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Trail talk: Lego Hiker (2016)

Here's a little chap to sit on your desk and remind you of the trials and tribulations of navigation- Lego Hiker was a minifigure released in 2016

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Trail talk: The Medway Valley Walk- day two

The Medway Valley Walk provides a comfortable two day walk from Tonbridge to Rochester with an overnight halt at Maidstone

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Trail talk: The Medway Valley Walk- day one

The Medway Valley Walk provides a comfortable two day walk from Tonbridge to Rochester with an overnight halt at Maidstone

books

A hiker’s library: Village Signs

There has not been a huge number of books published on the subject of village and town signs. This is a look at twelve pulled from my own shelves

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Trail talk- The Swale Heritage Trail

The Swale Heritage Trail crosses the north Kent marshes between Goodnestone and Sittingbourne, visiting medieval churches en route

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Trail talk: Village Signs

Frequently both attractive and informative, village and town signs are often encountered when walking England's paths and long distance trails

books

A hiker’s library: Knots

One or two books on knots and their uses on the hiker's bookshelf will not go amiss. These are mine and there is not a bad volume amongst them

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Trail talk: Britain’s National Parks- A family album

The first of the UK's National Parks was designated 17 April 1951 and celebrated their seventieth birthday in 2021- A Family Album

Skill

Trail talk: knotty years

Three Points of the Compass is looking back on a lifetime of knots. Time to refresh familiarity and learn a couple more

Planning

Trail talk: returning to my ‘not-so-local local walk’

Three Points of the Compass recently took himself out for a days hike around the local hills, slopes, woods and fields- a 'not-so-local local walk'

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Trail talk: Telephone kiosks

A glance at a design classic- the telephone kiosk

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Trail talk: “have you change for the phone?”

Mobile phones were not always the ubiquitous item they are today. Decades ago, we went out armed with either a fistful of coins or a slip of plastic...

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Trail talk: A coastal walk in the wake of vikings and hovercraft

A short wander along the coast from Ramsgate to Sandwich, visiting where Vikings landed and the site of the world's first international hoverport

Skill

Trail talk: “Clues without a Compass”

The first series of Eagle Annuals, featuring comic book hero […]

art

Trail talk: The Sustrans Millennium Mileposts

Following a National Lottery Grant of £42.5m from the Millennium Commission in 1995, a National Cycle Network (NCN) of some 16 575 miles was established and officially opened June 2000. […]

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