We stayed in a small campsite about 40 minutes drive from Chatsworth. I like these little sites run as a side-line to a pub or farm. This one was called Poplars Farm and seemed to have about 5 hard standing pitches, plus a couple of “cottages”. It cost us £19.00 per night with LX hook…
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Barnard Castle in the Van
18th November 2021 I was up in Oban working on the boat with Tilman – our Parson Russel Terrier – and decided that a 12 hour drive back to London wouldn’t be fair on the dog, or me for that matter. I had managed to break the northbound journey in half by staying with my…
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Crowborough in the Van
31st October 2021 We wanted to go for an autumnal long-distance walk but it seemed diabolically difficult to get any Bed and Breakfast accommodation so we decided to just get out of town in the camper van. As we didn’t want to spend our precious little time driving for too long, we decided to book…
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Ben Lora
As Sumara is locked away in the shed and I am not allowed to work on her until Monday it means that I have some time to fill. As I sat in the campervan I could see a lovely hill across the loch, so I decided to climb up it. I say climb, but it…