We (Anne the author, and Ian often the photographer) have been together a long time now… over 40 years since we met at university in Wales, and we’ve kept coming back. After a very long time working in IT we’ve escaped westward again, abandoning parents, children and grandchildren while we make the most of our post-work gap life.
Rather to my surprise, we seem to have become serious walkers. In 2002 we tried our first Inntravel holiday, in Italy, walking from hotel to hotel with our bags transferred. Since then we have done many more, of increasing difficulty, in France, Spain, Turkey, Switzerland and elsewhere.
In 2014 we spent 15 days walking the Coast to Coast route from St Bee’s in Cumbria to Robin Hood’s Bay on the North Yorkshire coast. In 2015 we walked the Ceredigion coast path, for the first time carrying everything we needed and staying in B&Bs. 2016 was the Two Moors Way from the south to north of Devon. I seem to remember I said ‘Never again’ at the end of that, but off we went again in 2017… this time on the walk that both of us had dreamed of, west from our old home in Oxfordshire to our new home (and beyond) in Pembrokeshire. This was the first homefromhome blog – start reading it here.
In 2018 we walked the West Highland Way, and now we’re tackling the Pembrokeshire Coast Path in fits and starts.
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