Today should have started, as many others, with a two mile walk from Saltley to work along the Grand Union Canal. However, I left the house a tad early, catching an earlier bus. This enabled me to get off a few stops earlier and take a three mile walk to work, crossing the railway and…
Author: kevbaldry
Boring
A very uneventful day, walk-wise. Two miles to work and two miles back. Job done ! Slightly more exciting was that on arriving home, I spied the latest copy of Country Walking on the kitchen table. Flicking through the walks section, I noticed a 9.9km (6mile) walk around Kingsbury Waterpark. I may have to try…
Sunday Socks
Another misty start as I ventured out of the house for another ten miles. This wasn’t going to be anything exciting – it would be a well trodden route to Coleshill, Hams Hall, along the Blythe and back. I selected the next Billy Yang podcast on my trusty iPod and set off, over the motorway…
Last Place
Today, I had a mere eleven miles to cover. With the parkrun accounting for three of these this meant that I only had eight miles to walk beforehand (I can’t walk it after parkrun as I have to take my Mother shopping). I parked up in Westwood Road, just outside of Sutton Park then proceeded…
Country Walk
Today was to have been the ‘usual’ two miles to and from work. I managed the first leg walking from Saltley into work. By afternoon, the weather had improved and we were blessed with a gorgeous sunny spring day. Too good to waste on a two mile walk along a Birmingham canal. At the end…