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WALKING BACK THE CAT
Ruminations and occasional guidance on a variety of long distance footpaths. And some other stuff.
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Kate Cheema
May 20, 20225 min read
The Old Way: aimless musings
Reflections In the end it took just less than a year, starting in late April 2021, when I still couldn't book a B&B or take a train...
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Kate Cheema
Apr 19, 20224 min read
Old Way stages 34(ish) to 38: St Martin's church to Canterbury Cathedral
On a blazing Good Friday, the hottest day of the year so far, the good-web-developer-him-indoors, two teenagers (plus one girlfriend) and...
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Kate Cheema
Feb 28, 20228 min read
Old Way stage 28-34(ish): Winchelsea to St Martin’s plain
It seems a long time since I last set forth on the Old Way and looking back on this blog it has indeed been almost four months since that...
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Kate Cheema
Oct 30, 20217 min read
Old Way stages 19-27: Lewes to Winchelsea
First, let me start by saying that I did not walk all the way from Lewes to Winchelsea (the breadth of East Sussex) in one go, but...
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Kate Cheema
Aug 29, 20214 min read
Old Way stages 15-18: Steyning to Lewes
A lovely full English brekkie (no beans) was waiting for me in the bar at the Chequer Inn, more than enough to spur me on towards Lewes. ...
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Kate Cheema
Aug 29, 20214 min read
Old Way stages 12A-13A: Arundel to Steyning
After an ‘eggsellent’ breakfast (poached, served with smoked salmon, hollandaise sauce on an English muffin with a whole pot of tea) at...
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Kate Cheema
Aug 27, 20214 min read
Old Way Stages 9-11: Chichester to Arundel
It feels like an age since I walked the Old Way, despite it being just 2 months back, in June. Nevertheless, the odyssey that was the...
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Kate Cheema
Jun 14, 20215 min read
Old Way stages 4-8 (and a little bit of 9): Titchfield to Chichester
In early July this year myself and a number of excellent chums will be attempting to walk around the Isle of Wight (106km) over two days....
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Kate Cheema
May 2, 20216 min read
Old Way stages 1-3: St Marys Southampton to Lee-on-the-Solent
After I decided in December that I would make the Old Way the long distance challenge of choice for my 40th year little did I know that...
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Kate Cheema
Dec 11, 20202 min read
Introducing the Old Way
Right, so as stated in the general musings at the end of the Greensand Way series of blogs, I’ve set my sights on the ‘Old Way’ as the...
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