Tag Archives: travel

267 pm – Blackpool South Beach

I find a Great Wall, and discover Blackpool Pleasure Beach isn’t actually a beach at all. Continue reading →

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267 Warton to Blackpool

I’m hoping today will be easier than yesterday, and I get off to a good start. Continue reading →

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266 pm Freckleton to Warton

A day of constant and oppressive signage. And an encounter with cattle ends in defeat – theirs! Continue reading →

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266 am Preston to Freckleton

‘Purgatory’ I wrote on my map afterwards, to remind myself of my suffering! Continue reading →

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265 Tarleton to Preston

After my thwarted attempt to walk down the other side of this river yesterday, I wonder if the damaged sign is a bad omen. Continue reading →

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264 Crossens to Hesketh Bank

Today my walk gets off to a bad start and comes to a bad end. But the middle section is wonderful. Continue reading →

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263 Formby, Southport, Crossens

I find it amazing that the sea, during its regular ebb and flow, can create so many different textures and surfaces on the same stretch of sands. Continue reading →

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262b Crosby to Formby

What a beach! Acres and acres of empty sand, like a desert. Continue reading →

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262a Crosby Beach

There are 100 of the figures, stretching for 3 km along the beach and extending for 1 km out to sea. The walking dead, Continue reading →

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261 Liverpool to Crosby

That wretched Ferry Cross the Mersey song starts worming through my head again. Then here it comes: the most brightly coloured ferry I’ve ever seen. Continue reading →

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