Old ways, new ways

This is the latest column from Crispin Truman, the CEO of the Campaign to Protect Rural England, in the current edition of The Countryman In last month’s column, I noted Bill Bryson’s important role in our ten-year campaign for a Deposit Return System. So I’m delighted that CPRE is now to be a beneficiary of…

Walkers Stories – Part 4

Van Man My fellow Bryson Line through-walker, Alex Eichhorn keeps bugging me to write a blog post with my story. He’s right, stories are good, but sometimes I like to forget about “lung cancer survivor walks for charity”.    At least the lung cancer part. Instead, I’d like to write about Van Man, AKA Jeff Hedges,…

Walkers Stories – Part 2

Eric Scoones My Bryson Line walk will be powered by an incredible gift that I received four years ago at Royal Papworth Hospital – a new heart. It still surprises me to say that I’ve had a heart transplant because, until 2011, my health had always been great and I was a fit marathon runner.…

Mud, Glorious Mud

Six intrepid walkers (and a dog) met on a cold, but bright, February Sunday morning at Reading station to walk two thirds of Day 26 (in reverse) as a training walk. Today we would follow the Thames path for about 15 miles and the forecast was for cold, but mainly dry weather. Before we set…

Training Notes – Part I

Last Saturday I ventured out alone for a long walk. It was 3 degrees, drizzling and foggy. Just how we expect Scotland to be in June! The walk I was following was 14 miles around Haslemere, starting at the Devil’s Punchbowl and heading East, round the North of Haslemere, through Grayswood, up onto Blackdown Common…

Roads, Redwoods (giant) and Railways

Not all of our walking is going to be in beautiful countryside as evidenced by our most recent training walk. Starting at North Camp railway station just outside Aldershot we followed the Blackwater river some 12 miles north. The first couple of miles were spent walking alongside the A331, a dual carriageway link road connecting the…

Thank you Bill Bryson

This summer, the (mostly) American team from Tanager Wealth Management will walk the length of Great Britain to raise £100,000 for UK charities.  We got the idea for walking the Bryson Line from the American-born author, Bill Bryson, in his latest book, The Road to Little Dribbling. He loves walking and living in the UK…

Majestic Iceland

Majestic Iceland Vestibulum lorem ligula orci, volutpat id aliquet eget! 12 May – 23 May 2016 $2300 + transfers Difficalty: Medium Day 1 Phasellus rhoncus ante nisl consectetur. Lorem ipsum dolor amet glavrida. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Etiam dui libero, tempor quis congue in, interdum eget tortor.…