On 4 April, I celebrated the (Dutch) National Walk to Work Day by adding a London dimension. The 7.5km walk took an hour and twenty minutes. I delayed my usual departure time from home, because there was simply not enough light, and I did not want to trip over any ropes, clutter or herons onContinue reading “Wandel naar je Werk Dag”
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New year, new route
I spotted a leaflet from the London Borough of Hillingdon, in which four local sites connected with the Polish Air Force were linked into a trail … by bus. I decided that the route should be walked, so I devised my Polish Air Force Heritage Trail to complement the council’s leaflet.
2018 in review
As noted earlier, the highlight of the springtime (hah! setting out at -4°C with a 100kph wind whipping off the Baltic) was the crossing of Schleswig-Holstein from the Bülker Leuchtturm to Büsum on the Nord-Ostsee-Wanderweg. Three days on the Trekvogelpad to the east of Utrecht made for a very pleasant long weekend. The hot summerContinue reading “2018 in review”
Station-to-station along the Chiltern Line
The Chiltern Line runs out of Marylebone station, through John Betjeman’s famed Metroland. The Chiltern Railway Walk links consecutive stations, trying to find paths and parks through north-west London.
Chasing Brunel round West London
Brunel University London celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2016, and I devised a fifty-mile route as a celebration, taking in all present and former campuses in one circuit. Where else would King Canute, Bill Bryson, John F Kennedy and Bob Hope come together in one walk?
