Category: Long Walks Wales
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22. Day Four in Llwyngwril: Wales Coastal Path, Standing Stones, and a Sunset
This was a walk I did in 2018, and I repeated it for three big reasons: the views are beautiful, it starts right outside my door, and standing stones. For a few reasons, the walk four years ago turned out to be really long, like 11 miles. I decided to take it a little easier…
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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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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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06. Day Two of the Walk: Tintern to Monmouth
Fabulous night of sleep, a solid 8 hours (no surprise there). Up nice and early for salmon and eggs on toast. The Wild Hare also made me up a lunch for the journey, cheese and chutney on brown bread and some crisps and fruit. It was a bit misty as I set out, but all…
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05. Day One of the Walk: Chepstow to Tintern
My notes describe the day as “transcendent and brutal.” The path had a huge amount of up, and much harder, down. The walk out of Chepstow was pleasant: it was raining, not hard but persistent. I was very grateful for my waterproof trousers and my Sherpa shell, and also for the waterproof cover for my…
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