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What a fantastic 12 days of walking!

We did it! In all I reckon there was around 50 different walkers who took park in the opening walk. Ages ranged from 8 years old to over 70. Women massively outnumbered the men, which I think proves what a … Continue reading

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The Games Way opening walk – start times and places

Here is the itinerary for the opening walk of The Games Way. If everything goes to plan (…and what could possibly go wrong?!), this is where we will be walking each day. If you are on Twitter, you may want … Continue reading

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The Games Way route for campers

Don’t panic – this page takes a few moments to display properly Fresh on the excitement of being named as number 3 in Country Walking Magazine’s “12 great walks for 2012″, here is the route broken down into day stages … Continue reading

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Weekend walk and interviewing cattle: Winchester to Guildford

The Walk2012 route has remained pretty stable over the last year or so but regular readers will know that I have had some reservations about certain stages of it. For ages we were struggling in Dorset, trying to find a … Continue reading

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Badgering you again (to win stuff!)

Great excitement in Walk2012 HQ as Felix’s badge machine has arrived! Here it is: As you can see, Felix has been rather busy producing many knitting-focused badges, including a secret collection for her awesome KNITSONIKTM project which is happening next … Continue reading

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Walk2012 – Hants to the finish! part 3/3

St Swithun’s Way works pretty well as a route, but it lacks any kapow! moments if you know what I mean. The Itchen Valley is pretty and then there is a *lot* of farmland to cover which I enjoy, and … Continue reading

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Which way now?!

Decisions, decisions. So far I’ve covered the first three days and the last three days walking. Now it’s the not so simple task of joining the two ends together. It all gets a bit fiddly because of transport. On the … Continue reading

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Weekender day 2: Walton on Thames to Guildford

A full 10 hours of sleep later and I woke up a different man. Barely an ache to be found, I felt revived and ready to get going with day two. Felix was in similar form and after a quick … Continue reading

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Weekender

Back on track with walk 2012 this weekend due to a cancelled social engagement and a bit of luck. This time it’s towards the other end of the walk, starting at Putney and heading south to Guildford, probably stopping over … Continue reading

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