I’m new to this blogging thing, but it seems like a good way to keep you all updated on our upcoming trip…which features walking Wainwright’s Coast to Coast route across the north of  England.

I’ve been counselled about getting the blog up and running early, and practising uploads before we go (thank you, Caroline), but I don’t expect to be posting much until August.

Until then, we are busy working and training (17 weeks to go, if we were counting!).  The walk will take 14 days, starting at St Bees Head on the Irish Sea, walking through the Lake District, across the Pennines and through north Yorkshire to the North Sea at Robin Hood Bay.  We start in the last week of August, so fingers crossed, we will get reasonable weather (no rain is just too much to hope for!).  We are doing it with a company, Northwest Walks, which means we only carry day packs, and everthing else is arranged.  We’ll be in a group of 12.  While neither of us is big on group travel, it means not having to worry about finding the way (the Lake District part of the walk is evidently not well signposted) or make judgements about the weather.

Looking forward to having you follow our adventure!