Tag Archives: walking
Long-Distance Walking Trails in Scotland (Beyond the West Highland Way)
Coming up: pilgrims, paving, outlaws, uplands, abbeys, Arran, signposted wanders, unmarked ch...
On the shoulders of giants: roaming among England’s famous chalk figures | Walking holidays
In the churchyard next to Wilmington Priory in East Sussex, I found a yew so ancient and stooped that its...
‘Walking is the best way to discover offbeat Corfu’: a spring hike across the Greek island | Corfu holidays
The riverside was heaving. Families spilled from cafes. A marching band trooped on to the bridge, their t...
Walking with the weavers 200 years after the Lancashire uprising | Lancashire holidays
There’s a massive hole in the ground at the top of Whinney Hill – a shale quarry that once supplied raw m...
‘You’d be pushed to find a more soul-stirring landscape in Scotland’: walking in Beinn Eighe | Highlands holidays
The waymarked quartzite path glimmers in the sun, flanked by amber-gold grassland. Beyond, one of Scotlan...
Scrambling, walking and swimming in splendid isolation: 75 years of the UK’s national parks | United Kingdom holidays
Before we enter the clouds on snow-capped Helvellyn, I glance back down at Ullswater. The early morning s...
‘Walking in the Lake District drizzle rewired my head’: readers’ life-changing trips | Health and fitness holidays
Winning tip: Lake District walks helped me to switch offI did a circuit of the Old Man of Coniston in the...
In the footsteps of a Welsh borderlands baddie: walking the Mortimer Trail | Walking holidays
In the UK, there is a proud tradition of naming long-distance walking paths after talented reprobates. I ...