Guardian '50 best walks'

Keith wrote

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Has anyone seen the free 'Britain's 50 best Walks' in the Guardian last
Saturday?

It's fine. It'll keep the grockles around the honey pots ;-)

Chris

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Has anyone seen the free 'Britain's 50 best Walks' in the Guardian last
Saturday?

I had a quick look at some of the ones near where I live and the writer
- a Zoe Wiliams - goes on about 'Mount Snowdon', Caernarvon (should be
Caernarfon) and Caernarfonshire (should be Gwynedd). Makes me suspect
she has never been to Wales!

Seemed a fairly predictable set of walks - however one can never have
too many books on walks.
--
Martin Richardson
520/1554 Marilyns - 67% to go 60/89 Donalds - 33% to go
61/211 Irish Hewitts - 71% to go 20/220 Corbetts - 91% to go

Chris Gilbert said:

Keith wrote

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Has anyone seen the free 'Britain's 50 best Walks' in the Guardian last
Saturday?

It's fine. It'll keep the grockles around the honey pots ;-)

Chris

What's a grockle?

David.

Following up to 214Fells

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Quoted message said:

It's fine. It'll keep the grockles around the honey pots ;-)

Chris

What's a grockle?

grockle and emmit are devon and cornwall terms for tourists.
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Chris Gilbert said:

Keith wrote

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Has anyone seen the free 'Britain's 50 best Walks' in the Guardian last
Saturday?

It's fine. It'll keep the grockles around the honey pots ;-)

Chris

What's a grockle?

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Issa stereotypical tourist m'lud. The sort 'oo leaves gates open and
buys kitchy little wotnots with 'present from ...' writted on them.
Actually I know (thankfully) very few people like that, but that's what
they are. A grockle is a tourist.
<mode = off>

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where common sense dictates.

Keith said:

Has anyone seen the free 'Britain's 50 best Walks' in the Guardian last
Saturday? Makes me suspect she has never been to Wales!

And that the writers have never used a bus! Several walks which I know
have good public transport access have comments like "train (sic)
station 10 miles" as the total public transport info. E.g. one from
Lockton, N. Yorks, says exactly that, when in summer the nearest staion
is Levisham (3 miles) and a bus to Leeds, York & Whitby serves the
village all year.

Jon

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Keith said:

Has anyone seen the free 'Britain's 50 best Walks' in the Guardian last
Saturday? Makes me suspect she has never been to Wales!

you dont have a link for that list do you?

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And that the writers have never used a bus! Several walks which I know
have good public transport access have comments like "train (sic)
station 10 miles" as the total public transport info. E.g. one from
Lockton, N. Yorks, says exactly that, when in summer the nearest staion
is Levisham (3 miles) and a bus to Leeds, York & Whitby serves the
village all year.

Jon

Martin Richardson <[email hidden]> wrote

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Seemed a fairly predictable set of walks - however one can never have
too many books on walks.

I would advise caution if reading a book on a walk, especially in steep
places. They are useful for stuffing your sack with for backpack
training though.
--
Gordon Harris

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Martin Richardson <[email hidden]> wrote

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Seemed a fairly predictable set of walks - however one can never have
too many books on walks.

I would advise caution if reading a book on a walk, especially in steep
places. They are useful for stuffing your sack with for backpack
training though.

Hamish Brown famously reads as he walks - he admits to the occasional
crash into gates across the track.

I always carry a book wherever I am.

--
Martin Richardson
539/1554 Marilyns - 66% to go 60/89 Donalds - 33% to go
61/211 Irish Hewitts - 71% to go 20/220 Corbetts - 91% to go