[This walk was completed on the 2nd May, 2025]
I catch the bus to Dornoch (a BUS – yes, I’ve reached civilisation again!) and walk back to where I ended yesterday’s trek. On the way, I pass a row of old cottages, one with a stone set in its garden. An ancient standing stone? A mile-marker? Or a gravestone?
[This walk was completed on Thursday, 1st May, 2025]
It’s been nearly a year since I was last in Scotland, and it is great to be back. I walk though the outskirts of the static-home holiday park at Embo, and head for the shore. A man on a mobility scooter is sitting facing the water… and I can’t resist taking this photograph. What a view!
[This walk was completed on Monday, 27th May, 2024]
The seals are out on the sand banks in the mouth of Loch Fleet. Too many to count. Sunbathing.
[This walk was completed on Monday, the 26th May, 2024]
What a difference a day makes! Yesterday, I walked in glorious sunshine. Today it is dull and rainy.
I cycle back to the spot where I ended yesterday’s walk, and chain my bike up beside a tree.
[This walk was completed on Saturday, 25th May, 2024]
Today is a day of high clouds, bright seas, and intermittent sunshine. Tide is high when I set off along the promenade from Golspie, heading south to a place called Littleferry.
[This walk was completed on Friday, the 24th May, 2024]
Today, I must fill in the missing gap. And, I have a very unpleasant cycle ride along the busy A9, with narrow lanes and a horrible surface to cycle on. Cars and lorries whizzing by my elbow. Frightening.
I head down the quiet lane in Crackaig (the road surface here is terrible too), and stop near the entrance to the campsite by the railway bridge. This is where I finished my walk on Tuesday. Chain up my Scooty bike near a stack of hay bales, and set off back up the little lane towards the A9.
[This walk was completed on Thursday 23rd May 2024]
Today, I’m jumping ahead of myself on my walk – for a very good reason. It is too windy to cycle safely and, without my bike, I have no way of getting back to where I ended my previous walk – in the middle-of-nowhere place called Crackaig.
But, there happens to be a bus service along the A9. So, I can catch a bus to the next place up the coast, a village called Brora. From here, I will be walking back to my base in Golspie.
[This walk was completed on Tuesday 21st May, 2024]
I’ve just finished taking my self-portrait, when a young male hiker appears along the path. I have to hastily remove the remnants of my picnic lunch – and my camera – because I am blocking his way! Take a photo of his disappearing back.
[This walk was completed on 21st May 2024]
It is another cloudless morning. I chain my bike up behind a notice board in Helmsdale Harbour. I’m nervous leaving it so close to a busy car park, but decide to leave it in full view of some nearby houses. Hopefully it will still be here when I finish my walk!
Make my way up to the A9, and follow the road over the bridge. It’s a pretty impressive bridge.
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Incident number: 1216 Response ID: 318,553,250 Date of incident: 23.11.25 Location: Lower Weare, Somerset, the public foot path just by the primary school, 2nd field in, (what 3 words /// lurching.truly.relocated) Status: Single walker with dog on lead on PROW Gino’s story “The first field by the school sometimes has female cows, the next field […]
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Incident number: 1213 Response ID: 317,470,880 Date of incident: 26.10.25 Location: Footpath near the town of Eye in Suffolk, a few fields away from the playing field/par Status: Two people with dog on lead on PROW Holly’s story “Footpath we were following passed through a field with cows in. My husband went in first on […]
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