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Hello everyone!
This week's walking programme has a distinctly Eastern feel to it. OK well perhaps Stepney and Southend don't quite have the same glamour appeal as Delhi and Shanghai, but you get the general idea.
So kicking off this week's oriental outings, on Wednesday, Gordon will be taking us on an exploration of some of the lesser known wonders of Mile End and Stepney, including a visit to that most exotic of destinations, the Wetherspoons "Half Moon". If you'd like to join this particularly interesting-sounding adventure, just be at Mile End tube station at 6pm on Wednesday evening.
Following hot on Gordon's heels, and continuing in the easterly vein, on Saturday, Ron is heading off an enormously interesting-sounding hike round Essex. His walk features destinations as diverse as a North Sea beach, the world's longest pleasure pier (though I did wonder exactly how many of them there actually are) and huge, wide open skies. This sounds like the perfect antidote to the Autumn blues, so if you'd like to go and blow the cobwebs away, make your way to Thorpe Bay station for 9:30am on Saturday.
At the moment, I'm walking St Cuthbert's Way, and have just reached Wooler. It's a fantastic walk in the Scottish and English Border country and highly recommended to anyone who likes to get far from the madding crowds. The photo below gives a flavour of the scenes along the way - this was taken on Saturday, just outside Kirk Yetholm.
View from Wideopen Hill - highest point on St Cuthbert's Way
So here endeth the lesson for this week
Enjoy the mists and mellow fruitfulness as the Autumn descends upon us
Adam
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Exploring the lesser-known reaches of the East End
Wed 19th Oct 2016
Event Details:
Event Details Updated
Amended 23/9 with changed finishing place and details of refreshments The walk will focus on Stepney and Mile End. It will end at Stepney Green tube station, not Liverpool Street station. Nearby is the Half Moon - Wetherspoon's of course!
Route
Meet Mile End tube, finish Stepney Green tube station (NB Amended finishing point) We will explore some of the little known corners of the East End, finishing at Liverpool Street station
Contact
Gordon Parker Telephone number 07891 196930
To the end of the line
Sat 22nd Oct 2016
Event Details:
Event Details Updated
Note - more lunch options ARE available - *** Pub stop at 9 miles bar meals available ***
Route
Meet Thorpe Bay station (Dep 08.32 Fenchurch St). Finish Southend Central station (4 trains per hour) A linear walk, offering wide skies, remote sea walls, a North Sea beach followed by a busy promenade and the world's longest pleasure pier. (pier £2 conc. £1)
General Notes
No convenient Lunch stop so bring packed lunch, stay for fish and chip supper at end ***Pub stop at 9 miles bar meals available***
Contact
Ron Williamson Telephone number T:01702 587128 M: 07810 044299 on day
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