Fairly uneventful one, really. I didn't take the dog as I was expecting it to be a longer walk than it ended up being, and she's not the youngest dog ever - I've been worried about killing her recently.
Photos here: http://s1015.photobucket.com/albums/af273/mulebeatsdrums/Training%20Walk%206/ No map included this time, I'm afraid - couldn't be bothered as most of it was off-road and Google make that really awkward.
By the way, if anyone wants to join me on the walk for a few hours/days/miles, please do! I'll be glad of the company.
Friday, 23 April 2010
Saturday, 17 April 2010
Training Walk #5
As I type, Photobucket is uploading an album of the pictures I took on this walk. It wasn't the most eventful hike I've been on - in fact, apart from a couple of pheasants having a scrap in a field, and bumping into some family friends who are training for the London-to-Brighton bike ride, it was hugely uneventful.
The route is shown on a map on the Photobucket page, and it amounted to roughly 7.6 miles (or 12.2km if you prefer) - I say roughly because Google maps inexplicably gave me a combination of imperial and metric measurements.
Not much more to it than that. All the explanation needed for the photos is on the PB page: http://pbckt.com/aL.OLKlN
If anybody wants to lend me a rucksack for the trip, I'd be most grateful.
The route is shown on a map on the Photobucket page, and it amounted to roughly 7.6 miles (or 12.2km if you prefer) - I say roughly because Google maps inexplicably gave me a combination of imperial and metric measurements.
Not much more to it than that. All the explanation needed for the photos is on the PB page: http://pbckt.com/aL.OLKlN
If anybody wants to lend me a rucksack for the trip, I'd be most grateful.
Saturday, 10 April 2010
Why a new blog, Julez?
. . . is what you may well be asking if you are a reader of my other kind-of-regular-but-not-as-regular-as-I'd-like blog Julez's Unexpected Gap Year. Well, my last last post to date on that blog said that I'd had a . . . "fabbo idea" was the terminology I think I used. Well, I decided that instead of cluttering up my other blog with stuff about this idea, I'd make it into a new blog.
If you are a follower of mine on Twitter, then you may have noticed me tweeting about "training walks", and you may have wondered what I was on about. Equally, you may not care, in which case why are you reading now?
Well, now all is to be revealed:
Inspired by (among other things) Into The Wild, lyrics from numerous songs mostly by Frank Turner, Eddie Izzard running all those marathons, and the concept of geohashing, - and by being bored with sitting on my posterior all day long - I have decided to go for a Walk. Note the capital W.
Yes, the idea is to leave my house earlyish one morning, and walk around England, staying at Youth Hostels (and people's houses - if you live somewhere not near me, expect contact from me at some point). I'm preparing a route at the moment, using the marvel that is Google maps, and the YHA's maps (which you can't access outside their website - very frustrating). At the moment I don't know how far I'm going to be able to get, so I've only planned as far as Bristol via some lovely locations on the way, but hopefully I'll get a bit more than that out of it.
My plan is to publish my map and send out tweets from my phone on the way, as well as (hopefully) a short blog each night for the non-twits amongst you. I'm about to try being very technological and sort out a hashtag box on this page (incidentally, the hashtag will be #julezwalks) so you can have everything in one place.
That's enough nattering from me for now I think. I hope you're all vaguely excited for me :)
If you are a follower of mine on Twitter, then you may have noticed me tweeting about "training walks", and you may have wondered what I was on about. Equally, you may not care, in which case why are you reading now?
Well, now all is to be revealed:
Inspired by (among other things) Into The Wild, lyrics from numerous songs mostly by Frank Turner, Eddie Izzard running all those marathons, and the concept of geohashing, - and by being bored with sitting on my posterior all day long - I have decided to go for a Walk. Note the capital W.
Yes, the idea is to leave my house earlyish one morning, and walk around England, staying at Youth Hostels (and people's houses - if you live somewhere not near me, expect contact from me at some point). I'm preparing a route at the moment, using the marvel that is Google maps, and the YHA's maps (which you can't access outside their website - very frustrating). At the moment I don't know how far I'm going to be able to get, so I've only planned as far as Bristol via some lovely locations on the way, but hopefully I'll get a bit more than that out of it.
My plan is to publish my map and send out tweets from my phone on the way, as well as (hopefully) a short blog each night for the non-twits amongst you. I'm about to try being very technological and sort out a hashtag box on this page (incidentally, the hashtag will be #julezwalks) so you can have everything in one place.
That's enough nattering from me for now I think. I hope you're all vaguely excited for me :)
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