Category: Long Walks UK
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17. Walk Day, Hay-on-Wye
I didn’t feel badly about not walking from Monnington to Hay, but I DID want to get in the full days of walking I had intended. So I decided to walk to the next town (Glasbury) and take a bus back to Hay. I optimistically started out, and the walk was lovely. There *was* an…
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16. Market Day, Hay-on-Wye
You know what I really enjoyed? A day off. I wandered around the market and got some home bakes and cider, then just explored the town a little. Didn’t take a lot of photographs, just really enjoyed the villageness of it. There were so many bookstores — I only visited a very small percentage. 12…
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15. Final Day of the Walk: Monnington-on-Wye to Hay-on-Wye
This was to be my final day of walking, but due to weather, I called it and caught a ride with Tracy when she picked up my bag. But before that, I had a great time chatting with my host and looking at her extensive library. I really do want to read the UK editions…
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14. Day Eight of the Walk: Hereford to Monnington-on-Wye
The hardest day of walking, and the longest. Started off well with a kitty! But no breakfast…it was too complicated to try and get to an open place (which were precious few and far away). Thankfully, I had two Kind bars in my pack! I wasn’t sure what was going to happen about lunch, but…
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13. Day Seven of the Walk: Fownhope to Hereford
I rose quite early to pack up the rest of my stuff (more scattered than usual due to two days in the same place), and broke fast at 7:30 AM. I was really glad for this energizing meal, as I needed a faster pace to get to Hereford in time to see the Mappa Mundi…
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11. Day Six of the Walk: Ross-on-Wye to Fownhope
Even though I considered the Wye Valley Walk to be South Wales, it is about evenly divided in the southern part of the walk between Wales and England. The river is or is close to the border between the two countries. From Hay-on-Wye northwards, it is entirely in Wales. Symonds Yat, Ross-on-Wye, and Fownhope are…
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10. Day Five of the Walk: Kerne Bridge to Ross-on-Wye
This was one of my favorite days of walking, beautiful, just challenging enough, and perfect weather. The walk out of Kerne Bridge started level but quickly presented me with the first, biggest climb of the day. Total elevation change this section 1200 feet, and a compact 5.5-mile walk to Ross-on-Wye. And arrival in Ross signaled…
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09. Day Four of the Walk: Symonds Yat to Kerne Bridge
The walk started out clearly enough, but I had to crawl under a fallen tree just steps into it. As it turned out, the walk began and ended in much the same fashion. Today’s walk was to be 7.5 miles with negligible elevation changed. The latter is true, but the former felt incorrect at the…
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08. Day Three of the Walk: Monmouth to Symonds Yat
I took the Peregrine Path from Monmouth to Symonds Yat instead of the Wye Valley Walk, as I’d heard there was a closure on the WVW. The walk was level and sedate, paved most of the way (could have worn my Allbirds), no challenges at all. Met lovely folks along the way, a couple of…
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07. A Day Off in Monmouth
I planned my walk to have an extra day when I had walked 10 or more miles (by the descriptions in the Cicerone book), and this mostly worked out. I came to believe that my Fitbit was measuring my miles by my stride, which is rather short. (I could have gotten a more accurate reading…
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