Members Adventures

Having wanting to return to Cornwall for many years, I decided, b eing in England last year,  that I would walk the South West Section of the Cornwall Coast Path  from St Ives  to Penzance,  a 7 day walk of 63 kilometres, an average of 11 kilometres per day. Easy, I thought ,  having  regularly  walked longer distances with the  U3A  Hiking group over the p revious 2 years. I booked i nto a  self-guided  walk with a tour company that organised accommodation and luggage transfers and advertised groups of no more than 20 people, and  in May 2019,  set off to St Ives armed with maps, trip guide and a compass and whistle provided by my brother in law who was seriously concerned about the venture!  ( Forget  GPS technology!) However,  arriving at St Ives I disco vered there was no group.  I was on my own,  and on rereading  the trip notes ,  noted the statement “track well marked generally, ju...

In  January 2019 my sister, brother and I decided that we’d like to go on a long-distance walk in the UK. My brother had an urge to walk right across the country, so after searching the map of England we discovered that we could accomplish this in the least distance on the Hadrian’s Wall walk. Unfortunately, my brother had to cancel because of a serious health diagnosis but he wanted us to go and be his eyes and ears. So, in September 2019 my sister and I landed in Newcastle Upon Tyne, made our way on public transport to Bowness on Solway on the west coast of England and began our adventure. We had paid a company to organise our nightly accommodation and luggage transfers so all we had to do was walk, carrying a day  pack. Most people complete the  135 km  walk in six  days,  but we decided to take nine days so that we could take our time and see the sights along the way.  W e walked for a couple of days befor e we saw a very straight  clump ...