My brilliant physiotherapist Tamsin in Bakewell told me that I should take every opportunity to rest my leg. So I really have done that...

Another very wet day today. When it was the heat wave I was saying that I’d rather have rain than heat. Which I probably still agree...

Just as yesterday was a bad day for no reason, so today has been a much better day. It didn’t start like that - I woke feeling anything...

It’s been an odd day today. A mixture of all sorts of different places and walking, and although there have been no particular...

It was raining when I woke up, and the forecast said it would rain all day. The same sort of drizzly rain as yesterday, but with a bit...

This was always going to be a tricky day. David drove me to Hurdlow where we finished yesterday, and said goodbye, going back to his...

A difficult night with the heat, but I must have slept a bit, as I dreamt that I was going to walk the Gareth Malone walking trail. I...

5 am alarms are not ones I relish. And starting walking at 5.30 was not what I had planned when I first considered this trek. But needs...

This was a walk in two parts. Because of the heat, and my leg, I needed to reassess the miles from today onwards. I decided the best...

I wasn’t supposed to be walking today, and my leg would have preferred the rest. But in order to give myself a chance next week in the...

I write this blog in the Notes app on my phone during the day. As I walk I take a note or two so that I don’t forget stuff, and when I...

Unwelcome anxiety last night with pain in my leg and concern about the heatwave coming. I have always said that if I have to miss a day’s...

Various changes to the plan today. Firstly, I discovered yesterday that the place I was due to stay tonight had terrible reviews. What I...

This has been a fun rest day, hanging out with friends, ten pin bowling, a lovely meal out and a fantastic cake to celebrate David’s...

I started early this morning to try to beat the worst of the heat. The hotel put together a fantastically elaborate breakfast, all...

Mum and Dad drove me back to exactly where I’d been picked up from yesterday, ensuring that I’d not missed any distance out. Cake...

The last day of the Cotswold Way today, and the heatwave that will hit next week has also started to rev up. So a prompt breakfast this...

It was a leisurely start today, and that was the theme of the day. My apartment had a late check out, and the walk was one of the...

Yesterday something twinged in the back of my right leg, I put it down to stiffness, and cockiness about thinking earlier that I’d had no...

Another of those rather sad and reflective conversations with a B and B owner this morning. I was saying how lovely I thought Painswick...