UK LONG DISTANCE FOOTPATHS

Pennine Journey – Day 17 – 14.25 miles I'm up early, five o'clock, eager to be on my way. I don’t share AW’s sense of impending doom as he reaches the end of...

Pennine Journey - Day 16 - 17.75 miles It has long been a belief of mine that most human beings get a handful of perfect days thrown at them over their lifet...

Pennine Journey – Day 15 – 13.75 miles 9.30am and I'm on the road. The sun’s already high, sky blue but for mare’s tail wisps unfurling far above. Past Lunds...

Pennine Journey – Day 14 – 14.5 miles I've barely walked a quarter mile from my Brough Sowerby lodgings when I'm forced to stop. The stile ahead is guarded b...

Pennine Journey – Day 13 – 11.25 miles I wake to clear skies again, dawn light creeping lazy over the slate rooftops of Appleby, coos of a wood pigeon at an ...

Pennine Journey – Day 12 – 5 miles There’s only so much the map can tell you. On Day 7 what looked on the OS to be a delightful riverside stroll through wood...

Pennine Journey – Day 11 – 20 miles 148 miles in and today was the day I felt like I'd finally found my stride. The shift from walking occasionally to long d...

Pennine Journey - Day 10 - 15.4 miles I wake to sunshine streaming through the curtains. It’s the first time I've seen morning sun since I left Settle nine d...

Pennine Journey – Day 9 – 7.4 miles What a difference a day makes. When I limped into the Twice Brwed Inn last night I was knackered, blistered, wet and done...

Pennine Journey – Day 8 – 18 miles If you were to draw a line graph of today’s walk with the 'X' axis marking enjoyment and 'Y' hours walked it would form a...

Pennine Way – Day 7 – 22.5 miles I chat to Barbara, my B&B owner, at breakfast. Things aren't what they used to be, she says. Barbara has been in the trade t...

Pennine Journey - Day 6 - 15.5 miles Breakfast at The Teesdale Hotel – I am first down – is a fascinating affair, because the waitress is Mrs Jackie Meeson, ...

Pennine Journey – Day 5 – 12.5 miles There is multiple research that suggests people are lonelier in cities – surrounded by millions of others – than in vil...

Pennine Journey – Day 4 – 13.5 miles Variety is surely the spice of the long distance walk. And so far the Pennine Journey, with its magic mix of moor, river...

Pennine Journey – Day 3 – 21 miles Maybe it was the kindness of the weather – despite heavy skies, the threatened rain never came. Maybe it was the distance:...

Pennine Journey – Day 2 – 12.75 miles Was it something I said?, I wondered, as I tucked into the Golden Lion's cooked breakfast. Surely someone would come dow...

Pennine Journey - Day 1 - 7.25 miles On 24 September, 1938 a 31-year-old Alfred Wainwright, still clerk in the Treasurer’s Department at Blackburn Town Hall,...