As part of the package, my Route 66 challenge send me virtual postcards as various milestones along my walk to LA. Today, I received the first for covering thirty five miles. I am ahead of my required mileage of six and a bit miles a day but I need to keep that up all year…
walking
Route 66
With the plague still upon us, I decided that I needed something a bit more challenging for 2021. For the past few years I have taken part in the Country Walking #Walk1000 miles challenge where the plan is to walk one thousand miles in the year. Trawling around the internet I came across End to…
Ghost Town
Birmingham was in the news last week as it entered Tier 4. There were reporters from national BBC standing at the top of New Street, in the shadow of Queen Victoria, telling us about the latest restrictions. The thing that I noticed was how quiet New Street was with very few people walking around. I…
Snow !
I had walked the dogs earlier in the day (4 miles) but took myself out for a longer walk to get the mileage up. The walk started off easily enough with the ‘usual’ walk over the M6 and M42 link before I had to negotiate the muddy top end of attleboro Lane. This path used…
New Year
After a bit of a tumultuous last twelve months, a new year dawns but will it be any better than the last one ? I should think that 2020 will be remembered as the year of Covid as the disease spread across the globe. In an effort to slow the spread, various restriction were put…