Leg 26, At 37k an unexpectedly long leg between Pettigoe and the village of Drumquin. My original plan was to get a taxi to the Lough Bradan forest entrance and walk the short 18k leg back to Pettigoe. However, it turns out that getting a taxi firm to even answer the phone the morning after […]
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THE UNDEAD AND BADLY ATTACHED LEGS:
Leg 25, The Ulster Way wrings 32k from the 18k between Belleek and Pettigoe by looping around the loughscape surrounding Rushen Hill. This route is classed by WalkNI as a ”Link” section i.e. it is recommended that you don’t walk it but rather take public transport. However, WalkNI also accepts that there is no public […]
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TOURISTS AND TAXI SPEAK:
Leg 24, another 34k that included the Lough Navar scenic loop and the long trudge back to Belleek. Unlike yesterday today started and remained a bright sunlit day, very pleasing for me but confusing the life out of trees anxious to drop leaves and young geese who could be seen congregating on the many loughs […]
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AIR GUITARS, GATES AND SAINTS
Leg 23, 34k from Lough Navar to Belcoo. All day on forest track apart from a few kilometres of road in the middle and into Belcoo. Hard on the feet and to be honest it’s a bit boring to walk through quite so many identical spruce trees. However, I met only one man and his […]
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TINY FOLK AND QUESTIONS OF MILK YIELD
Leg 22, 34k The Cuilaigh Way, a long loop from near Florence Court to the Marble Arch caves via the mountain top. This was a tough enough walk, half the speed of road waling but twice the fun and interest. It rained all day and the mist was a constant companion so the hoped for […]
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THE BRIDGES OF FERMANAGH COUNTY
Lg 21 today 36k, a road walk section starting at Lisnaskea and ending up at Florence Court. For logistical reasons (I got a lift once more with the ever obliging Sandra and her niece Allie) I walked this in reverse (that is I walked from Floerence Court to Lisnaskea, not that I walked backwards along […]
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PONIES, PETROL AND PARKING
I have been told that I need to give more information and less opinion in my blog posts so that you have some better idea of exactly what specific area I am being rude about. Fair point. So today I hiked Leg 20 of my trek covering the remaining 37k of the Slieve Begh Way […]
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CONCEALMENT, DIESEL AND BISCUITS
This part of the country seems to consist of huge expanses of wonderfully bleak blanket bog, very tiny little dwelling hamlets and infeasibly cavernous churches erected in the most remote locations. Its not without charm – I loved the irony of the “concealed entrance” road-sign a few kilometres west of Aughnacloy. There is no natural […]
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ROAD BOWLS AND HOUSE PROUD COWS:
Long hike today at just under 40k, tarmac end to end except for the penultimate 1.5k into Aughnacloy which was not only not tarmac but was functionally impassable and were it not for the serendipitously fallen tree across the stream I would be at that spot still looking hopelessly forward at the nearby lights of […]
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TOILET ROLL WARNINGS AND BIG SHEEP
This morning I mopped up the final 10k of the Newry Canal Way from Newry to Pointzpass, then it was up to Scarva and a 25k trek west to Armagh. The Canal path had the usual quotient of dog walkers, earnest sweaty couch to 10k iPod joggers, and bobble hatted fat blokes out for a […]
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