Day 24: and so back home ... where Life Goes On
So there we have it: I have just walked over 300 miles in 3 weeks, an impressive feat (though I say it myself) and a wonder-full,...
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Day 23: Beal to Lindisfarne
Arriving. Barefoot, like thousands before us. A symphony of seal song over the sands. After church, then, a priestly blessing, of both...
Day 22: Wooler to Beal
Thinking again again about people ... but today, it was about those who cannot do what we are doing. What about those who don't have the...
Day 21: Kirk Yetholm to Wooler
Thinking about people. A couple of days ago I was wondering who has walked this path before me, and today it was more about people who...
Day 20: Jedburgh to Kirk Yetholm
The fields are full of the golden of harvest time, whether ripe and ready, swaying in the wind - oats and barley and wheat - or cut and...
Day 19: Innerleithen to Melrose
St Cuthbert's Way: a traditional pilgrimage route from Melrose, Scotland, to Lindisfarne, England, over the Cheviot Hills. It is a very...
Day 18: Innerleithen to Melrose
I can't possibly paint most of what I noticed today: The calming, comforting smell of honeyed heather. The buzzing bee-presences,...
Day 17: West Linton to Innerleithen
Expansive farmland throughout the broad-long-deep hills of the Scottish Borders provided us with grassy paths for most of today, or...
Day 16: Rest Day
Thankful for my feet. They have carried me over 200 miles in these 2 weeks, with barely a complaint and certainly no blisters! Time to...
Day 15: East Calder to West Linton
A particularly special, pleasurable path over the Pentland Hills today, heather-springy (and midge-busy), cloud-swirl gently following us...
Day 14: Linlithgow to East Calder
Hello, fellow traveller, Where have you come from, and where are you going? What is your story? And what are you carrying? Good questions...
Day 13: Bonnybridge to Linlithgow
Human design: engineering, architecture, aesthetics, practicality, solutions ... That what today was about but I'm too tired to put...
Day 12: Lennoxtown to Bonnybridge
Hello, fellow traveller, Where have you come from, and where are you going? What is your story? What are you carrying? Curiosity....
Day 11: Drymen to Lennoxtown
Much of our route today was on narrow tracks lined with verdant verge plants which spread their stems and flowers, seeds and fruits onto...
Day 10: Inversnaid to Drymen
Ferns have been our most impressive and consistent plant-companion so far, and this image shows some fronds and some shadows. My...
Day 9: rest day in Inversnaid
Today I found that it's a lot easier to schedule a 'Rest Day' into our pilgrimage plan than to actually rest, body and soul. Stopping...
Day 8: Crianlarich to Inversnaid, Loch Lomond
A study in green. Green of every hue and depth and saturation and brightness surrounded us today, from bracken and heather, grasses and...
Day 7: Glen Orchy to Crianlarich
Even hotter today and barely a moment of shade! We took the West Highland Way in the 'wrong' direction for today's route -southwards -...
Day 6: Loch Awe to Glen Orchy
Today's path took us up Glen Orchy from Dalmally on a track that led at times right by the River Orchy, at times rather more distant, but...
Day 5: Taynuilt to Loch Awe
Hot. A gentle freshness in the intermittent breeze off the water, however, keeps us relaxed despite the swelter of the sun, the cars that...