Hit the North! – Stage 3: March to Whittlesey
This is stage three of the Hit The North expedition. I picked up the trail in the fenland town of March. The route out of the town is very pretty, it follows a path between cottages and gardens with...
View ArticleHit the North! – Stage 4: Whittlesey to Peterborough
This is stage four of the Hit The North expedition. I arrived in Whittlesey and stopped off at the Sunshine Cafe for a fortifying fry-up. Brunch at Cafe Sunshine, Whittlesey After a quick snoop around...
View ArticleHit the North! – Stage 5: Peterborough to Stamford
This is stage five of the Hit The North expedition. This was something of an epic hike, heroic even, especially as night started to fall. I covered 17 miles across the north of the Cambridgeshire fens...
View ArticleGog Magog! Troy! Romans! – a hike in the Cambridgeshire hills
Cambridgeshire may well be one of the flattest counties in the UK but it does contain some hills, small hill but hills nevertheless. Not far from Cambridge we have the Gog Magog hills, see the...
View ArticleSix woods in Hertfordshire (Watton-at-Stone to Cuffley)
Six woods in Hertfordshire Watton-at-Stone I arrived at Watton-at-Stone station at just after 9.30am. So far the morning had been overcast but the sun was now threatening to break through at any...
View ArticleOn the Icknield Way – Great Chesterford to Linton
I walked this stage of the Icknield Way Path expedition at the start of September 2014. This was a short stage, only four miles as the bird flies, seven miles for me as I meandered and committed minor...
View ArticleOn the Icknield Way – Linton to Dullingham
I hiked this stage of the Icknield Way Path expedition in October 2014. I was joined on the walk by two old friends, Herbert and Fred. Shortly after starting out I spotted a tree just asking to be...
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