Category: Ridgeway

[I originally posted this in June 2018 but have reposted it to fix the broken image links]

So, it’s all happening now. Three of us have met at Norwich railway station ready for the big  Ridgeway adventure. When I say big adventure, I don’t mean the walk, I mean coping with Bev and her breakfast requirements.

The event has started, with a trip to West Cornwall Pasty at Norwich railway station. I can’t remember whose idea it was.

That’s right, it was Dave’s idea, I remember now.

Well, how delicious. Important to eat healthily on a walking week like this, so this is full of nutrients and tasty pastry.

Lakenheath railway station. I’ve never been on a train that stops here, and apparently it stops on weekends and special days only for the RSPB Lakenheath Fen site.

We’re on the second train of the day, heading towards London Liverpool Street, having changed at Cambridge. Our train into London is running a few minutes later as it’s behind a slightly late Greater Northern service. The conductor announced on our Greater Anglia train “we’re sorry for the inability of Greater Northern to run any service at all”.

From London Liverpool Street we’ll get an underground to London Paddington, and then we get the train to Swindon. There we will meet with the others, who will likely all be drunk already.

[I originally posted this in June 2018, but have reposted it to fix a broken image link]

It’s Sunday morning and today is the start of the annual Hike Norfolk attempt to walk a long distance path in its entirety. Last year it was Hadrian’s Wall, this year it’s the Ridgeway. We’re covering the 87 miles in six days, so it’s a leisurely expedition along what is thought to be England’s oldest road.

Our expedition begins today for three of us on the train and four others who are making their own way there (I think secretly it’s so they can spend more time in the pub). So for three of us we have the excitement of the railways today to get to the tourist mecca that is Swindon, the Las Vegas of the West Country. I’m aware that we might have to fight off holiday makers flocking to Swindon today, but hopefully we’ll get there safely.

There will be several, perhaps hundreds, of posts throughout the week. So many questions, who will win bravest walker of the week? Who will be the most unhappy at their breakfast? What will be the best pub of the week?