Bored of Hiking II – The Solutions

Hello my beloved fellow hikers,

after my call for inspiration about exciting walks around London in my previous blog post, I got lots of feedback that I’d like to share with you. I know that many of my blog readers are living in or around London. So you’d might take advantage of the many comments I got on my blog post or via social media. I tried to roughly divided it into regions (but don’t be too meticulous).

So here we go:

Day trips (with a little longer train journey):

Walks in London
– London Wall Walk
– Thames Path

North West of London
– Cotswolds
– Shropshire
– Oxfordshire

North of London
– Lea Valley Walk
– Peak District via Sheffield

North East of London
– Epping Forest
– River Blackwater
– Northumberland coast path from Newcastle to Berwick-on-Tweed

South East
– Elham Valley
– Wye near Ashford
– Coastline in Kent
– Deal/Dover/Folkestone (edges of the South Downs)
– Walking Festival in Dover Aug 27 – Sep 2: http://www.whitecliffswalkingfestival.org.uk/
– North Foreland from Ramsgate to Margate

South of London
– Toy’s Hill
– Ide Hill
– North Downs Way
– Greensand Way
– South Downs Way
– Stretch between Brighton and Eastbourne (Seven Sisters)
– Sussex Border Path

South West of London
– Surrey Hills with stay in YHA Tanners Hatch
– Greensand Way: Hamstreet near Ashford, Kent to Hindhead
– Leith Hill (2nd highest point in South East England)
– New Forest
– Isle of Portland
– Purbeck on the Jurassic Coast (Dorset)
– Devon

West of London
– Ridgeway
– Ivinghoe Beacon in the Chilterns
– Three Peak Challenge in the Chilterns (Charity Walk) on September 13: http://www.renniegrove.org/support/our-events/chilterns-3-peaks-challenge
– Marlborough

Weekend trips:

Scotland
– Cuillin’s Ridge on Isle of Skye

Wales
– Train via Glasgow: https://www.scotrail.co.uk/
– Brecon Beacons

England
– Lake District
– Train to Penrith → cycle to Threlkeld → climb Blencathra

Rather extraordinary ideas:

– Channel Tunnel
– Trip to Iceland
– Moving North → I might think about this later in life.

Sources to look into:

– Long Distance Walker Association: https://www.ldwa.org.uk/ (Also for walks on disused railways)
– Explore Britain: http://www.explorebritain.com/
– Walking World: http://www.walkingworld.com/
– Walking for Pleasure clubs
– Meetup groups (although I must say, they are too commercial for me. Groups of 40-50 people just to make loads of money. Although there might be exceptions.)

Different approaches:

– get away from reading instructions → get lost/maps/follow signs
– become a tourist in the regions you know already
– do different things in the regions you know (I love photography for example)
– join clubs
– participate in organised events/charity walks

A big thank you to my fellow hikers who got so engaged over this request. Now is the question what to choose from. Although I have admit I’d need to do some further research on a few of these suggestions. But I’ll post about everything that I do of it. Promised!

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