Handy walking tip

When you are starting out on a walk, check your equipment before you go

 This rucksack looks fine from the front...

...and from the back

 

























...but if I had looked more closely, I would have discovered this strap had been eaten right through...

...."Who me?". Studiously avoids the gaze.

Top tip: Best not leave stuff in the hall on your return from walking. 

How it all began

Here's where this blog started.

At the end of something else.

This is me completing the South West Coast Path in 2011 - all 630 miles of it

This is me near Rame Head (I don't wear the hat any more - sartorial reasons)

It took several years to finish the path: we didn't do it in one go
And we didn't use the train! All on foot.

There are great views all the way. This is my other half looking back towards Torquay

Sometimes the walking was like this (a pause on the very steep ascent up from Soar Mill Cove, South Devon)...

...and sometimes it was like this - glorious views from the top.

But whatever - the South West Coast Path was done.

What to replace it with?

(Or, to be strictly correct - with what should we replace it?)