Hello all,I'm in London again and it's warm and sunny. Beautiful. I lay in Hyde Park for an hour with the sun on my face and legs gathering energy to keep walking. I finished the West Highland Way Walk in the rain on Friday. 7 long hard days, 4 were wet , all were cold. I said in the last blog we were to walk on Roman Rds- incorrect , as of course they didn't get there. They were actually droving roads, used to bring the livestock to market. The cattle had shoes ...

Hello everyone, I just lost my one hour creation when tried to post it. Not happy. So this is the abridged version (phew you go, I know!) After leaving London I went to Warwick to see a friend, spent the PM with her. As always it was cold and wet. I walked to Royal Leamington Spa the next AM for a quick look then got the train to Worcester past where we used to visit Adrian's relatives 40 years ago. I didn't recognise a thing. Worcester is a really nice city wit...

Hello from cold London, soon to be wet UK. It is a long weekend with a holiday on Monday so of course it is going to rain! I froze at Hampton Court Palace yesterday. It was a nice train trip there, and I was the first one through to get the audio guide, not at all busy. It's the biggest palace in the UK, being added onto by each new Monarch. Henry V111 was there a lot with his wives. They have a replica crown to see and amazing rooms and furnishings to see. T...

Hello, Yet again the photo is upside down! Not sure why. I am having trouble publishing my blogs after years of it being straight forward. My war tour has finished, with more days of seeing more impressive cemeteries-as in the numbers of dead in them. One German cemetery has 44,000 in it! The losses were horrendous. Yesterday we went to the fairly new memorial of Notre Dame de Lorette which is just for that area of the Somme. It has 579,000 names on it of m...

Hi to all, Well I have finished the Coast to Coast walk across England! It was tiring in the end coming straight after the Mt Blanc walk. We had several days of 32 km walks and lots of 25 km days. After the terrible weather in the first week, then the sad death in his sleep of the oldest group member we had better weather in the 2 nd week , with heatwave/Indian summer conditions some days. The scenery isn't that spectacular in the Yorkshire Moors/Dales so te...