Walks in 2015

During 2015 our wanderings to the north through England continued, with a delightful walk along the Yorkshire Wolds Way in May. This took us from the Humber Bridge (which we had reached on the Viking Way towards the end of 2014) to Filey.

We have walked between Saltburn-by-the-Sea and Filey before (on the Cleveland Way) and in walked July we walked from Saltburn to the mouth of the River Tees near Redcar, then upstream on the Teesdale Way through incredibly varied scenery, from industrial Teesside to the rural delights of Middleton-in-Teesdale. We returned to the area in August, this time staying in a rented cottage in nearby upper Weardale and walking through a section of upper Teesdale (now on both the Teesdale Way and the Pennine Way), past Low Force, Higher Force and Cauldron Snout. From here we made a route of our own, past the Cow Green Reservoir, up to the watershed of the Tees and South Tyne and down the valley of the South Tyne on part of the South Tyne Trail.

I became Head of the Open University's Department of Physical Sciences in April and just before starting my new job we had a lovely holiday walking around Guernsey, Sark and Herm, and thus making progress on the Channel Island Way.

The new job means that I have to spend even more time in Milton Keynes, so I continue to rent Monday to Friday accommodation in the village of Sherington near Newport Pagnell. During 2015 we have completed the Ouse Valley Way, which links Sherington and my proper home of Denver in Norfolk (the photograph was taken at the Denver Sluice Complex). We have also just started to walk the Milton Keynes Boundary Walk, which is lot nicer than it sounds!

Other holidays during the year have included a reunion, back in Durham, with friends made when we arrived at University there in 1975. A mere 40 years later, and a few months after our daughter's PhD graduation at Warwick University, we marked my PhD graduation in a memorable ceremony in Ely Cathedral.

Walks in 2016

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