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Blog postI’ve read all of Work’s novels and without exception thought them classy thrillers, but this one is on a totally different level.
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The story grips, the writing is masterful, and the main character, Mike Donnelly, is oh-so-real. In fact, everything about the book is so spot on I can’t fault it.
Work’s descriptions in places make you pause, go back, and -
Blog postLast month John and I put our walking boots on to hike a section of Canberra’s newest walking trail, the Canberra Centenary Trail.
So-called because it was launched for Canberra’s 100th birthday in 2013 and gifted to its citizens.
Canberra, for those who don’t know much about Australia, is the nation’s capital. It sits in the Australian Capital Territory, a small spot about three hours from the east coast in New South Wales.
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Blog postOur walk across England from the Irish Sea to the North Sea may be over but we’re not in a hurry to leave North Yorkshire.
So we stay an extra day and take the local bus up to Whitby. I’d visited the town in 2000 with our oldest daughter and wanted to show it off to John.
What I found was a town that had been discovered by the masses. In 2000 there were tourists, sure, but it certainly couldn’t have been described as congested. Nowadays I’d say the locals woul -
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Where we spy the North Sea and Whitby, and at the end of a very long day we make it into Robin Hood’s Bay and have a beer to celebrate completing the walk.
At times during this walk it felt very much like we were in a time warp that would see us roaming the countryside forever. It was a rather pleasant feeling, being so totally outside our normal life with only new experiences and sights to fill our thoughts and conversation.
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Blog postWe’re on the downhill slide, figuratively speaking, on our epic UK Coast to Coast walk. We’ve been on the road for 14 days, having traversed the Lake District of Cumbria. We’re now well and truly on the Yorkshire Moors.
My last post saw us leaving Richmond, the largest town on the route.
This post takes us as far as Great Broughton where we spent the night listening to revelers celebrating a 40th birthday party.
Once out of Richmond we set off for a day of tramping thr -
Blog postOver the last few weeks I’ve been recreating a walk my husband John and I did in July 2013. We hiked for 18 days across England, following the famous Coast to Coast walk from St Bees on the Irish Coast to Robin Hood’s Bay on the North Sea coast.
In the last post we had made it to the halfway point having traversed Cumbria and the Lake District to enter the Yorkshire Moors.
In this post I’ll take you from our last overnight stay in Keld, deep in the Pennines, to Richmond on the -
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Blog postWhere we cross the Pennines, get lost and recover with tea and scones courtesy of the farmer’s wife!
Get ready for LOTS of photos.
It takes us three days to cross the Pennines. We leave the Lakes District of Cumbria behind us, cross the M6 and enter Yorkshire, in which we stay for the rest of the walk.
We overnight at Scar Side Farm just outside the little village of Orton, then the beautiful Georgian townhouse, Old Croft House, in Kirkby Stephen (pronounced -
Blog postAre you still with us? Dogging our footsteps across England along the famous Coast to Coast trail?
You’ll be relieved to learn that by this tales’ end we will have left the Lakes District and be on flatter ground.
But only after a harrowing 16 mile slog from Patterdale to Shap.
But that’s getting ahead of ourselves.
First there’s the short 7½ mile leg from Wordsworth’s home of Grasmere. As ever there’s scenery to die for.
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Blog postWe continue into the Lakes District with sometimes gritted teeth
It takes us five days to navigate our way across the Lakes District.
The weather’s at its worst for this part of our walk. There’s sunshine, sure—after all, it is summer—but the rain! There’s plenty of that too.
Take, for example, our second day which took us from Ennerdale to Rosthwaite where, thank goodness, there was a lovely little hotel with a very comfortable room and good grub waiting. But first we -
Blog postEarlier this week I was in Sydney for two days taking location photos for my novel imbroglio.
John and I drove from Canberra—an easy three-hour stretch given it’s a dual highway all the way. Until you hit the city, that is. Then it’s bumper to bumper, stop start, gridlock. I didn’t take any shots while in traffic; I was too busy keeping an eagle eye on the GPS for instructions and feeding them non-stop to John who was driving.
He needed a lie-down and strong coffee before I co -
Blog postAcross England on the Coast to Coast walk part 2 Well … today’s the day.
The first of 18 that see us walking from the west coast of the UK to the east coast. Through Cumbria and Yorkshire. Following Alfred Wainwright’s famous Coast to Coast walk.
It’s been organised for us, so all we have to carry are our backpacks. Luggage will be transported between our nightly accommodation.
We’ve got B&Bs, hotels and farm stays lined up, some in the middle of towns, some -
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