Having hit our walking project target of completing 52 different circular walks, we’re revisiting a few from the list – particularly those where the pub lunch options were closed due to lockdown first time around!
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Back in November 2020, in the midst of a national Covid lockdown, we set out to do a different circular walk each week. At some point, this turned into a project to complete 52 different walks (one for each week of a walking year) and to document those walks on this website. Well, given (thankfully) all the disruptions of a return to a more normal life, it has taken us almost two years. But this week we achieved our target!
Continue reading “Sep 2022 – Walking target achieved!”August 2022 walks
Just 2 walks to go to hit our target of completing 52 different local-ish circular walks. We didn’t make much progress in late July or August owing to holidays – a big European rail trip and our usual summer family visit to Ireland. We did notch up a couple of walks in County Antrim, and then our penultimate local walk project outing when we got back… almost there!
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Another break in our weekly walking program during early June, with interruptions including a Killers concert and university open day. But as we get back to business, we have just 4 walks left to hit the target of 52 walks in our big circular walks project.
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April was a poor month for our walking, albeit interrupted mostly for good reasons – holiday, Easter, and family visits. For the first time in two-and-a-half years, we even managed to leave the UK with a long weekend in Amsterdam and Antwerp. We did manage to log a decent (not really circular) walk during a trip to Norfolk, which doesn’t really count towards our local walks project. We got back to that in May.
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After a couple of missed weeks due to work and travel, we got back to the walking project in the middle of the month, just as Spring made a timely arrival.
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Keeping up momentum in our walking project. As the month starts, Covid numbers are falling but still high and the recent slightly stricter restrictions have been eased – hopefully not prematurely. It seems like a good idea to be out in the fresh air (albeit with the occasional visit to socially-distanced pubs!).
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Happy New Year. Hopefully this year, we will finish our project to complete 52 different local-ish circular walks (one for each week of the year). Our first walk this month will be our 38th.
Continue reading “January 2022 walks”December 2021 walks
Into our second year of regular weekly walks. As the month starts, talk of the new Omicron virus variant is darkening the horizon, but the footpaths, lanes, and pubs of Cambridgeshire are still open for business. And we were able to get to Northern Ireland for Christmas, where we did a little urban walking.
Continue reading “December 2021 walks”November – a year of walks
We’ve now chalked up a year of our weekly walking project. We haven’t quite maintained the weekly pace the whole way through, as this month saw our 35th local walk (we’ve also recorded a handful of non-local ones). As life becomes more normal in this phase of the pandemic, there’s more to interrupt our regular walk slot. Thankfully, that’s included being able to travel, particularly to see family – we missed walking earlier this month partly because Joy was doing just that. Still, we’re building up a nice list (which can be seen here) and got back to it later in the month.
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