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Day 51: Catch-up and reflections. Yesterday’s walk got rather passed over in the excitement of finishing the whole thing, but it was a...

Day 50: finally we have completed the big walk - 666 miles and a bit more. We’ve raised over £21,000 for the Motor Neurone Disease...

Day 49. Today we celebrate not the end of the walk (which hasn’t yet happened) but our heroic spouses, Sarah, Sandra, Anne and Clive, who...

Day 48: this is the day when it all unravelled. Our plan was to travel by ferry from the isle of Arran to the Kintyre peninsula and catch...

Day 47: the team today was Brian, Cathy, Neville, Paul and Richard, plus Sandra for the first 8 miles. The weather forecast was...

Day 46 was less relaxed than it should have been; after an easy walk, mostly along the beach, we reached Troon and were just sitting down...

Day 45: we are walking all the right miles, but not necessarily in the right order. The ferry to Arran was supposed to go from Ardrossan...

Day 44: a rest day in Ayr before the final push. We slept, shopped, sock-washed, scoffed a salad (surprise!), swam in the sea (in my...

Day 43: apart from a certain poet, Mauchline has another claim to fame – it’s the place where all the world’s competitive curling stones...

Day 42: you can’t get away from Robert Burns in these parts. He was quite big in Sanquhar but even more so here in Mauchline; he lived...

Day 41: we’re staying another night in Sanquhar (rhymes with anchor – other rhymes are available) in a delightful cottage. It’s a small...

Day 40 was a gentler day after the rigours of yesterday. Setting out from our wee cottage in Wanlockhead, an old mining village, we...

Day 39 was a big one: 21 miles over the Southern Uplands, with over 1,400m (4,500') of ascent. The Southern Upland Way deserves to be...

Day 38 took us further up Annandale to Beattock, whence we will get onto the Southern Uplands tomorrow. The walk was similar in length to...

Day 37 was on the Annandale Way, which seemed on paper a logical way to proceed up Annandale. We got early warning of the challenges...

Day 36 was a rest from walking, but not from labour, as I spent the day editing the Blewbury Bulletin, a monthly task which waits for...

Day 35 was another gorgeous sunny day. As we set out with Kate along the shore of the Solway Firth, the curlews and lapwings were crying,...

Day 34 was the clearest and sunniest day of the trip so far. Much of it was by the River Eden, which remains beautiful from Carlisle all...

Day 33 was a more pastoral day, on the Cumbrian Way to Carlisle. No big hills, but big packs again – gosh, what a difference that makes!...

Day 32: a beautiful morning put a spring in our step as we left Keswick to climb Skiddaw, our second and last 3,000 foot peak. We had...