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Recent Walks
- Berwick to the Border, and beyond
- Lowry Trail: Berwick-upon-Tweed
- Collective Nouns: Holy Island to Berwick.
- Remembrance of Things Past
- The Flowers of the Forest: Flodden Field
- Bamburgh: royal castle, aviation museum and a sycamore gap
- Lindisfarne
- A wee horseshoe from Langholm
- Torr Point and Red Haven in 24 degrees
- O’er Burnswark Hill, we cheerily roam’d
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Author Archives: drow 'n smirr
The Deil’s Dike and Auchencairn’s Cairns
9.8 miles 4h 35m 345m ascent Great Hill-White Hill-Auchencairn Height Gawin Moor Cairn, White Hill Cairn, Mid Cairn, Royach Cairn, Auchencairn Height Cairn This walk starts at Loch Ettrick, following forestry tracks to Great Hill, White Hill, Auchencairn Height and … Continue reading
Castle O’er and Bessie’s Hill
6.2 miles 2h 32m 273m ascent Forest walk by the White Esk A simple walk this one, mostly on forestry tracks. There is space to park near Bessie’s Hill and at Castle O’er and I stopped at the former. A … Continue reading
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Samaria Gorge and the twenty-one steps
10.2 miles, 5h 15m, descent from 1233m to sea level. Samaria Gorge, Crete A long tale, I’m afraid, but it was a long day. My pick up was at a pre-dawn 5.45 am. The alarm was set for 5 am … Continue reading
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Στην Κνωσό μέσω Ηρακλείου: A Minoan Morning
Distance: Not much actual walking. Climb: Virtually none. Duration: Left after breakfast, back for lunch. Knossos by bus A journey rather than a walk, and certainly not an epic journey. As I walked from the hotel I left the unreal … Continue reading
Cally Woods: The Last Rosnes Benches
3.6 miles 2h 45m ascent 87m Cally Woods Cally Woods was the setting for the last of our Rosnes Bench outings. There are a number of waymarked paths here and we ambled along the Coronation trail, with a detour up … Continue reading
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In search of Galloway’s Chained Art
4.7 miles 3h 40m ascent 211m Clints of Dromore-Cairnsmore of Fleet NNR The Clints of Dromore derive their name from clints, a Scandinavian term for cliffs, and druim mor, meaning great ridge. They mark the southern edge of the massive granite … Continue reading
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The Jewelled Loch
5.6 miles 4h 45m ascent 160m Kirroughtree Forest Work, a wedding, Arran’s whisky festival and fine-dining in Whitehaven had kept my walking boots idle for several weekends, so it was good to tighten the laces again and feel the crunch … Continue reading
Flowers in June
: Kirkconnell Flow Raised bog, birch and oak wood, scots pines, marshland. Abundant: greater stitchwort, blaeberry, cotton grass, heather but not yet in flower. Plentiful: bluebells and bugles. Here and there: wood sorrel, buttercups, dandelion, … Continue reading
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