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Slieve Muck, Moal Chobha???s Fort, Veering, Visibility Good
McEff is again let loose in the Mourne mountains . . . Continue reading
Posted in Climbing, Cookery, Environment, Food, Hiking, Mountains, Mourne Wall, Shipping Forecast, Walking, Writing
Tagged Ireland, Mournes, outdoors, WPLongform
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London 5: Butchers, Saints and Sinners
BLOWN on a thin wind around a corner from the Barbican tube station past a private park surrounded by private railings to a place where knights once jousted on a meadow called the Smooth Field ??? which was situated just … Continue reading
London 3: A Cold Wet Walk for Pie and Mash
THE worst weather is wet snow. It saps the spirit and soaks through to the shoulders. When it whips off a river on an easterly wind it stings and sucks life from fingers and feet. Just as well we???re searching … Continue reading
In Praise of Scotch Pies and Carn ?? Chlamain
A man needs sustenance in the mountains. There is nothing finer than a Scotch pie . . . Continue reading
Posted in Climbing, Cookery, Cycling, Food, Highland Clearances, Hiking, Mountains, Scotch pies, Walking
Tagged Cairngorms, Munros, outdoors, Scotland, The Munros
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London 2: Casting Bells, Fighting Fascism, Hanging Pirates
A walk through the East End in search of the unusual ??? and a good pint . . . Continue reading
Posted in Battle of Cable Street, Beer, Food, Hiking, History, Industrial archaeology, Politics, Prospect of Whitby, Ranting, Walking
Tagged London, outdoors, transportation
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Madeira: So Let Me Get Right to the Point . . .
A clifftop path through some of the most spectacular coastal scenery in the world . . . Continue reading
Posted in Cookery, Environment, Food, Geology, Hiking, Mountains, Walking
Tagged Cape Wrath Trail, Madeira
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The Quest for Breakfast Above Loch Lochy
ON the crest of a wet and desolate Cam Bealach, as rain streams in from the north, a desperate man wanders through the mire . . . Continue reading
Posted in Camping, Climbing, Cookery, Food, Hiking, Life, Mountains, Walking
Tagged Cape Wrath Trail, Munros, Scotland, The Munros
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Mount Keen, The Mounth, and a Pan of Polish Borscht
Mountain climbed, you need good food to finish the day . . . Continue reading
Posted in Allotments, Beetroot, Borscht, Climbing, Cookery, Cycling, Food, Hiking, History, Mountains, Walking
Tagged Cairngorms, Munros, Scotland, The Munros
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Bacon, Stob Coire Sgriodain and Chno Dearg
THERE???S snow on the tops and a delicious aroma of bacon drifting through the Highland community of Fersit. For a man who???s just eaten an unappetising pan of muesli made with cold water and powdered milk in a freezing tent … Continue reading
Posted in Climbing, Food, Hiking, Mountains, Walking
Tagged Munros, Scotland, The Munros
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Martindale Fells and the Three-Legged Pig of Prague
YOU think you know your parents. You presume that, after a lifetime of familiarity and togetherness, their lives, their characters and their pasts are so utterly immovable and unchangeable that they might as well be cast in stone. Then one … Continue reading
Posted in Climbing, Cookery, Food, Geology, Hiking, Mountains, Walking
Tagged Cape Wrath Trail, Lake District, Mining History, The Lakes
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A Mountain Ritual ??? Czech Cabbage Soup
A POOL of blue light, a hiss of flames, and the warming steam from hot tea as night closes in and swallows the mountains. Ah, this is the best part of the day. A wintry breeze blows cracked leaves through … Continue reading
Posted in Climbing, Cookery, Food, Hiking, Mountains, Walking
Tagged Lake District, Scotland, The Lakes
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