APRIL 2018 WALK EVERY DAY FOR A WEEK CHALLENGE – DAY 1 Bolehill Quarry in the Peak District was my today’s chosen walk for the first day of my April walk challenge. Have a look at my walks in February and March. Luckily, it was a beautiful, sunny and warm […]
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BURBAGE EDGE, DERBYSHIRE
BURBAGE EDGE – LONGSHAW GUIDED WALK Burbage Edge was on the itinerary of today’s Longshaw guided walk. These walk take place every Wednesday and Sunday. Meet up is at 11am outside the cafe in Longshaw. And it’s FREE! No booking required, just turn up. Walks take approximately 2 hours. Appropriate […]
MAM TOR AND THE GREAT RIDGE
MAM TOR – A SPECTACULAR BIRTHDAY WALK WITH PANORAMIC VIEWS Today is my birthday and my friend Natasha joined me to celebrate with this amazing walk in the Peak District. You can see a video from my previous birthday we celebrated in the Peaks here. It was so much fun. […]
TUMBLING HILL
LONGSHAW GUIDED WALK It’s Wednesday which means Longshaw guided walk for me. We did nearly the same route as last time for some reason. But I didn’t mind. I still enjoyed it. I am fascinated how the landscape looks different every time. Today we had remnants of last week’s snow. It […]
MAGICAL PADLEY GORGE, LONGSHAW ESTATE, DERBYSHIRE
MARCH 2018 WALK EVERY DAY FOR A WEEK CHALLENGE – DAY 4 Like on Monday, it was another overcast, rainy day today. I really couldn’t pick a better week for this challenge. But I am determined to do it. I did a 3.75 miles | 6 km walk from Longshaw […]
LONGSHAW TO TUMBLING HILL, LONGSHAW ESTATE, DERBYSHIRE
MARCH 2018 WALK EVERY DAY FOR A WEEK CHALLENGE – DAY 3 It’s Wednesday and I again went for the Longshaw guided walk. These free walks take place every Wednesday and Sunday and are approximately 2 hours long. Meet up is next to the cafe at 11am. We took the path […]
MEDIEVAL STAND WOOD, CHATSWORTH, DERBYSHIRE
MARCH 2018 WALK EVERY DAY FOR A WEEK CHALLENGE – DAY 2 I went to Chatsworth today and walked around Stand Woods. It is a lovely circular walk suitable for push chairs. I’did this walk in January with my boys and the weather was just perfect then: sunny and blue […]
UPPER BURBAGE BRIDGE TO HIGGER TOR, PEAK DISTRICT, DERBSYSHIRE
FAMILY WALK We started our today’s walk at the free car park at Upper Burbage Bridge. It was a very overcast day as you can see from the pictures; not a single hint of blue in the sky. It stopped raining before we set off but it looked like the […]
LONGSHAW TO UPPER OWLER TOR, DERBYSHIRE
LONGSHAW’S GUIDED WALK Today I went to Longshaw for their guided walk again. This was my 3rd time going on a walk with them. You can read about my first walk here and about my second walk with them here. Walks take place on every Wednesday and Sunday at 11am, […]
DOBB EDGE & BARBROOK, CHATSWORTH, DERBYSHIRE
CHATSWORTH HOUSE GUIDED WALK I didn’t have time to plan my walk for today so yesterday I booked the Guided Park Walk via the Chatsworth website. They do short – two hours or long – four hours seasonal walks around Chatsworth Estate. Short walks cost £10 and long walks cost […]
CHILLY WALK IN LONGSHAW, DERBYSHIRE
LONGSHAW’S GUIDED WALK Like last week, I went on the National Trust guided walk in Longshaw with a friend today. The meet up is by the cafe on Wednesdays and Sundays at 11am and the walks are about 2hours long. It just started to snow when we get there and […]
REDMIRES RESERVOIR, SHEFFIELD
FEBRUARY 2018 WALK EVERY DAY FOR A WEEK CHALLENGE – DAY 7 Last day of my February 2018 Walk Every Day for a Week Challenge! If it wasn’t for the challenge, I would probably skipped the walk today. The weather was just awful. Our son had a swimming lesson in […]











