Loading tweets...6th May 2013 – Beattock to St. Mary’s Loch: 21.3 miles, 3,310 feet “Happy is the man who has acquired the love of walking for its own sake” W.J. Holland – American Zoologist and Paleontologist (1848 – 1932) I’ve had to abandon the walk today. I tried to walk on the right foot this morning. …
Tag Archive: scotland
May 05 2013
Southern Upland Way – Day 8
5th May 2013 – Wanlockhead to Beattock: 20.0 miles, 3,578 feet “My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing” Aldous Huxley – English Author (1894 – 1963) Only a brief update for today, sorry. Today was my least favourite of the whole walk, certainly after the first 10 miles. Up …
May 04 2013
Southern Upland Way – Day 7
4th May 2013 – Sanquhar to Wanlockhead: 8.2 miles, 1,973 feet “All walking is discovery. On foot we take time to see things whole” Hal Borland – American Author & Journalist (1900 – 1978) Although day seven was the shortest one of the lot, it’s had some of the best walking so far. I’d been …
May 03 2013
Southern Upland Way – Day 6
3rd May 2013 – Nether Holm to Sanquhar: 15.1 miles, 2,002 feet “After a day’s walk, everything has twice its usual value” George Macauley Trevelyan - British Historian (1876 – 1962) For once the weather forecast was bloody right. It predicted rain all day and that’s exactly what I got. I heard it start about 06:30 as I was …
May 03 2013
Southern Upland Way – Day 5
2nd May 2013 – St. Johns Town of Dalry to Nether Holm: 14.9 miles, 2,873 feet “One may walk over the highest mountain, one step at a time” John Wanamaker – “A pioneer of marketing” (1838 – 1922) Day five has certainly been the pick of the bunch so far. Not only the terrain I …
May 01 2013
Southern Upland Way – Day 4
1st May 2013 – Bargrennan to St. Johns Town of Dalry: 25.4 miles, 3,099 feet “It is good to collect things, it is better to take walks” Anatole France – French Poet (1844 – 1924) Day 4 I didn’t sleep too good last night. The room was comfortable and quiet, but at about 02:30 I …
Apr 30 2013
Southern Upland Way – Day 3
30th April 2013 – New Luce to Bargrennan: 18.8 miles, 1,809 feet “The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God.” Anne Frank – Diarist and Holocaust victim (1929 – 1945) Two posts in one day, …
Apr 30 2013
Southern Upland Way – Day 2
29th April 2013 – Stranraer to New Luce: 14.0 miles, 1,046 feet “Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves” John Muir …
Apr 28 2013
Southern Upland Way – Day 1
28th April 2013 – Portpatrick to Stranraer: 9.5 miles, 1,320 feet “Of all the exercises, walking is the best” Thomas Jefferson – American President (1743 – 1826) The Harbour House Hotel is excellent. It was quiet and well maintained, having had an obvious recent refurbishment in the area I was accommodated in at least. The …
Apr 27 2013
Southern Upland Way – Day Zero
27th April 2013 – Travel to, and arrival in Portpatrick “I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see” John Burroughs – American Naturalist (1837 – 1921) …