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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Day 13: Bonnybridge to Linlithgow
Human design: engineering, architecture, aesthetics, practicality, solutions ... That what today was about but I'm too tired to put...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 -...
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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...
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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...
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