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DAVE WALKS LEJOG
Photo diary of a 1,269 mile walk of a lifetime
Land's End to John o'Groats,
15 May – 4 August, 2017
By David Felton
Highlights
Walking blog
dave7057
Jul 31, 20177 min read
Day 78: Shoreline
Tain to Golspie. 23.3 miles. Miles to date: 1184.8. I wake to the cries of seagulls and gold streaked above the Dornoch firth. It has...
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dave7057
Jul 30, 20175 min read
Day 77: Countdown
Evanton to Tain. 17.4 miles. Miles to date: 1161.5. With a walk as dull as today's the most you can hope for is a swift and merciful end...
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dave7057
Jul 16, 20176 min read
Day 63: Up
Kilsyth to Killearn. 20.9 miles. Miles to date: 952.8. Sometimes the accommodation makes all the difference. In Allanfauld Farm B&B I...
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dave7057
Jul 14, 20179 min read
Day 61: Bings
West Linton to Winchburgh. 22.9 miles. Miles to date: 903.3. As the miles and days drop away on the trip north, the things you love – and...
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dave7057
Jul 8, 20179 min read
Day 55: Cuthbert
Kirk Yetholm to Jedburgh. 17.5 miles. Miles to date: 819.6. Today’s walk had something of an Enid Blyton feel. If the Famous Five had...
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dave7057
Jul 7, 201711 min read
Day 54: Scotland
Byrness to Kirk Yetholm. 25.4 miles. Miles to date: 802.1. At around 10.30am in the remote Coquet Valley I passed through a nondescript...
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dave7057
Jul 3, 20176 min read
Day 50: Highest
Alston to Greenhead. 15.7 miles. Miles to date: 737.1. Here’s a fact for you: the market town of Alston, where today’s walk started, is...
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dave7057
Jun 29, 201711 min read
Day 46: Moor
Keld to Middleton-in-Teesdale. 21.9 miles. Miles to date: 678.8. There are two moments each day that give the long distance walker unique...
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dave7057
Jun 23, 20177 min read
Day 40: Wish
Cowling to Kirkby Malham. 17.5 miles. Miles to date: 609.3. You should be careful what you wish for, of course. Yesterday I said to...
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dave7057
Jun 20, 20177 min read
Day 37: Bleak
Crowden (Old House) to Standedge. 14 miles. Miles to date: 557.2. The A62 is a trans-Pennine highway that links Manchester and Leeds....
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dave7057
Jun 14, 201710 min read
Day 31: Grrr
Uttoxeter to Thorpe. 15.6. miles. Miles to date: 492.9. I write this from the hillside hamlet of Thorpe, just ten minutes walk from the...
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dave7057
Jun 12, 20177 min read
Day 29: Trust
Nechells (Star City, Birmingham) to Lichfield. 21.8 miles. Miles to date: 456.8. A grim start. Leaving Star City I headed north on the...
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dave7057
Jun 10, 20177 min read
Day 27: Gongoozling
Long Marston to Knowle. 22.5 miles. Miles to date: 420.5. Today was fast forward. A means to an end. The impatient LeJoger’s dream: a...
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dave7057
Jun 8, 20175 min read
Day 25: Race
Birdlip to Stanton. 21.4 miles. Miles to date: 379.4. There were nearly four seasons in a day. I started out in rain, found shelter until...
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dave7057
Jun 5, 20176 min read
Day 22: Marathon
Old Sodbury to Stroud. 26.7 miles. Miles to date: 342.2. Over the past few days I've been staying with friends and family. First Mark and...
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dave7057
May 31, 20177 min read
Day 17: Battle
North Pellerton to Glastonbury. 20.1 miles. Miles to date: 260.3. I knew today was not going to be great. And it wasn't. It was...
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dave7057
May 29, 20175 min read
Day 15: Wet
Wheddon Cross to Williton. 14 miles. Miles to date: 220.8 I didn’t sleep well. There were three different things going bang in the night....
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dave7057
May 28, 20175 min read
Day 14: Sandwich
Warren Farm to Wheddon Cross. 10 miles. Miles to date: 206.8. One of the common discussion themes among LeJog bloggers is -...
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dave7057
May 27, 20175 min read
Day 13: Inland
Barnstaple to Warren Farm. 22 miles. Miles to date: 196.8. What a difference a day makes. Yesterday I was sweating my way along the South...
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dave7057
May 24, 20174 min read
Day 10: Retreat
Bude to Hartland Quay. 17 miles. Miles to date: 140.6. I don’t know whether it was the benefit of rest, the fine weather, the adventurous...
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