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Monday 21st February 2022 After yesterday’s heroic walk to Fleetwood, this morning we had only to go to Knott End on Sea to resume our walk. If yesterday had not been wet and windy enough, storm Franklin blew in overnight. I stepped outside the hotel to get our bottle of milk from the car andContinue reading “Day 171 – Knott End to Lancaster 20.8 miles”

Sunday 20th February 2022 We awoke to the third named storm in the past 5 days. Franklin this time. In order to simplify things we decided to get a cab back to the start of today’s walk so we won’t have to retrieve the car later on. Getting the hotel door open was quite aContinue reading “Day 170 – Warton to Fleetwood 20.6 miles”

Saturday 19th February 2022 Though storm Eunice had abated over night, we wanted to make another early start because rain and snow was forecast. We drove to Preston and left the car at the bus station carpark and got a bus at 8:15 back to the Toll Bar at Bretherton where we had finished walkingContinue reading “Day 169 Tarleton to Warton 21.2 miles”

Friday 18th February 2022 Last night we were pondering what to do today. Having walked through the tail end of storm Dudley we were faced today with storm Eunice which was predicted to be even more severe. Dire weather warnings were in force with advice not to go out or travel. Wales was cancelling allContinue reading “Day 168 – Southport to Tarleton 15.5 miles”

Thursday 17th February 2022 We left home at 07:00, drove to Crosby in two and a half hours and started walking at 9:45. Yesterday storm Dudley blew through, causing train cancellations in Scotland and some power failure in northern England but we escaped unscathed. However, storm Eunice was already in the forecast and threatening toContinue reading “Day 167 – Crosby to Southport 17.2 miles”

Saturday 29th January 2022 This was the final day of this walking session. Extending our walk on Tuesday to include Great Orme’s Head had paid dividends as today’s originally planned 17.6 miles to Crosby was now only 7.5 miles meaning we would be home sometime this afternoon. More to the point, if we had beenContinue reading “Day 166 – Liverpool to Crosby 7.5 miles”

Friday 28th January 2022 Today we were walking from the hotel and so we had about a half mile walk to get back to where we finished last night. I had looked at the foreshore last night and it did not look very promising and there is no path shown on OS maps. So weContinue reading “Day 165 –  Heswall to Liverpool 21.2 miles”

Thursday 27th January 2022 We packed up and left Rhyll behind with no regrets. Arriving at Bagillt we parked at the village carpark and then crossed the road and railway line to get back to the coast. The path was quite easy through a recently “refurbished” nature reserve which brought us to Flint. The castleContinue reading “Day 164 –  Bagillt to Heswall 18.3 miles”

Thursday 26th January 2022 We packed up at the Travelodge in Llandudno and drove to Rhyl and parked in the Premier Inn car park.  We then set off along the promenade as the sun was rising. The end of the promenade was closed for work on the sea defences but the detour was quite shortContinue reading “Day 163 – Rhyl to Bagillt 19.5 miles”

Tuesday 25th January 2022 We were walking from the hotel today and so we had a lie-in until 06:30. We had our breakfast and were ready to start walking 08:30. We called into the Sainsbury Local for the paper and some sandwiches for lunch. It was another day of high cloud and temperatures of aboutContinue reading “Day 162 –  Llandudno to Rhyl 17.2 miles”