2020 is the third year I have taken on the challenge of “Walking the Year”, it started back in 2018 when I decided to walk 2,018 miles in the year and raise funds for the …
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Pinkery Canal and Larkbarrow Farm
It is the final day of this short trip to Minehead and my last chance to get out on Exmoor before returning home tomorrow. On this trip I have been trying to “bag” a few …
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Today I am going to jam about from Exford. It is an area I haven’t walked much before so I am off to explore. I have a rough idea for a route, but it may …
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On my trips to Exmoor I have “bagged” a number of the Ordnance Survey Trig Pillars dotted around the National Park. However, there are still a few on my list to visit, so today I …
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After yesterday’s trip out in the car to Countisbury I have decided that today I will walk from the caravan. I have stayed on this site at Minehead a few times now and done a …
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Yesterday when I met Sarah, my Twitter buddy, at Periwinkle Cottage tea rooms in Selworthy we chatted about walks on Exmoor. A number of the places that Sarah mentioned I had previously visited but there …
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Social media gets a lot of bad press but there are some positive benefits from it. I have accounts with Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, but find that being active on all three is too time …
Continue readingMinehead Harbour
After a week at home I am off with Crosby for a week of walking on Exmoor. Lynnie has decided to stay at home with Dexter and catch up with a few bits in the …
Continue readingMap of My 238 Trig Pillars
For many years a key feature of my walking has been to visit Ordnance Survey triangulation pillars, also known as trig points. These pillars were introduced in 1935 in a project led by Brigadier Martin …
Continue readingMap of Caravan Sites Visited
The interactive map below shows details of the 73 caravan sites we have visited on our travels. By clicking on the caravan you will see a link to my blogs from that site and a …
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