#64 LEVELLING WITH YOU

Welcome to LEJoG Day 64: feel that Central Belt around a perfectly flat waist Day 64 pre-amble This is a landmark three-day week for 50FootHead. Perhaps it has to be, to compensate for the lack of variety or excitement in the terrain and scenery. These three days (#64 to #66) will be spent walking two […]

#53 CONFESSIONS OF A NON-PURIST

Bless you all and welcome to LEJoG Day 53 Day 53 pre-amble Right, while first making it clear that I have no wish to mock Catholic sacraments… I wish to make a confession. It has been 11 walking days since my last confession. That is, since the last time I strayed from the official route […]

#37 MY (WET) PATCH

Welcome home to LEJoG Day 37 Day 37 pre-amble Yes, this is my manor (guv’nor). Today’s route included: the classic walk from Dovedale to Milldale, which virtually everyone who’s ever visited this area has probably done at least part of, and which I’ve done more than a dozen times. a long stretch on the Tissington […]

#31 EIGHT MILES FLAT

Welcome to LEJoG Day 31. You might find it exciting. Day 31 pre-amble The Byrds sang ‘Eight Miles High’ back in the 1960s. Today’s stage was eight miles long but there was nothing high about it. Nothing low either. It was flat. Canal walks, fields that didn’t really roll, roads with barely a gradient. The […]

#20 “LO! THE FLAT HILLS…”

Welcome to the Secret Diary of Ben Wainless, Day 20 Day 20 pre-amble Lo! The Flat Hills… Of My Homeland. The (never finished) epic novel written by one Adrian Albert Mole, born 2 April 1967, better known as a diarist and most famous creation of the sadly missed Sue Townsend. Following Day 18, this is another […]

#17 OLD SCHOOL HOSPITALITY

Welcome to LEJoG Day 17… make yourself at home Day 17 pre-amble The title celebrates this place, one of the magic circle of just four B&Bs I have ever given a full 10/10 on booking.com. One of the other two appears here, while the third is a couple of weeks north and the fourth is in […]

#14 TWO LONG BRIDGES

Hello to LEJoG Day 14… Goodbye South West Coast Path Day 14 pre-amble Keeping it simple with the title. This walk started a few yards from the western end of Bideford Long Bridge and finished at the eastern end of Barnstaple Long Bridge. The latter, over the River Taw, takes the main image. The former, […]

#7 MAKING LIKE SEABORNE FREIGHT

Welcome to LEJoG Day 7 Day 7 pre-amble As I write, it’s only three months since Seaborne Freight was all over the British news. But just in case anyone reads this years later, here’s a brief primer. Shortly after Christmas and New Year 2018/19, as the country dragged itself back to work, it was revealed […]