My phone flashes — 7:30 am — 13 hours asleep! Sometimes you have to listen to your body. I take the train to Saltburn-by-the-Sea and part company with the Cleveland Way, which sensibly chooses the open moors over the Teesside […]
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Scarborough is demure in the pre-dawn light, the flashing lights and clattering coins of amusement arcades replaced by the silent glow of ornate street lamps. Whitby lies 23 miles north, the port where Bram Stoker’s Dracula first arrived to these
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It’s been a year since I visited Yorkshire. I’m back for a nine-day journey north to my home county of Northumberland. Stepping off the train at Hull, I’m certainly back in the north, feeling a sharp chill in the air.
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Storm Babet is on the way, so I hope to reach Carlisle in two days instead of the three originally planned. Did we always have so many storms or do I notice them more as I’m often hiking? The stainless
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Flakes of ice slide down the tarp. I woke several times during a cold night. Cramp in my left leg did not help — always a bit of a comedy act in the tight confines of a sleeping bag. There’s
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Celebrating day 200 of my coastal walk on Scafell Pike.
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