The Pilgrims’ Way – Day 2 – Dartford to Wrotham, 32km
After a decent Full English for breakfast, we set off in cool and grey conditions just before 9.30am. According to the Cicerone guidebook, the route for the day was meant to be around 17 miles – 11.5 miles to Otford Pond, then 5.75 miles to Wrotham. We needed to head south following the Darent Valley…
The Pilgrims’ Way – Day 1 – Southwark to Dartford, 36.3km
Kat and her good friend John had talked about walking from London to Canterbury – the pilgrimage of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The idea of John and I doing it together came up, but with Covid delays and whatnot, it was not until March 2022 that we were finally ready to go. This is our tale.…
Cotswold Way National Trail
Soon after finishing the South West Coast Path in the heatwave of July 2021, my thoughts turned to which National Trail to try next. Kat had often talked about doing all 14 National Trails in England and Wales in a single year (!), and had already done: Hadrian’s Wall, Thames Path and the Pembrokeshire Coast…
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