The Fisherman’s Way is a 226.5km walking trail along the southern Portuguese coast that is part of the wider Rota Vicentia network of trails. My youngest brother, Gareth, moved down to the Algarve a few years ago and on my visits out to see him and the family we had often discussed the possibility of
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If you are visiting the Lake District there are few more convenient budget options than the YHA in Ambleside which sits just outside the town on the very shores of the waters of Windermere. Housed in what used to be separate Victorian hotels the hostel offers comfortable accommodation with a well equipped self catering kitchen,
First of all, HAPPY NEW YEAR to everybody, sorry it’s a week or so late 🙂 2025 starts with me in a positive frame of mind after a challenging end to 2024 which saw me undergo major surgery on my leg, the removal of a Basal Cell Carcinoma from my face and a very messy
The West Highland Way is probably the best known long distance footpath in the UK being walked by between thirty five and forty thousand people each year. It’s a fantastic introduction to walking in Scotland passing lochs, mountains and moors and giving a real flavour of the Scottish landscape. I have worked on a dozen
As many of you probably know by now my knees are not the best….Osgood Schlatter’s Disease as a teenager, followed by nearly thirty years of rugby and then a couple of thousand miles a year on foot take their toll. After a couple of years when the deterioration had become more marked and after spending
As some of you may know I recently underwent a fairly serious operation on my right leg (a distal femoral osteotomy since you ask) and this has left me with a minimum of four weeks stuck on the couch as said leg is completely non-weight bearing. As an active person this has inevitably led to
TT Invictus Games Foundation Tham’s company in Borneo The Sandakan Death Marches took place during the last months of World War Two on the island of Borneo where over two and a half thousand Australian and British Prisoners of War were being held by the Japanese. The men had been moved to the island (where
TT website Oracle’s website There can’t be many place names more evocative of wilderness than the Sahara. As a kid looking at the pages of my parents atlases the name evoked images of camel trains, French foreign legion forts and Tuareg warriors swathed in yards of cloth. These were the images in my mind as
I love exploring and adventuring, the buzz of going somewhere new and seeing things for the first time is one of my main drivers to travel and find lesser known trails to walk on but, the reality for me at least, is this isn’t something I can do all the time. Living a peripatetic life
Well, here we are at the end of another year and what a cracker it’s been here at Come walk with me UK. We have spent 2023 exploring walks across the world, leading D of E groups, trekking the long distance trails of Scotland and adventuring in new destinations. We couldn’t have done it without
