Having spent a lot of my life thinking of going on a long walk, I was finally inspired to do it by Ian Thurman’s Strathmore Arms to Strathmore Arms walk and also Johannes & Beth’s Kungsleden thru-hike, who I met when walking part of that trail in 2015.  

Now was the time.  I left my job, extricating myself from the thick grey ooze of NHS bureaucracy, and headed north for a grand tour of the UK’s finest bog, starting in Edale near Sheffield and ending at the most north-westerly point in Scotland – Cape Wrath.

I made my way from the Pennines to the Highlands at a fairly relaxed pace, with a few adventures on the way: bleeding and barely able to walk by the time I got to Malham,  a stay in a sex themed youth hostel in Edinburgh, some free beer, some free whisky, the offer of drugs on the canals near Glasgow, sun, storms and the threat of sea to shore bombardment on the Scottish coast.  Overall, a great trip.