Mayor to Mayor

Day 30 finally arrived. After 29 days of early starts, hotel breakfasts, packed lunches and pub dinners, three tired walkers awoke, knowing that they only had 11.5 miles to walk, from Arundel to Bognor Regis. It is hard to describe the feeling: anticipation, nervousness, sadness that a hard challenge was coming to an end and…

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We’re Coming Home

Day 29. The Penultimate Day. A shorter day. We had a game to get to and only 23.5 miles to complete the Bryson Line. We started in the beautiful village of Graffham right below the South Downs. Our party was again bolstered by friends and returning walkers meaning we were seventeen, including the youngest every…

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Strawberries and Shade

Day 28. Another hot summer’s day with no wind. Ideal walking conditions; for a camel. We had a bit of juggling this morning as half of south Farnham decided to turn out and walk their dogs with us and we welcomed some returning heroes and new walkers. Our team today consisted of the Core Three…

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Buzzing Merrily Along

Day 27 started without an hotel breakfast. Quite frankly we were bored of the Full English (read Scottish, Highland or Northumberland as well) and many of the core walkers decided to hit up Starbucks over the road from our hotel, the Mercure in central Reading, for a strong coffee and a sandwich. It wasn’t quite…

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Oh What a Day!

We awoke to another glorious morning at the Shillingford Bridge Hotel. Sun shining and a wonderful view of the river at breakfast. I was despatched to Didcot to collect the Architect and five walkers from Plutus Wealth Management. I returned to find our group had expanded to include my wonderful friends from home, Anthony and…

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Winding Our Way Down the Thames

  Following an interesting night in a guesthouse in south Oxford and a wonderful meal at the Magdalen Arms we gathered together to head to the Thames Path and the next stage of our walk, today ending in Shillingford. The core three walkers were joined by Hilary, Nick and a returning Ruth together with Tanager…

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Trotting Along with Witty Repp-artee

Oh what a lovely day! On yet another glorious (yawn) English summer’s day we found ourselves in Oxfordshire walking from somewhere to the east of Charlbury and working our way south to Oxford via Blenheim. We were joined today by Greg Trotman and Emily Repp and some of their team from Trotman Repp, a firm…

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Follow the Yellow Stone Road

After a raucous 20 people yesterday, we returned to a more sedate five today. Whilst not the hottest day so far, the humidity meant that it was a more difficult day altogether. We returned to our finishing point yesterday for the start of today’s walk, getting back on Shakespeare’s Way at Cherington, a beautiful south…

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A Frank Kind of Day

It was hot, again. Really hot. And we had a crowd.   Last night, as this blog was being finalised the crew from Frank Hirth arrived in the hotel bar. All ten of them. Suffice to say the blog was posted but your author arrived late to his bed.   Today we set out from…

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Rambling On: Sanguine Walking

After our adventure yesterday evening we spent a restful night at Haig’s Hotel in Balsall Common.  We were very excited as we had Vanessa and her team from immigration law firm Ganguin Samartin (GS) joining us for our day’s walking.   As usual with the Bryson Line, nothing ran entirely to plan. Two of Vanessa’s…

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Best Laid Plans

We were split up last night. Necessity required that we had a 5:2 split between a pub hotel and a B&B – the Waltzing Weasel.  As a result, your author was treated to a fantastic Chinese at The Grouse pub in Birch Vale by his sister in law, Chelsy, who joined us for Days 19…

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Where There’s Smoke There’s Fire

After another evening of swim, sauna and dinner at the Mercure Norton Grange in Rochdale we awoke to news that the fire on Saddleworth Moor had worsened. All of the walkers received messages from friends and families asking if we were close by and were we OK. As it turns out we were close by,…

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