Walking Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/walking/ Tales from a down-shifted family - Making the most of modest means in West Wales Thu, 07 Dec 2023 14:41:42 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-favicon-160x160.jpg Walking Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/walking/ 32 32 2696646 A Stroll in the Hills https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2023/12/a-stroll-in-the-hills/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2023/12/a-stroll-in-the-hills/#respond Thu, 07 Dec 2023 14:41:37 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=41424 It’s not all about the highest peaks and the most difficult terrain, sometimes it’s nice just to get out for a stroll in the hills as well. Especially when recovering from a major bout of lurgy. So, that’s what I did on Tuesday this week as it looked like the nicest day of the week....

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2023/12/a-stroll-in-the-hills/feed/ 0 41424 Me on the Nantlle Ridge https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2023/03/me-on-the-nantlle-ridge/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2023/03/me-on-the-nantlle-ridge/#respond Wed, 29 Mar 2023 09:18:00 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=39075 There weren’t many photos of me in my recent post about our scramble along the Nantlle Ridge. That’s because when I took photos they were of the scenery or of Rhys. I’ve not had some photos from Rhys’s camera which had a few of me, so here they are.

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2023/03/me-on-the-nantlle-ridge/feed/ 0 39075 A New Ridge – The Nantlle Ridge https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2023/03/a-new-ridge-the-nantlle-ridge/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2023/03/a-new-ridge-the-nantlle-ridge/#comments Tue, 28 Mar 2023 11:11:51 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=39051 After paddling a new river on Sunday, I had planned to walk a new ridge on Monday. I’d been a little under the weather with a cold on Sunday, the kayaking didn’t really help matters but it had been fairly relaxed so I don’t think it did any harm. I was still full of cold...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2023/03/a-new-ridge-the-nantlle-ridge/feed/ 1 39051 Pushing the Limits of the land https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2021/01/pushing-the-limits-of-the-land/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2021/01/pushing-the-limits-of-the-land/#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2021 16:40:29 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=35665 I had a busy day today but did manage to finish work on time. I therefore headed out for a nice walk along the beach and ended up pushing the limits of the land. The weather was grey, misty and damp and my walk happened to coincide with low tide. It was a fairly big...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/01/new-year-weekend-away/feed/ 0 23643 Dolgellau Activity Weekend https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/10/dolgellau-activity-weekend/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/10/dolgellau-activity-weekend/#comments Mon, 17 Oct 2016 12:39:39 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=23141 My friend Dennis had organised an activity weekend not far from us just outside of Dolgellau. It was intended to be a fairly informal affair. Basically the call put out via Facebook was one of ‘we’re going camping here on these date and will be doing some stuff. What we’ll do will depend on the...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/10/dolgellau-activity-weekend/feed/ 2 23141 Welsh1000 Walk – Llanrhystud to Furnace https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/04/welsh-1000-walk-llanrhystud-furnace/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/04/welsh-1000-walk-llanrhystud-furnace/#comments Sat, 16 Apr 2016 15:08:17 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=21665 My Coast Path capers all started when I signed up to do the Welsh1000 Walk, a charity event to raise money for the Alzheimer’s Society. I initially showed an interest in doing the event with the Scouts, but somehow ended up being the ‘leader’ for the Llanrhystud to Aberystwyth section of the walk. The idea was...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/04/welsh-1000-walk-llanrhystud-furnace/feed/ 6 21665 Christmas Eve Activities https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/12/christmas-eve-activities/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/12/christmas-eve-activities/#respond Thu, 24 Dec 2015 16:12:00 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=20770 Christmas Eve Swim With Christmas Eve here, it was time to try to tire Morgan out a little so that he’d be able to get to sleep tonight before Santa came. I couldn’t sleep for some reason again so was up early, and Morgan was up quite early too, but we had some plans. So, after...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/12/walking-in-the-rain-in-snowdonia/feed/ 3 20637 Loch Lomond 2015 – Day 3 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/08/loch-lomond-2015-day-3/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/08/loch-lomond-2015-day-3/#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2015 05:22:22 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=20089 After a night of pouring rain and no sleep I got up early and had a coffee and breakfast under our new awning. I had planned to take an early morning walk up Ben Lomond but seeing as the weather had been so terrible overnight and I didn’t have all of my proper walking gear...

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