“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail!” Benjamin Franklin Thirty-five days until I set off and I am still umming and ahhing over a small number of route […]
Have you noticed how maps, guides, books and notes can begin to accumulate into little, and not so little, piles of ‘important planning resources’ over time. My attempt at sorting […]
Legible London On 27 November 2007, the first prototype of a new design of street signage went ‘live’ in the West End of London. Just about every London Borough […]
The Fibonacci Sequence- useful maths for hiking The Fibonacci Sequence is the series of numbers where the next number is found by adding up the two numbers before it. A simple […]
The Geology of Britain an introduction by Peter Toghill “Visitors to Britain are always struck by the great variety of scenery in what is a relatively small geographical area. The […]
Concession Path below Chrome Hill in the Peak District. The only way of approaching this Derbyshire hill from the north west is via this waymarked route. Concessionary, or Permissive, Paths […]
Long distance path GR 131, part of the E7 European long distance path, crosses all seven of the Canary Islands. The section that traverses Fuerteventura is the longest and is […]
Back in August, I wrote about a particular trail I have been completing this year. This was my report on having completed around half of the London Countryway, a ‘forgotten’ […]
Over the winter of 2015/16 I completed the London LOOP. This is the ‘London Outer Orbital Path’ – a 150 mile signposted path that encircles our capital city. It is […]
“In a nutshell, it is a symbol of quality and value” The National Trails Acorn- A standard waymark was adopted for the National Trails in England and Wales. A simple […]
As part of my recovery from Plantar fasciitis I have decided to walk the Ridgeway, west to east, from Wiltshire into Oxfordshire, over one week in May. The trail has […]
Highlighters, which one is best? I had reason to pop into Staples yesterday. While there I browsed the shelves and found these, only two quid a pop. I believe that […]
Three Points of the Compass 