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A Sunday Picture - Eastbourne

2012-04-11T14:08:55Z

Ah, coastal walks. Such fun.

Ridgeway - Day 7: Wigginton to Ivinghoe Beacon

2012-05-26T08:04:41Z

As the sun gives way to cloud, we head to the end of our journey at Ivinghoe Beacon.

A Sunday Picture - On the beach at Birling Gap

2012-04-11T14:00:30Z

This photograph was taken at Birling Gap, where there is a beach and some steps down to it. On the grey stone beach you can sit and look at the crumbling chalk cliffs and marvel at it. Then move because a chunk has fallen off.

Ridgeway - Day 6: Princes Risborough to Wigginton

2012-04-30T18:06:01Z

After nearly a year away, we arrive back for the final section of the Ridgeway.

Joining the dots in Wainwrights

2012-05-15T19:29:48Z

Like many walkers, I have a set of Wainwright's guides on my bookshelf. Seven in total. As well as Wainwright's Pennine Way Companion and his A Coast to Coast Walk, there's five pictorial guides to the Lake District.

Options for publishing your own e-book

2012-05-14T12:38:00Z

As you may know, I've published some e-books. Well recently a friend asked me what options there were to do it. So I laid them out for them. And then I thought I'd share it with you all. Because, well, why not?

Behind the scenes of the Rambling Man redesign

2012-05-13T15:18:48Z

If you've been wondering what I've been up to of late, the answer can be found over at Rambling Man where I've just relaunched the site.

A Sunday Picture - Flagstaff Point

2012-04-09T07:25:46Z

But I first walked over the Seven Sisters on a gloomy February day in 2009. It rained. And the coast was still beautiful.

Choosing between three walks

2012-05-12T06:56:51Z

I recently had an email that posed me an interesting question. They were hoping to do a long distance walk in 2013 but weren't sure which to do.

Changes at Rambling Man

2012-05-07T15:12:50Z

If you're a regular visitor here then you might notice some changes to the website. On the other hand, frankly I wouldn't be surprised if you don't.

A Sunday Picture - Caw

2012-05-07T07:38:55Z

I wrote recently about my favourite coastal walk being over the Seven Sisters. And this seemed like a good enough reason to spend the whole of May showing you some photographs from that walk here on A Sunday Picture.

Video - Camp Food Taste Test 5: Batchelor's Pasta 'n' Sauce

2012-05-03T12:20:06Z

Hold on to your camp food because Rambling Man is taste testing again!

A Sunday Picture - Two Men On A Stile

2012-05-07T07:38:55Z

None of this is very important. It's just that I don't have much to say about this photograph.

Limestone Way - Day 2 - Flagg to Matlock

2012-04-24T11:45:24Z

More ice makes for snow progress to Matlock.

I've sunbathed on Kinder, been burned to a cinder

2012-04-24T12:39:50Z

80 years ago, on a Sunday in 1932, 400 people went for a ramble. The Kinder Trespass was defining moment in British walking history.

A Sunday Picture - Smithymire Island

2012-05-07T07:38:55Z

Where Langstraith Beck and Greenup Gill meet, becoming Stonethwaite Beck (and which later meets the River Derwent.)

Limestone Way - Day 1 - Castleton to Flagg

2012-04-11T10:06:48Z

Through dales and limestone, the trail heads off from Castleton.

A Sunday Picture - At The Summit

2012-05-07T07:38:55Z

The year is 2006 and I'm in Norway.

Your order N99388 for helicopter for the weekend

2012-04-14T11:32:23Z

No spam filter is flawless and occasionally something gets through. Most of the time I bin them without comment, but this one caught my eye and inevitably I had to read it.

Limestone Way - Introduction

2012-04-12T21:19:18Z

Having grown up on the eastern flanks of Manchester, not far from the northern borders of the National Park, I'd been in the Peak District loads of times but I'd never walked in the White Peak - only in the Dark Peak. And it was something I thought I should rectify.

(Not So) Grand Walking Plans 2012

2012-05-12T16:33:51Z

It's become a bit of a tradition that at this point in the year, I blog about all my amazing walking plans for the year to come. I say a tradition. I did it in 2010 and again in 2011, so that's how traditions start, yes?

Photos - Limestone Way Photos

2012-04-12T12:20:12Z

Heading through the limestone county of Derbyshire, the Limestone Way heads through the Peak District National Park with some fine views.

A Sunday Picture - Ribblehead Viaduct

2012-05-07T07:38:54Z

But what a location for a railway/walking related photograph. Do I even need to tell you where it is?

Five Years of Walking

2012-05-12T16:35:16Z

There are times when you can look back and spot a life changing moment. And who would have thought that, for me, it would involve a day and a half on the Pennine Way during a particularly soggy part of March in 2007?

A Sunday Picture - All Aboard

2012-05-07T07:38:54Z

There's probably more, but so far I've only done one long distance walk which actually crosses, and I mean here, physically crosses, a steam heritage railway.