Day 41 Llangattock to Llanthony

I slept well at the Hunters Moon. Apparently the bar had been very noisy, with lots of singing. Didn’t hear a thing. I had breakfast with Karen and Paul who had camped in the pub garden and were planning on reaching Hay on Wye today. It was a plan that involved a taxi as Hay […]

Day 40 Offa’s Dyke proper and I reach one million steps

Penny and I walked into Monmouth together this morning before heading our separate ways-she to catch a bus to Hereford and I to buy some sandwiches. I walked over the Monnow bridge under the gate again and followed the Offa’s Dyke signs. The views improved, I walked through fields, then uphill through the woods -no […]

Day 39 Wye Valley Walk continues, with a bit of Offa’s Dyke

Today we did a mixture of Offa’s Dyke and the Wye Valley Walk. We had found yesterday surprisingly strenuous despite the short mileage and decided that today we would avoid as many hills as possible. Our B&B last night was a little eccentric. We had two rooms, a corridor, and a bathroom. And a locked […]

Day 38 Tintern Abbey

Today started off wet. We had to put our waterproofs on to buy lunch. Greggs today, and a flapjack. Our B&B was great. We stayed at The Three Tuns, who normally do food but not last night as they were having a grill fitted. Breakfast however was pretty darn good. Up there with the Best […]

Day 37 I reach Wales

Today started off well. We had had a good night’s sleep in our very comfy beds, followed by a good breakfast (muesli, coffee, scrambled eggs and smoked salmon, toast and marmalade). The sun was shining, the birds were singing, and the paths were clear. We took the Forest Path again before diverting through an industrial […]

Day 36 Back in the saddle, Bristol again

Today I headed back to Bristol, with a different friend, Penny. Matthew drive us back to the Clifton Suspension Bridge and we set off. It was a cool morning and another short day of eight miles. We would be following the Community Forest Path through Bristol. It started off well. We climbed up past the […]

Day 34 and 35 Rest days 6 and 7

I’ve been trying to sort things out here. Washing, finding a spare pair of trousers, checking my route and booking places to stay along Offa’s Dyke. I’ve also bought a new waterproof jacket to replace the no longer waterproof one. I thought I’d give you some statistics. My average mileage, not counting rest days is […]

Day 33 Rest Day 5 Oxford

It was good to be at home. Annoyingly I awoke at 4.30 and only managed another half hour of sleep. Sue, on the other hand, having reached Plymouth where she is staying with another friend, clearly a more relaxing friend than me, slept until 9.30. I was a bit dopey today. Couldn’t quite get my […]

Day 32 Bristol

Today marks the end of the first section of the walk. Four weeks ago Bristol seemed a long way away. Which of course it was, being nearly three hundred miles away. (Cornwall is a very long county.) The first task for today was to find some breakfast. We had a pre-breakfast snack to keep us […]

Day 31 Footpaths: the good, the bad, and the “I’ll just take the road”.

I would like to say that today started with an early morning climb up a misty and atmospheric Cheddar Gorge, but in reality it started with a trip to Tesco to stock up on lunch, and to a local bakery chain, Parsons, to stock up on flapjacks. By the time we started up the side […]